Blockchain for Environmental Peacebuilding: Application in Water Management
Publisher: Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance
Author(s): Fariz Huseynov and Jeanene Mitchell
Date: 2023
Topics: Basic Services, Conflict Prevention, Data and Technologies, Governance, Renewable Resources
The purpose of this paper is to spur further exploration of blockchain technologies for environmental peacebuilding, specifically through water management. Although the environmental peacebuilding field acknowledges the potentially transformative nature of frontier technologies, most existing studies do not address how such technologies can contribute to peacebuilding through improved natural resource governance. Using a theory synthesis research design, this conceptual paper connects these studies to discuss how blockchain technologies in water management may contribute to environmental peacebuilding through the efficient and transparent management of natural resources.