Ecoviolence: Links Among Environment, Population, and Security

by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Book Overview

Ecoviolence explores links between environmental scarcities of key renewable resources-such as cropland, fresh water, and forests-and violent rebellions, insurgencies, and ethnic clashes in developing countries. Detailed contemporary studies of civil violence in Chiapas, Gaza, South Africa, Pakistan, and Rwanda show how environmental scarcity has played a limited to significant role in causing social instability in each of these contexts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847688704
• ISBN13: 9780847688708
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"