Resilience and environmental security: towards joint application in peacebuilding

Schilling, Janpeter; Nash, Sarah Louise; Ide, Tobias; Scheffran, Juergen; Froese, Rebecca; Prondzinski, Pina von

doi:10.1080/14781158.2017.1305347

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“…Homer-Dixon stops short of claiming a direct causal link between environmental degradation, scarcity and conflict, but instead suggests that environmental scarcity intersects with other conflict-producing dynamics. It is important to note that environmental security encompasses a much wider range of arguments than those posed by Homer-Dixon (Floyd and Matthew 2013), including notions of the conflict trap (Bannon and Collier 2003), resilience (Schilling et al 2017), and impacts relating to the built-environment (Sowers et al 2017).…”

Section: Environmental Security and Conflicts Over Renewable Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict ecologies: Connecting political ecology and peace and conflict studies

Billon

Duffy

2018

Journal of Political Ecology

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Conflict is at the core of many political ecology studies. Yet there has been limited engagement between political ecology and the field of peace and conflict studies. This lack of connection reflects in part the broader disciplinary context of these two fields. Whereas political ecology research mostly comes from disciplines that eschewed environmental determinism, such as human geography, much of peace and conflict studies is associated with political science using positivist approaches to determine the causal effects of environmental factors on conflicts. Yet greater connections are possible, notably in light of political ecology's renewed engagement with 'materialism', and peace and conflict studies’ increasingly nuanced mixed-methods research on environment-related conflicts. Furthermore, political ecology's emphasis on uneven power relations and pursuit of environmental justice resonates with the structural violence approaches and social justice agenda of peace and conflict studies. This paper provides an overview of the differing conceptualizations and analyses of environmental conflict under the labels of political ecology and peace and conflict studies, and points at opportunities for closer connections.

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Section: Environmental Security and Conflicts Over Renewable Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict ecologies: Connecting political ecology and peace and conflict studies

Billon

Duffy

2018

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…Disasters, violent conflict and migration reinforce each other to some extent with causal chains that can run in both directions (Table 1). However, some links in this nexus are stronger than others (Scheffran et al 2012;Ide and Scheffran 2014;Ide et al 2016;Schilling et al 2017). Thus, disasters and violent conflict are clearly major causes of population displacement.…”

Section: The Disaster-migration-violent Conflict Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only recently has this become less pronounced. Climate change, has become an important common concern for conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities as well as development policy in general, and at the same time, migration and violent conflict are increasingly realized as undermining efforts to alleviate the economic and social consequences of climate change (Mobjörk et al 2016b;Schilling et al 2017;United Nations and World Bank 2018). Environmental peacebuilding explicitly aims to integrate environmental concerns with conflict prevention and peacebuilding (Ide 2018).…”

Section: Complementarities and Synergies Of International Policy Intementioning

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Understanding the Disaster–Migration–Violent Conflict Nexus in a Warming World: The Importance of International Policy Interventions

Brzoska

2019

Social Sciences

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The importance and extent of some of the linkages between disasters, migration and violent conflict are not very well understood. There has been controversy in the empirical analytical literature both over core elements of the nexus and over the mechanisms driving it. One reason for the current state of the pertinent literature is the widespread neglect of international policy interventions in the policy fields of disaster risk reduction, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, migration management as well as humanitarian and development assistance. This contribution highlights the importance of international interventions in these fields with respect to elements of the nexus. Based on a brief review of the comparative empirical evidence concerning the disputed links between disasters, migration and violent conflict it demonstrates how international policy interventions are affecting them. The study concludes with a call for more research into the ways in which international policy interventions contribute to shaping the disaster–migration–violent conflict nexus, arguing that a better understanding would enhance the potential for better policies to address its negative consequences.

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“…Over the long or short term, these decisions and their management can act as drivers of migration and displacement (United Kingdom Government Office for Science 2011). They can also affect peace and security (Schilling et al 2017).…”

Section: Environmental Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2019

Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People

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Environmental pollution is still a major source of damage to the health of the planet (well established), human health (well established), equity (well established) and economic sustainability (established but incomplete). The risks, however, are systemic and wide-ranging, including climate change, ecosystem and biodiversity loss, wildlife damage, systemic change and other major issues. Sustainable development is possible if 'Healthy Planet, Healthy People' becomes central to our understanding of genuine progress. Solutions need to be both evidence-based and systemic, tackling sources of pollution, aiming for co-benefits and checking for unintended consequences. {4.2.1} The number of people affected by both slow and suddenonset environmental disasters is increasing due to compounding effects of multiple and interacting drivers (well established). These drivers include climate change and environmental degradation, poverty and social inequality, demographic change and settlement patterns, increasing population density in urban areas, unplanned urbanization, unsustainable use of natural resources, weak institutional arrangements, and policies which do not consider disaster risk. Disasters undermine human security and well-being, resulting in loss and damage to ecosystems, property, infrastructure, livelihoods, economies and places of cultural significance while forcing millions of people each year to flee their homes. {4.2.2} Gender equality and women's empowerment are multipliers of sustainability (well established). Ensuring gender-equal representation in environmental assessments, resource management and environmental decision-making ensures that diverse experiences and knowledge systems about the environment are integrated and ecosystem conservation and sustainable use of natural resources are enhanced. In this way, increasing gender equality and women's empowerment contribute to achieving the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). {4.2.3} Significant progress has been made around the world with implementing education for sustainable development (ESD) in all educational sectors (well established). However, upscaling of ESD is still needed in order to include it as a core element in the structures of educational systems globally. In this way, education will contribute to achieving the SDGs. Policies are needed that eliminate economic and gender barriers to accessing education. {4.2.4}

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Resilience and environmental security: towards joint application in peacebuilding

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Conflict ecologies: Connecting political ecology and peace and conflict studies

Conflict ecologies: Connecting political ecology and peace and conflict studies

Understanding the Disaster–Migration–Violent Conflict Nexus in a Warming World: The Importance of International Policy Interventions

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