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Natural Resources and Social Conflict

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Schnurr, Matthew A.; Swatuk, Larry A.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137002464

ISBN: 978-1-349-33420-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 28, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Towards Critical Environmental Security

Schnurr, Matthew A.; Swatuk, Larry A.

Pages: 1 –14

[The year 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (commonly called the Earth Summit) held at Rio de Janeiro, and the tenth anniversary since Rio’s follow-up meeting at Johannesburg, the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)....
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What Are We Really Looking For? From Eco-Violence to Environmental Injustice

Stoett, Peter

Pages: 15 –32

[The literature on eco-violence and environmental conflict, and its future as an interdisciplinary subfield, has a foundational problem if it is really based on the study of violence. This is because there is no accepted definition of ‘violence’ itself, and because the use of the term for any...
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Climatic Security and the Tipping Point Conception of the Earth System

Russill, Chris

Pages: 33 –62

[Now it is time for us to rise to our newest and biggest challenge: to fight the first great war of interdependence, the struggle for climate security.1And I think that, from this day forward, the words ‘climate change’ and ‘international security’ will be forever linked.2 Abrupt and dangerous...
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Insecurities of Non-Dominance: Re-Theorizing Human Security and Environmental Change in Developed States

Greaves, Wilfrid

Pages: 63 –82

[Contemporary human security theory often characterizes people as secure or insecure based largely upon the ‘security’ of their respective states. Although some research explicitly notes that human insecurity can arise in developed and developing states, seldom does it pay the former more than...
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Water and Security in Africa: State-Centric Narratives, Human Insecurities

Swatuk, Larry A.

Pages: 83 –107

[Africa has long been a battleground of underdevelopment, described by UNICEF (1994: 25) as being locked in a downward spiral of population increase, environmental degradation and poverty. Homer-Dixon (1999) drew many of his case studies from Africa in explication of the role of renewable...
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Avoiding the Resource Curse in Ghana: Assessing the Options

Arthur, Peter

Pages: 108 –127

[The finite supply of fossil fuels combined with increased demand is leading to an intensification of efforts by various states and multinational corporations (MNCs) to discover and control new sources of oil. This has become even more urgent in recent times with the Western world interested in...
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Sexual Violence, Coltan and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Whitman, Shelly

Pages: 128 –151

[While it is often stated that women and children are the most vulnerable during armed conflict, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) exemplifies the ultimate lack of protection and deliberate targeting of civilians that has come to characterize modern warfare. The DRC held their first...
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Official Secrets and Popular Delusions: Security at the End of the Fossil Fuel Age?

Mulligan, Shane

Pages: 152 –169

[Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn’t like TV news, is it? Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.Kurt Vonnegut (2004) Peak oil is an awkward topic to broach. While there is strong evidence that world oil...
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Securing Alberta’s Tar Sands: Resistance and Criminalization on a New Energy Frontier

Billon, Philippe Le; Carter, Angela

Pages: 170 –192

[Unconventional oil is frequently presented as the future of petroleum-based energy resources.1 Critics, in contrast, denounce unconventional oil as a major factor of environmental insecurity for local ecosystems, communities and the planet. In particular, they claim that unconventional...
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The State-Corporate Nexus: Trading Social Benefits for Environmental Costs and Localized Vulnerability

Arsenault, Chris

Pages: 193 –214

[The road to the Volz farm winds though the rolling foothills of British Columbia’s (BC’s) Peace River region, dotted by cattle farms, bails of hay and oil-pump jacks. The Volz family has grown hay and raised cattle on the picturesque 2000 acre spread for the last 35 years. June Volz taught grade...

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