Paul Diehl, Nils Petter Gleditsch

Environmental Conflict (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of environmental degradation or scarcity in intrastate or interstate violent conflict and how cooperative efforts might forestall undesirable consequences. It enhances understanding of the possibilities for future conflict and how to prevent it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429980428
• Artikelnr.: 54000222

Autorenporträt

Paul Diehl is Professor of Political Science and University "Distinguished Teacher/Scholar" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan in 1983 and has held faculty positions at the University of Georgia and SUNY-Albany. Nils Petter Gleditsch was trained as a sociologist at the University of Oslo. He is a Research Professor at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and edits one of the leading journals in the field, the bi-monthly Journal of Peace Research. He is also Professor of International Relations at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Controversies and Questions
Part I Environmental Degradation as a Source of Conflict
2 The Case of South Africa
3 Causal Pathways to Conflict
4 Demographic Pressure and Interstate Conflict
5 Demography, Environment, and Security
6 Water and Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality
7 Resource Constraints or Abundance?
Part II The Reduction of Environmental Conflict
8 Democracy and the Environment
9 The Limits and Promise of Environmental Conflict Prevention
10 Fair Division in the Spratly Islands Conflict
11 Environmental Cooperation and International Peace
Part III Environmental Conflict: A Future Research Agenda
12 Armed Conflict and the Environment
13 The Environment and Violent Conflict