Thomas Homer Dixon
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Thomas Homer-Dixon (born 1956 in Victoria, British Columbia) is the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto and a leading researcher in the field of environmental security. He obtained a BA in political science from Carleton University in 1980, and a Ph.D. in international relations and defence and arms control policy from MIT in 1989.
[edit] Published Books
- The Ingenuity Gap
- Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton University Press, 1999)
- Ecoviolence: Links among Environment, Population, and Security with Jessica Blitt. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998)
- The Upside of Down
- He has also published many scholarly articles.
[edit] Trivia
Dr. Homer-Dixon briefed Al Gore twice during his tenure as Vice President of the United States.
