1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Environmental Security
The Routledge Handbook on Environmental Security provides a comprehensive, accessible, and sophisticated overview of the field of environmental security.
The volume outlines the defining theories, major policy and programming interventions, and applied research surrounding the relationship between the natural environment and human and national security. Through the use of large-scale research and ground-level case analyses from across the globe, it details how environmental factors affect human security and contribute to the onset and continuation of violent conflict. It also examines the effects of violent conflict on the social and natural environment and the importance of environmental factors in conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
Organized around the conflict cycle, the handbook is split into four thematic sections:
• Section I: Environmental factors contributing to conflict;
• Section II: The environment during conflict;
• Section III: The role of the environment in post-conflict peacebuilding; and
• Section IV: Cross-cutting themes and critical perspectives.
This handbook will be essential reading for students of environmental studies, human security, global governance, development studies, and international relations in general.
1. Introduction
Richard A. Matthew and Evgenia Nizkorodov
2. Defining Environmental Peacebuilding
Carl Bruch, David Jensen, and Monica Emma
Section I: Environmental Factors Contributing to Conflict
3. The Geography(ies) of Resource Wars
Michael T. Klare
4. Extractives as a Contributor to Conflict
Philippe Le Billon
5. Land Rights and Land Use as a Contributor to Conflict
Jon D. Unruh
6. Unpacking the Complexity of Water, War and Conflict
Vandana Asthana
7. Climate Change as a Contributor to Conflict
Alec Crawford and Clare Church
Section II: The Environment during Conflict
8. Environmental Destruction during War
Charles Closmann
9. The Toxic Legacy of War: Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War
Kenneth R. Rutherford and Paige Ober
10. The Environmental Spoils of War
Paivi Lujala, Ashley Hooper, and Maureen J. Purcell
11. Population Displacement and the Environment during War
Evgenia Nizkorodov and Paroma Wagle
12. Natural Disasters and Armed Conflict
Colin Walch
13. Climate Change, Public Health and the Conflict Cycle
James Orbinski, Richard A. Matthew, Evgenia Nizkorodov, and Sifat Reazi
Section III: The Role of the Environment in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
14. Natural Resource Governance Reform and Environmental Peacebuilding
Michael D. Beevers
15. Urban Dimensions of Peacebuilding: Green Infrastructure in Kigali, Rwanda and Freetown, Sierra Leone as a Means for More Resilient Peace
Bemmy Maharramli
16. Peace Parks in Theory and Practice: Confronting the Elephant in the Room
Larry A. Swatuk
17. Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Peacebuilding
Richard A. Matthew
18. A Paradigm for Actionable and Accessible Local Flood Hazard Information
Brett F. Sanders, Richard A. Matthew, Adam Luke, Kristen Goodrich, Victoria Basolo, Ana Eguiarte, Danielle Boudreau, and David L. Feldman
Section IV: Cross-Cutting Themes and Critical Perspectives
19. Securitizing the Environment
Rita Floyd
20. Environmental Security Discourse in the Anthropocene
Simon Dalby
21. The Environment and Human Security: a Water-Food-Energy Nexus Approach
Florian Krampe, Anders Jägerskog, and Ashok Swain
22. The Environmental Security Debate in Nepal: A Perspective from the South
Bishnu Raj Upreti and Evgenia Nizkorodov
23. Environmental Peacebuilding at the Tijuana-San Diego Border
Kristen A. Goodrich and Kyle Haines
24. Gender and Environmental Security
Silja Halle
25. UN Environment’s Contribution to the Emerging Field of Environmental Peacebuilding: Key Policy Milestones and Lessons Learned
David Jensen and Amanda Kron
26. Conclusion
Evgenia Nizkorodov and Richard Matthew
Biography
Richard Matthew is Professor of Urban Planning, Public Policy, and Political Science and Associate Dean of Research and International Programs at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Evgenia Nizkorodov is a research fellow at the University of California, Irvine Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, USA.
Crystal Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the MA International Studies program at Chapman University, USA.
