Ecoviolence: Links Among Environment, Population, and Security

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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. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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"These days speculation is rampant about wheter environmental stresses and scarcities are factors contributing to violent conflict within societies. This volume - based on carefully structured case studies from five very different countries - offers a valuable reality check. Ecoviolence effectively demonstrates that the causal relationships between the environment and societal unrest are considerably more complet than is widely presumed." Marvin S. Soroos, North Carolina State University

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Thomas Homer-Dixon is assistant professor of political science and director of the peace and conflict studies program at the University of Toronto. Jessica Blitt is an M.A. candidate at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa and an honors graduate of and former research assistant for the peace and conflict studies program at the University of Toronto.