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Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence
Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence Project Description Key Findings Project Participants Acknowledgments Case Studies* CHINA INDIA INDONESIA * An order form for published copies of these papers can be found at our Publications in Print page. Other Links: Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict ...
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Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity and CivilViolence: India
Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity and CivilViolence: India The Case Study of Bihar, India by Thomas Homer-Dixon and Valerie Percival Summary Despite robust economic growth in the last few years, India is beset by a daunting combination of pressures. Population growth stubbornly remains around 2 percent; the country grows by 17 million people a year, which means its population doubles every ...
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IELRC.ORG - Environment & Conflict Linkages: an Overview
E cological marginalization: Lack of access to resources caused by inequitable distribution forces populations to migrate to ecologically vulnerable areas (demand & structural scarcities leading to supply scarcities) Environmental scarcities do not directly cause conflict Intermediate effects lead to conflict e.g., disruption of institutions, limited/constrained access, constrained agricultural ...
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Sustainable Water Solutions
Useful Links: Home About Us Contact Us Site Map You are Here: Home > Solutions > Sustainable Water Solutions ecotopics Environmental Tips for Individuals Sustainable Solutions Tips on Alternative Transportation and Improving Fuel Efficiency Reducing Personal and Business Junk Mail Pack a Waste-Free Lunch Online Fair Trade Shops ...
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NPG Forum: Sustainability, Part I- On the Edge of an Oxymoron by Lindsey Grant
William Catton for taking the lead in recognizing the contradiction between growth and sustainability and addressing it, in different ways. As the connection between growth and environmental damage became apparent, the conflict became intense. The proponents of growth recognized that the new awareness threatened their fundamental mindset. Conventional Keynesian economists, practicing a ...
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Values beyond price
Aggravation of poverty The dominant paradigm of environmental economics fails to internalize the costs of resource degradation socially and ecologically. Social internalization would imply that those responsible for environmental degradation should bear the costs of it ...
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Now the rich must adjust
There are questions about the world's continuing capacity to produce the food - grain, fish, meat - needed for an expanding population. There has been worry that water scarcities could become dangerously acute. There are signs that the modern world's love affair with the motor vehicle is coming under ...
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Text Only Building a Just and Caring World
The Third Cornerstone: Economic Relations Present economic systems - both capitalist and communist - have proven incapable of successfully addressing our escalating global crises, from environmental pollution and exponential population growth to hunger, poverty, and growing social dislocation. In fact, many of these problems are exacerbated by contemporary economic models and rules. ...
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Population Action International : Community-Based Population and Environment Programs - Integrating Resource Conservation and Reproductive Health
Other keys to success in this linkage are: responsiveness to community expressions of interest; willingness to take a holistic approach to environmental, developmental or population work; and willingness to pursue institutional partnerships outside normal networks. Working as a team, a nurse and an agricultural extensionist make an unlikely pair, ...
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Population Action International : Why Population Growth Matters to the Future of Forests
Individuals and institutions alike should promote the ecologically sound and socially responsible use of forest products. Eco-labeling, or the environmental certification of wood products, could speed the adoption of more sustainable forestry practices. Consumer demand for green-certified paper and other wood products is an important complement to recycling ...
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