Ecoviolence: Shrinking Pie, or Honey Pot?

By Indra de Soysa. Global Environmental Politics, 2002

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Climate shocks and political violence (2014, background): “First, economic prosperity may increase resources available to militants: violence becomes easier to sustain when resources are available and looting becomes more profitable (Adano et al., 2012; Butler & Gates, 2012, de Soysa, 2002; Collier & Hoeffler, 2004, Witsenburg & Adano, 2009).”
Oil abundance and violent political conflict: A critical assessment (2007, background): “Finally, it has been suggested that the risk of civil war is increased in oil states because oil states tend to produce authoritarian governance (Ross, 2001c , de Soysa, 2002b ).”
Population Pressure, Horizontal Inequality and Political Violence: A Disaggregated Study of Indonesian Provinces, 1990–2003 (2011, background): “Ellingsen (1998) and de Soysa (2002) found some support for a link between high population density (proxying land scarcity) and internal armed conflict in large cross-national time-series studies.”
Environmental changes and violent conflict (2012, background): “Nel and Righarts (2008) concede, however, that different dynamics apply to minor as compared 9 Note that several authors (e.g. Raleigh and Urdal 2007, Urdal 2005, de Soysa 2002a, 2002b) report a significant positive influence of population density on domestic armed conflict.”