Book Review Essay: Conflict, Ecology and the Politics of Environmental Security

By Simon Dalby. Global Environmental Politics, 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflicts (2001, background): “According to advocates of the scarce resource wars hypothesis, people or nations will fight each other to secure access to the resources necessary for their survival: the more scarce the resource, the more bitter the fight (Bennett, 1991; Brown, 1977; Homer-Dixon, 1999; Renner, 1996; Suliman, 1998 —”
• The Political Economy of Land Conflict in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon (2004, methodology): “L and conflict was a significant driver of social, political, and environmental change throughout the 20th century (Homer-Dixon 1999; Carius and Lietzmann 1999).”
• Effects of War and Civil Strife on Wildlife and Wildlife Habitats (2002, methodology): “…analysis of interrelationships between environmental and political factors in the context of international security issues (Homer-Dixon et al. 1993; Homer-Dixon 1999; Lietzmann & Vest 1999) and identify self-reinforcing feedback between ecosystem vulnerability, natural-resource degradation, and…”
• The Politics of Sustainability and Development (2016, background): “Equally, relative abundance or scarcity results in resources curses (45), conflict (46), and potentially war (47); although there are many critiques of securitization and environment-conflict discourses (e.”
• Conflict management of riparian disputes (2006, background): “7 One implication of this indirect effect, discussed by Homer-Dixon (1999) and Gurr (1985), is that stable democratic regimes will be less likely to develop in countries that lack adequate natural resources, especially if they are also experiencing massive population growth and increased…”
• Chronic Poverty and Remote Rural Areas (2002, background): “Homer-Dixon (1999) argues the existence of a causal relationship between environmental scarcity and violence - particularly ethnic clashes and civil strife.”