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ECSP Report 11: Reviews of New Publications

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Missing Women and Bare Branches: Gender Balance and Conflict

Experts review new publications:

  • Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population, by Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer (2004). Reviewed by Richard P. Cincotta.
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond (2004). Reviewed by Kenneth C. Brill.
  • From Conflict to Sustainable Development: Assessment and Clean-up in Serbia and Montenegro and Desk Study on the Environment in Liberia, by UN Environmental Programme (2004). Reviewed by Gregory D. Foster.
  • Global Crises, Global Solutions, edited by Bjørn Lomborg (2004). Reviewed by Robert Costanza.
  • Global Population Policy: From Population Control to Reproductive Rights, by Paige Whaley Eager (2004). Reviewed by Duff Gillespie.
  • Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building, by Ken Conca (2005). Reviewed by Anthony R. Turton.
  • HIV and National Security: Where Are the Links?, by Laurie Garrett (2005). Reviewed by Jennifer Wisnewski Kaczor.
  • Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power, by Sanjeev Khagram (2004) and Identity, Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems, by Jack Kalpakian (2004). Reviewed by Anton Earle.
  • Journal of Peace Research: Special Issue on the Demography of Conflict and Violence, edited by Henrik Urdal and Helge Brunborg (2005). Reviewed by Christian Leuprecht.
  • The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg (2003). Reviewed by Michael Renner.
  • The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Postwar Population-Resource Crises, by Björn-Ola Linnér (2003). Reviewed by Ted Gaulin.
  • Scarcity and Surfeit: The Ecology of Africa’s Conflicts, edited by Jeremy Lind and Kathryn Sturman (2002). Reviewed by Bidisha Biswas.
  • Twenty-First Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development, and the Environment, edited by Tim Dyson, Robert Cassen, and Leela Visaria (2004). Reviewed by Toufiq Siddiqi.

Authors

Richard Cincotta
Richard Cincotta
Global Fellow;
Demographer in Residence, The Stimson Center
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