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The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

ECSP Report 13: Cover and Table of Contents
ECSP Report 13: Cover and Table of Contents

University of Toronto Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon writes provocative and influential books on issues of global importance, roaming effortlessly across scholarly disciplines and distilling insights from complex theoretical literatures. His arguments illuminate complicated global processes, describe the problems they generate and their likely trajectories, and identify responses that individuals, businesses, and policymakers should consider. His latest book, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, deserves a wide readership and should be the focus of animated discussions in classrooms, journals, and policy arenas around the world.

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Richard Matthew

Associate Dean of Research and International Programs, School of Social Ecology; Professor of Urban Planning, Public Policy, and Political Science; Director, Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, University of California, Irvine
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Environmental Change and Security Program

The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.  Read more