In constructing the causal interrelationship between environmental scarcity,social adaptation and acute conflict,Homer-Dixon studies the ontological and methodological issues on environment security.
在建构环境匮乏、社会适应性和紧急冲突的因果联系过程中,霍马—迪克逊(Homer-D ixon)探讨了环境安全的本体论与方法论问题,对发展中国家的环境安全问题进行了经验研究,并且建立了较为完整的环境安全理论体系。