Strategies for Studying Causation in Complex Ecological-Political Systems
The Journal of Environment & DevelopmentPublished 1 June 1996
Thomas Homer‐Dixon
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This article shows that some commonly advocated methodological principles of modern political science are inapprapriate for the study of complex ecological-political systems. It also provides conceptual tools for thinking about the causal roles of environmental and demographic factors, and it discusses various strategies for hypothesis and inference testing.
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