{"product_id":"states-scarcity-and-civil-strife-in-the-developing-world-9780691138350","title":"States Scarcity and Civil Strife in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues that demographic and environmental stress - the interactions among rapid population growth, environmental degradation, inequality, and emerging scarcities of vital natural resources - represents one important source of turmoil in today's world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Kahl] describes two main paths by which extreme poverty raises the likelihood of violent conflict and the collapse of a state into lawlessness.\"--Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American \"States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife is an exemplar of cumulative social science research... Colin Kahl is a highly select class: he ranges back and forth across analysis of the natural and social worlds with nimbleness and a mastery of his material. The book he has produced is a tour de force.\"--Thomas Homer-Dixon, Population and Development Review \"An excellent contribution... An important step toward improving our understanding of the demographic and environmental linkages to conflict.\"--Patricia Kameri-Mbote, ECSP Report \"Besides presenting his own neo-Malthusian model, the author also provides critical but fair accounts of its theoretical competitors, e.g., the (neo-Marxist) 'political ecology' paradigm and the (neo-classical) theories of Collier and others. The book is generally well-structured and well-written, requiring neither mathematical nor economic training of the reader. It is highly recommended as an important contribution to general conflict theory.\"--Bjorn Moller, Economics of Peace and Security Journal \"Kahl's study is currently the most theoretically advanced attempt to include environmental degradation and demographic developments into a social science model of the causation of intrastate violence.\"--Klaus Schlichte, Perspectives on Politics \"[T]his book is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between population growth, environmental degradation, scarcity, and civil strife. Kahl draws attention to a very serious problem which is likely to lead to more human suffering over time unless efforts are made to address it.\"--Robert A. Dowd, Development in Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  List of Tables xi  Acknowledgments xiii  List of Abbreviations xv  Chapter 1: Plight, Plunder, and Political Ecology 1  Chapter 2: States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife: A Theoretical Framework 28  Chapter 3: Green Crisis, Red Rebels: Communist Insurgency in the Philippines 65  Chapter 4: Land and Lies: Ethnic Clashes in Kenya 117  Chapter 5: From Chaos to Calm: Explaining Variations in Violence in the Philippines and Kenya 163  Chapter 6: Conclusions and Implications 209  Notes 249  Index 323","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403762803031,"sku":"9780691138350","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/states-scarcity-and-civil-strife-in-the-developing-world-9780691138350","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}