Environmental Conflict

About this book

Explores the relationship between environmental degradation or scarcity and either intrastate or interstate violent conflict.

Contents

Introduction: Controversies and Questions ( Paul F. Diehl & Nils Petter Gleditsch); Environmental Degradation as a Source of Conflict; The Case of South Africa (Val Percival & Thomas HomerDixon); Causal Pathways to Conflict (Wenche Hauge & Tanja Ellingsen); Demographic Pressure and Interstate Conflict (Jaroslav Tir & Paul F. Diehl ); Demography, Environment, and Security (Jack A. Goldstone); Water and Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality (Steve C. Lonergan); Resource Constraints or Abundance? (Bjrn Lomborg); The Reduction of Environmental Conflict; Democracy and the Environment (Manus I. Midlarsky); The Limits and Promise of Environmental Conflict Prevention (Rodger A. Payne); Fair Division in the Spratly Islands Conflict (David B. H. Denoon & Steven J. Brams); Environmental Cooperation and International Peace (Ken Conca); Environmental Conflict: A Future Research Agenda; Armed Conflict and the Environment (Nils Petter Gleditsch); The Environment and Violent Conflict (Daniel M. Schwartz, Tom Deligiannis, and Thomas Homer-Dixon)

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