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| List of Figures | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Abbreviations | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Aim and Structure of the Book | p. 6 |
| Key Research Concepts, Methods, and Goals | p. 8 |
| Overview | p. 12 |
| The Critical Role of Environmental Resources | p. 13 |
| Sources of Environmental Scarcity | p. 14 |
| The Importance of Context | p. 16 |
| Pivotal Countries | p. 18 |
| Ingenuity and Adaptation | p. 25 |
| Two Centuries of Debate | p. 28 |
| Neo-Malthusians versus Economic Optimists | p. 29 |
| The Distributionist Alternative | p. 35 |
| Thresholds, Interdependence, and Interactivity | p. 37 |
| Social Friction and Adaptive Failure | p. 42 |
| Appendix: How to Read a Systems Diagram | p. 45 |
| Environmental Scarcity | p. 47 |
| Three Sources of Scarcity | p. 47 |
| Factors Producing Scarcity | p. 49 |
| The Physical Trends of Global Change | p. 52 |
| Interactions and Social Effects | p. 73 |
| Interactions | p. 73 |
| Social Effects | p. 80 |
| Appendix: The Causal Role of Environmental Scarcity | p. 104 |
| Ingenuity and Adaptation | p. 107 |
| The Nature and Role of Ingenuity | p. 109 |
| Some Factors Increasing the Requirement for Ingenuity | p. 112 |
| Some Factors Limiting the Supply of Ingenuity | p. 114 |
| Conclusions | p. 125 |
| Appendix: Can Poor Countries Attain Endogenous Growth? | p. 127 |
| Violence | p. 133 |
| Types of Violent Conflict | p. 136 |
| Four Further Cases | p. 148 |
| Urban Growth and Violence | p. 155 |
| Implications for International Security | p. 166 |
| Appendix: Hypothesis Testing and Case Selection | p. 169 |
| Conclusions | p. 177 |
| Notes | p. 183 |
| General Readings on Environmental Security | p. 241 |
| Index | p. 247 |
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Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
by Thomas F. Homer-DixonFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2010-07-01
Publisher(s): Princeton University Press
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