Resource Scarcity: Responding to the Security Challenge
Publisher: Richard Matthew (IPI)
Date: 2008
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Conflict Prevention, Renewable Resources
Countries: Sudan
For over two centuries, the the social effects of natural resource scarcity have been the subject of lively debate. On the one side are those who content that the planet's resource endowment cannot support increased consumption indefinitely. In opposition to this claim, are those who believe that the principal social effect of natural resource scarcity is that it triggers ingenuity.