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GENERAL climate change GENERAL Alberta Beliefs and Ideology China Climate Change Complexity Conflict Economics Education Energy Environmental Stress and Conflict Ingenuity Gap Leadership, Politics and Democracy Population Psychology Science Policy Societal Collapse System Resilience Terrorism Trump See All [...]
teaching TEACHING I enjoy teaching and consider it a vitally important part of my professional activities. Since the 1980s, I have taught university courses—both undergraduate and graduate—on environmental security, energy and society, causes of violent conflict, international relations theory, global security governance, negotiation theory and practice, social innovation, research methods, philosophy [...]
Read the face-off between global governance expert Thomas Homer-Dixon and Globe columnist Konrad Yakabuski
BOOKS the ingenuity gap the ingenuity gap "The most persuasive forecast of the 21st century I have seen." -- E.O. Wilson, author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge and twice winner of a Pulitzer prize “Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for [...]
with Stephen Mock | Ideology is important to conflict. Shared beliefs create a sense of group identity, specify targets of hostility and enable coordinated action. Understanding ideology is key to effective conflict resolution and management.
with S. Julio Friedmann | The prognosis for the future of climate change is indeed alarming. Scientists say plausible scenarios include terrible droughts, crop failures, and dying forests around the Mediterranean and in the United States, South America, India, China, and Africa. Sea levels are expected to rise significantly, drowning islands and possibly displacing hundreds of millions of people from coastlines, where more than a third of the world’s population lives. Ground water supplies are set to shrink, reservoirs to dry up. Wildfires and violent storms will strike more often and much harder. And much of this change is expected within the next 50 years.
The rising risk of nuclear war. Donald Trump’s 2016 election. Vast clouds of wildfire smoke. A global pandemic. These four things seem like apples and oranges, but they share one key similarity: each signals that something is going awry in the story of human progress.
ACADEMIC project on environmental scarcities, state capacity, & civil violence An Assessment of the Economic Losses Resulting from Desertification by Ning Datong Desertification In ChinaFor the purpose of this study, desertification is defined as land deterioration in arid, semi-arid and semi-humid regions, largely as a result [...]
In the last century, our population on this planet has quadrupled, and most of us now live in cities. At the same time, new technologies – from antibiotics to jet planes to the internet – have vastly extended our power as individuals, groups, and societies.
