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Environment, Scarcity, and Violence Thomas F. Homer-Dixon (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) Order from the Publisher

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   
   Aim and Structure of the Book
   Key Research Concepts, Methods, and Goals
   
   
2. Overview
   
   The Critical Role of Environmental Resources
   Sources of Environmental Scarcity
   The Importance of Context
   Pivotal Countries Ingenuity and Adaptation
   
   
3. Two Centuries of Debate
   
   Neo-Malthusians versus Economic Optimists
   The Distributionist Alternative
   Thresholds, Interdependence, and Interactivity
   Social Friction and Adaptive Failure
   Appendix: How to Read a Systems Diagram
   
   
4. Environmental Scarcity
   
   Three Sources of Scarcity Factors
   Producing Scarcity
   The Physical Trends of Global Change
   
   
5. Interactions and Social Effects
   
   Interactions
   Social Effects
   Appendix: The Causal Role of Environmental Scarcity
   
   
6. Ingenuity and Adaptation
   
   The Nature and Role of Ingenuity
   Some Factors Increasing the Requirementfor Ingenuity
   Some Factors Limiting the Supply of Ingenuity
   Conclusions Appendix: Can Poor Countries Attain Endogenous Growth?
   
   
7. Violence
   
   Types of Violent Conflict
   Four Further Cases
   Urban Growth and Violence
   Implications for International Security
   Appendix: Hypothesis Testing and Case Selection
   
   
8. Conclusions
   
   Notes
   General Readings on Environmental Security
   Index

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