Abstract Environmental peacebuilding is a rapidly growing field of research and practice at the intersection environment, conflict, peace security. Focusing on these linkages crucial in time when environment core issue international politics number armed conflicts remains high. This article introduces special with particular emphasis environmental opportunities for building sustaining peace. We first detail definitions, theoretical assumptions intellectual background peacebuilding. The then...

▪ Abstract Most political scientists and economists unequivocally accept the proposition that abundant mineral resources are more often a curse than blessing, particularly for developing countries. We argue widely accepted contention an abundance of influx external rents generated from these during boom periods to blame so-called “resource curse” should be revisited. Instead, we offer new research agenda studying problem resource-rich states shifts locus study away “paradox plenty”...

Countless studies document the correlation between abundant mineral resources and a series of negative economic political outcomes, including poor performance, unbalanced growth, weakly institutionalized states, authoritarian regimes across developing world. The disappointing experience mineral-rich countries has generated large body scholarship aimed at explaining this empirical list prescriptions for combating resource curse. most popular solutions emphasize macroeconomic policies,...

Research in conflict studies and environmental security has largely focused on the mechanisms through which environment natural resources foster or contribute to peacebuilding. An understudied area of research, however, concerns ways warfare targeted civilian infrastructure with long-term effects human welfare ecosystems. This article seeks fill this gap. We focus better understanding destruction water, sanitation, waste, energy infrastructures, we term by drawing an author-compiled database...

Unconventional shale gas development holds promise for reducing the predominant consumption of coal and increasing utilization natural in China. While China possesses some most abundant technically recoverable resources world, water availability could still be a limiting factor hydraulic fracturing operations, addition to geological, infrastructural, technological barriers. Here, we project baseline next 15 years Sichuan Basin, one promising basins Our projection shows that continued demand...

State and non-state actors across many protracted conflicts prolonged occupations in the Middle East North Africa have systematically targeted civilian infrastructures. We use cases of West Bank Gaza, characterized by more than five decades occupation periods intermittent violent conflict, to analyse how targeting water, energy, agricultural infrastructures has created humanitarian crises undermined livelihoods. Our analysis draws upon an original database tracking environmental on...

Abstract Many modern conflicts, from Iraq to Yemen, have emerged as brutal wars in which state and non-state actors directly indirectly target a wide array of civilian infrastructures, including water, energy food systems. Similar many twentieth-century wars, common feature the Middle East North Africa twenty-first century has been ‘civilianization’ war, casualties far outnumbered battlefield deaths. We explore targeting infrastructures Yemeni war (2011–2019) explicate connections between...

Journal Article Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflicts Get access conflicts. By Tobias Ide. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2023. 304pp. Pb.: £43.00. Isbn978 0 26254 555 6. Available as e-book. Erika Weinthal Duke University, US Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 436–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad316 Published: 08 2024

The literature on resource-rich states leaves a key and prior question unexplored: Why how do choose to develop their natural resources? authors address this gap by explaining the divergence in oil gas development strategies five energy-rich Soviet successor states. argue that leaders based domestic constraints they face when either discover or gain newfound authority over resource endowments: (a) availability of alternative sources export revenue (b) level political contestation. Where...

The view of institutions as coercion rather than contracts dominates the comparative politics literature on both institutional creation and economic reform. emergence a collectively optimal tax code in Russia demonstrates limitations this emphasis coercion. This new was not imposed by strong central leader, mandated international institutions, or result state capture powerful interest groups. Rather, it is product mutually beneficial exchange between Russian government oil companies....

This review analyzes the methods being used and developed in global environmental governance (GEG), an applied field that employs insights tools from a variety of disciplines both to understand pressing problems determine how address them collectively. We find are often underspecified GEG research. undertake critical data collection analysis three categories: qualitative, quantitative, modeling scenario building. include examples references recent studies show when best utilize these...

The extraction of unconventional oil and gas—from shale rocks, tight sand, coalbed formations—is shifting the geographies fossil fuel production, with complex consequences. Following Jackson et al.’s ( 1 ) natural science survey environmental consequences hydraulic fracturing, this review examines social literature on energy. After an overview rise energy, energy economics geopolitics, community mobilization, state private regulatory responses. Unconventional requires different frames...

In India, human-wildlife conflict (HWC) around protected areas (PAs) has magnified social over conservation and development priorities. India introduced financial compensation for HWC as a policy solution to simultaneously promote human security while protecting biodiversity. We evaluate mitigation four in Rajasthan (Jaisamand, Sitamata, Phulwari, Kumbhalgarh). argue that is failing reconcile priorities two reasons. First, focus on charismatic megafauna obscures the livelihood costs of...

Abstract From academics to practitioners, many voices have amplified an increasingly popular narrative posing a climate–conflict–migration nexus. This essay reviews the literature on climate security, exploring human security impacts of change in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with particular attention scholarly vulnerability adaptation. It also examines policy implications discourses that frame water, food, climate‐induced migration as threats. review highlights how incorporating...

The Amu Darya and Syr rivers of Central Asia flow across deserts to empty into the Aral Sea. Under Soviet rule, so much water was diverted from for agricultural purposes that salinity levels rapidly rose sea shrank. There an upsurge in dust storms containing toxic salt residue, a new desert began replace sea. At same time, runoff rendered drinking unfit human consumption. In this book Erika Weinthal examines how Asian states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan have...