Strategies for Studying Causation in Complex Ecological Political Systems
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Previous Talks
previous talks PREVIOUS TALKS 2017 June 1, 2017 “Seeing through Complexity: Investment Dangers and Opportunities in a World under Stress,” Triovest, Montreal, Québec. February 13, 2017 “Climate Change and Global Food Supply: What You Should Know,” World Government Summit, Dubai, UAE. 2016 December 7, 2016 “Climate Change: What [...]
Section 5 (Indonesia)
ACADEMIC project on environmental scarcities, state capacity, & civil violence The Case Study of Indonesia - Section 5 by Charles Victor Barber World Resources Institute Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the University of Toronto, 1997 V. NATURAL RESOURCE SCARCITY AND CONFLICT IN THE NEXT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS: [...]
Section 3 (Indonesia)
ACADEMIC project on environmental scarcities, state capacity, & civil violence The Case Study of Indonesia - Section 3 by Charles Victor Barber World Resources Institute Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the University of Toronto, 1997 III. NEW ORDER STATE CAPACITY: GROWTH, STRENGTHS, AND WEAKNESSES The New [...]
Climate Change, The Arctic and Canada: Avoiding Yesterday’s Analysis of Tomorrow’s Crisis
Paper Prepared for the 20th Anniversary Conference of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Ottawa, Ontario
Complexity Science and Public Policy
We need to start thinking about the world in a new way, because in some fundamental and essential respects our world has changed its character. We need to shift from seeing the world as composed largely of simple machines to seeing it as composed mainly of complex systems.
Straw Man in the Wind
An exchange with David Victor in The National Interest on the links between resource and environmental stress and violent conflict.
Conflict in a Nonlinear World: Complex Adaptation at the Intersection of Energy, Climate, and Security
“More and more often, solutions to complex human conflict require complex solutions—solutions involving diverse organizations such as police forces, first responders, other government departments, non-government organizations (NGO/charities) and militaries. As a result, the politics of these operations can be Byzantine, the logistics overwhelming, and the moral and ethical considerations dizzying in their implications.”
Environmental Scarcity and Violent Conflict: The Case of Gaza
Kimberley Kelly and Thomas Homer-Dixon | The achievement of limited autonomy for Palestinians in Gaza and Jericho in 1993 engendered hope for peace in the Middle East, yet violence persists. The links between environmental scarcity and conflict are complex, but in Gaza, water scarcity has clearly aggravated socioeconomic conditions.
Exchange on Violent Environments
with Nancy Peluso and Michael Watts | ECSP invited Homer-Dixon, Peluso, and Watts to engage in a dialogue about how Violent Environments characterized Homer-Dixon’s work as well as the future of environmental security research.
