... sea levels rise, agricultural systems are destabilized by deforestation and drought, and extreme weather events proliferate (Myers, 1993). Other ecologically-based phenomena, such as Peak Oil and geopolitical conflict over scarce resources, could further accelerate this process. The emergence of environmental migration as a social problem is not yet widely recognized by sociologists, though it evidently contains the major characteristics of a social ... ...

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... devised the minimal group studies to show how intergroup conflict can occur just by the mere awareness of the presence of another group. They created intergroup behaviour without competition for scarce resources or any social interaction or economic self interest Brown (2007) puts forward that the evidence suggests "that in-group bias is a remarkably omnipresent feature of intergroup relations" (Brown 2007 ... ...

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... , such as growing affluence and competition over the control and distribution of wealth (Aldrich, 1999: 6). Individuals are controlled as wheels of vehicles. Thus, organizations function with both ecompetitive struggles for scarce resources and ecooperative alliances for organizational goal. In this way, organizations and populations not only respond to influences from their environments, but also affect their environments (Aldrich, 1999: 38). Organizations ... ...

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