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Notes
1. Social Darwinism refers to the notion that societies are shaped by their physical environments, to which they adapt, just as species adapt.
2. The Washington Consensus was formed in the late 1980s to promulgate the idea that only private property transacted in a free market with minimal government interference could result in rational allocation of resources and the creation of robust economies.
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This work was undertaken with partial support of the International Water Security Network, a project funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charitable foundation helping protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and the application of research. Additional support was provided by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (project CRN3056), which is supported by the US National Science Foundation (grant no. GEO-1128040), NSF grant no. DEB-1010495, and the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation in Tucson, Arizona.