Environmental Conflict : An Anthology

ISBN-13: 9780813397542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 351 str.

Paul F. Diehl; Nils Petter Gleditsch; Nils Petter Gleditsch

Opis

As environmental security gains increasing attention, there is a pressing need for rigorous examinations of environmental causes of conflict and the potential for conflict resolution. Environmental Conflict explores the relationship between environmental degradation or scarcity and either intrastate or interstate violent conflict. Informed by theoretical perspectives, a major strength is the focus on demanding empirical tests of hypothesized relationships between environmental factors and violence. Identifying the causes of conflict can assist in developing meliorative measures. The contributors are eminent scholars who address a pressing issue in innovative ways.

Spis treści

Controversies and Questions -- Environmental Degradation as a Source of Conflict -- The Case of South Africa -- Causal Pathways to Conflict -- Demographic Pressure and Interstate Conflict -- Demography, Environment, and Security -- Water and Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality -- Resource Constraints or Abundance? -- The Reduction of Environmental Conflict -- Democracy and the Environment -- The Limits and Promise of Environmental Conflict Prevention -- Fair Division in the Spratly Islands Conflict -- Environmental Cooperation and International Peace -- Environmental Conflict: A Future Research Agenda -- Armed Conflict and the Environment -- The Environment and Violent Conflict

O autorze

Paul Diehl