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Environment, Population, and Health: Strategies for a More Secure World

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Environmental Change and Security Program

By Jared Diamond

Economics and Globalization Environment Biodiversity Asia

ECSP Report 10: Reviews of New Publications

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Countries that are overwhelmed by environmental problems tend to develop political and economic problems, writes Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

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Jared Diamond

Professor of Geography and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles

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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

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