Reviews
"This volume is for anyone with professional or deep personal interests in the relationships of natural resource management to economic development and human societies." --Joseph P. Dudley, The Quarterly Review of Biology, "Thomas Homer-Dixon . . . has conducted extensive research on the links between environmental stress and violence in developing countries. . . . The book addresses the fact that environmental scarcity is not in itself a necessary or sufficient cause of conflict. Homer-Dixon evaluates why some societies are able to adapt well to environmental scarcity while others are not." --Nikola Smith, Journal of International Affairs, "This volume is for anyone with professional or deep personal interests in the relationships of natural resource management to economic development and human societies."-- Joseph P. Dudley, The Quarterly Review of Biology, [The book's] assertion that violence and the environment may be linked, and its conclusion that most big developing countries appear to be hurtling toward more internal conflict, are too important and intriguing to be left to an academic audience. -- John Stackhouse, Toronto Globe and Mail, "[The book's] assertion that violence and the environment may be linked, and its conclusion that most big developing countries appear to be hurtling toward more internal conflict, are too important and intriguing to be left to an academic audience."-- John Stackhouse, Toronto Globe and Mail, "[A] comprehensible model linking environmental scarcity and violence."-- Stephen P. Adamian, Boston Book Review, "[The book's] assertion that violence and the environment may be linked, and its conclusion that most big developing countries appear to be hurtling toward more internal conflict, are too important and intriguing to be left to an academic audience." --John Stackhouse, Toronto Globe and Mail, This volume is for anyone with professional or deep personal interests in the relationships of natural resource management to economic development and human societies., "Clearly written and forcefully argued, Environment, Scarcity, and Violence is an excellent work." -- Biology Digest, [A] comprehensible model linking environmental scarcity and violence. -- Stephen P. Adamian, Boston Book Review, Thomas Homer-Dixon . . . has conducted extensive research on the links between environmental stress and violence in developing countries. . . . The book addresses the fact that environmental scarcity is not in itself a necessary or sufficient cause of conflict. Homer-Dixon evaluates why some societies are able to adapt well to environmental scarcity while others are not. -- Nikola Smith, Journal of International Affairs, "Thomas Homer-Dixon . . . has conducted extensive research on the links between environmental stress and violence in developing countries. . . . The book addresses the fact that environmental scarcity is not in itself a necessary or sufficient cause of conflict. Homer-Dixon evaluates why some societies are able to adapt well to environmental scarcity while others are not."-- Nikola Smith, Journal of International Affairs, Clearly written and forcefully argued, Environment, Scarcity, and Violence is an excellent work. -- Biology Digest, This volume is for anyone with professional or deep personal interests in the relationships of natural resource management to economic development and human societies. -- Joseph P. Dudley, The Quarterly Review of Biology, [The book's] assertion that violence and the environment may be linked, and its conclusion that most big developing countries appear to be hurtling toward more internal conflict, are too important and intriguing to be left to an academic audience., Clearly written and forcefully argued,Environment, Scarcity, and Violenceis an excellent work. -- Biology Digest, "[A] comprehensible model linking environmental scarcity and violence." --Stephen P. Adamian, Boston Book Review, "Clearly written and forcefully argued, Environment, Scarcity, and Violence is an excellent work."-- Biology Digest, Thomas Homer-Dixon . . . has conducted extensive research on the links between environmental stress and violence in developing countries. . . . The book addresses the fact that environmental scarcity is not in itself a necessary or sufficient cause of conflict. Homer-Dixon evaluates why some societies are able to adapt well to environmental scarcity while others are not.