Environment, Scarcity, and Violence / / Thomas F. Homer-Dixon.
The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Edition: | Core Textbook |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 17 line illus., 6 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview
- 3. Two Centuries of Debate
- 4. Environmental Scarcity
- 5. Interactions and Social Effects
- 6. Ingenuity and Adaptation
- 7. Violence
- 8. Conclusions
- Notes
- General Readings on Environmental Security
- Index