Podcast: SBS Radio “Environmental breakdown, or opportunity?” interview
“Environmental breakdown, or opportunity?” interview with Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon on the World View program on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Radio, Australia. Listen to the podcast:
View ArticleWhen Wise Words Are Not Enough
Review of Vaclav Smil, Global Catastrophes and Trends and Chris Patten, What Next? Nature …opinion-makers must demonstrate a better grasp of how societies rise and fall if they are to steer nations...
View ArticleReview of Vaclav Smil’s Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years...
Nature Review of Vaclav Smil’s “Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years” and Chris Patten’s “What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century“ …opinion-makers must demonstrate a better grasp...
View ArticleTerrence McNally Interviewed Thomas Homer-Dixon about His Book ‘The Upside of...
Interview with Terrence McNally, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, California In 2006, THOMAS HOMER DIXON, author of Canada’s #1 bestseller, THE UPSIDE OF DOWN, wrote, “September 11th and Katrina won’t be...
View ArticlePodcast: Terrence McNally interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon on his book, The...
In 2006, Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of Canada’s #1 bestseller, The Upside of Down, wrote, “September 11th and Katrina won’t be the last time we walk out of our cities.” Whether from economic collapse,...
View ArticlePodcast: Risk, uncertainty and transformation in a time of crisis
September 19th, 2010, interview with Eric Paglia of Think Globally Radio, Stockholm, Sweden, on “Risk, uncertainty, and transformation in a time of crisis.” One of the world’s leading scholars on the...
View ArticleVideo: “Catastrophic Dehumanization”
Talk at the James Martin School at Oxford University on “Catastrophic Dehumanization.” Dehumanization is arguably a defining feature of the most brutal acts of human violence, such as saturation...
View ArticleEbola Epidemic Could Tear Societies Apart
Toronto Globe and Mail, September 18, 2014 World leaders finally seem to be waking up to the gravity of the Ebola threat. Like the rest of us, they’ve been distracted by the Islamic State’s rampage in...
View ArticleSynchronous Failure: The Emerging Causal Architecture of Global Crisis
Synchronous Failure: The Emerging Causal Architecture of Global Crisis with Brian Walker, Reinette Biggs, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Carl Folke, Eric F. Lambin, Garry D. Peterson, Johan Rockström, Marten...
View ArticleComplexity Science
Homer-Dixon, Thomas, “Complexity Science,” Oxford Leadership Journal, January 2011, 2(1). An article based on the Canada School of Public Service’s 2010 John L. Manion Lecture, entitled “Complexity,...
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