ABSTRACT
Historical contributions suggest this causal relation dates back to the works of Malthus under the carrying capacities paradigm, who predicted that at some point in time the world’s population would exceed the food supply, leading to conflicts upon resource allocation. Garrett Hardin’s theorization of the tragedy of the commons in the late 1960s also predicted environmental conflicts in the case of overexploitation of common environmental resources. The modern debate started during the last years of the Cold War, along with the redefinition of the traditional concept of security to include environmental security.
