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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Environmental Change and Violent Conflict
Growing scarcities of renewable resources can contribute to social instability and civil strife
verfasst von : Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Jeffrey H. Boutwell, George W. Rathjens
Erschienen in: Warfare Ecology
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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Abstract
Within the next 50 years, the human population is likely to exceed nine billion, and global economic output may quintuple. Largely as a result of these two trends, scarcities of renewable resources may increase sharply. The total area of highly productive agricultural land will drop, as will the extent of forests and the number of species they sustain. Future generations will also experience the ongoing depletion and degradation of aquifers, rivers and other bodies of water, the decline of fisheries, further stratospheric ozone loss and, perhaps, significant climatic change.