41. Globalization and Scarcity: Multilateralism for a world with limits
- Author:
- Alex Evans
- Publication Date:
- 11-2010
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center on International Cooperation
- Abstract:
- Globalization has improved the living standards of hundreds of millions of people – but growing resource scarcity means it risks becoming a victim of its own success. Left unaddressed, scarcity of food, energy, water, land and other key 'natural assets' has the potential to trigger intensifying zero sum competition between states – in the process, increasing poverty, state fragility, economic instability, inflation, and strategic resource competition between major powers.
- Topic:
- Security, Agriculture, Economics, Energy Policy, Environment, Globalization, Natural Resources, Water, and Food
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus