Resource Scarcity and Conflict in Developing Countries

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Crisis events in tourism: subjects of crisis in tourism (2010, background): “These include the economy (Gurr, 1985), human rights, welfare, energy resources (Bielecki, 2002; Maxwell & Reuveny, 2000), the environment (Myers, 1993; Stern, 1995), food (Cohen & Pinstrup-Andersen, 1998) and water (Haftendorn, 2000; World Water Assessment Programme, 2001) as part of the discourse…”
Climate shocks and political violence (2014, background): “Likewise, during periods of environmental stress, communities will want to retain young, productive people to offset agricultural shortfalls with non-farm labor (Reardon, Matlon & Delgado, 1988) rather than sending them to join the ranks of an insurgency. In short, during drought and other natural d”
Why Worry about Climate Change? A Research Agenda (2008, unknown): “Research into the determinants of violent conflict concludes that resource scarcity is at best a contributing factor to, and never a cause of war (Alesina and Spolaore, 2005; Collier and Hoeffler, 1998, 2005; Homer-Dixon, 1991, 1992; Homer-Dixon et al., 1993; Maxwell and Reuveny, 2000).”