Awards

• Winner of APSA Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section Lynton Keith Caldwell Award 2000
• Winner of APSA Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section Lynton Keith Caldwell Award 2000.
• Winner of Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize of the American Political Science Association 2000 (United States)

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[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. -- Joseph P. Dudley The Quarterly Review of Biology [A] comprehensible model linking environmental scarcity and violence. -- Stephen P. Adamian Boston Book Review Important and intriguing. -- John Stackhouse Globe and Mail 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. -- Nikola Smith Journal of International Affairs

[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. -- Joseph P. Dudley, The Quarterly Review of Biology [A] comprehensible model linking environmental scarcity and violence. -- Stephen P. Adamian, Boston Book Review Important and intriguing. -- John Stackhouse, Globe and Mail 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. -- Nikola Smith, Journal of International Affairs

[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. -- Joseph P. Dudley The Quarterly Review of Biology [A] comprehensible model linking environmental scarcity and violence. -- Stephen P. Adamian Boston Book Review Important and intriguing. -- John Stackhouse Globe and Mail 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. -- Nikola Smith Journal of International Affairs

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Thomas F. Homer-Dixon is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Environmental Scarcity and Global Security and the forthcoming book The Ingenuity Gap.

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