1st Edition
Climate Change and Resource Conflict The Role of Scarcity
By Judith M. Bretthauer
Copyright 2017
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the links between climate change and resource scarcity to violent conflict.
Does climate change cause conflicts? This book analyses the economic, political and social conditions under which countries with low levels of freshwater or arable land experience armed conflict. There are strong theoretic arguments linking climate change and scarcity of livelihood resources to... Read more
1. Climate Change, Resource Scarcity and Armed Conflict
2. Economic Explanations: Development, Dependence and Diversification
3. Political Explanations: Dimensions of State Capacities
4. Social Explanations: Inequality and Adaptive Skills
5. Bringing Economic, Political and Social Explanations Together
6. Conclusion
Biography
Judith M. Bretthauer is a project manager at the Sanddorf Stiftung, Germany, and has a PhD in Political Science from the VU University, Netherlands.
