Thomas F Homer-Dixon
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"Winner of the 2000 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, American Political Science Association" 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.
The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in...
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The challenges facing human societies -- from international financial crises to AIDS -- converge, intertwine and often remain largely beyond readers' understanding. Homer-Dixon makes clear the extent to which readers live with, construct and depend upon systems they little understand--systems of law, the market, of institutions and technologies.
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"Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even Lord of the Rings, Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink. For three decades, the renowned author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, and The Ingenuity Gap: Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?, has examined the threats to our future security--predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme...