Environmental Change, National Security and the Conflict Cycle (Environmental Security Vol. 2)
Publisher: Sage Publications
Author(s): Richard Matthew (ed.)
Date: 2014
Topics: Conflict Causes, Renewable Resources
Countries: Congo (DRC), South Africa, Sudan
The literature compiled in this four-volume collection explores the real and potential linkages between environmental change and security. Early formulations of environmental security date to antiquity, whilst contemporary formulations of environment-conflict-peace linkages grew in part from the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The ensuing flood of academic enquiry has been diverse and extensive, and the objective of this major work is to organize this important but polysemous literature in order to provide a comprehensive, historically rich and global overview of its key concepts, findings, contributors and methodologies.