Thomas Homer-Dixon

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Thomas Homer-Dixon is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and Scientific American.
He is author of the acclaimed books The Ingenuity Gap (Knopf, 2001), which won the 2001 Canadian Governor General Award for Non-Fiction, and Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton University Press, 1999).

The Upside of Down

Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

Environmental disasters. Terrorist wars. Energy scarcity. Is this the world's fate, a downward spiral that ultimately spells the collapse of society? Perhaps, says acclaimed author Thomas Homer-Dixon—or perhaps these crises can actually lead to renewal for ourselves and planet earth.
 
The Upside of Down takes the reader on a mind-stretching tour of societies' management, or mismanagement, of disasters over time.