Critical Environmental Security: Rethinking the Links Between Natural Resources and Political Violence
New Issues in Security #5
Edited by Matthew A. Schnurr and Larry A. Swatuk
June 2010
Available Online Only
This collection of papers emerged out of an international conference entitled “Environmental Violence and Conflict: Implications for Global Security,” which brought together a wide array of scholars, policy experts and activists to evaluate the role of the non-human environment in precipitating and perpetuating violence. What follows is the preliminary result of our efforts to investigate the as-yet underappreciated ecological dimensions of conflict by exploring the intersections between natural resources and political upheaval. This collection aims to foster deeper engagement between the security and environmental communities, whose expertise are too often isolated from each other.
Table of Contents
| SECTION 1: ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY THEORY AND PRACTICE | ||
| INTRODUCTION Critical Environmental Security: Rethinking the Links Between Natural Resources and Political Violence |
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| Matthew A. Schnurr and Larry A. Swatuk | ||
| CHAPTER 1 Institutional Constraints, Violence and Environmental Security: Some Conceptual and Empirical Observations |
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| Jorge Nef and O.P. Dwivedi | ||
| CHAPTER 2 The Evolution of Environment-Conflict Research |
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| Tom Deligiannis | ||
| CHAPTER 3 What are We Really Looking For? From Eco-Violence to Environmental Injustice |
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| Peter Stoett | ||
| CHAPTER 4 Climatic Security and the Tipping Point Conception of the Earth System |
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| Chris Russill | ||
| CHAPTER 5 Insecurities of Non-Dominance: Re-Theorizing Human Security and Environmental Change in Developed States |
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| Wilfrid Greaves | ||
| SECTION 2: RESOURCE CONFLICTS | ||
| CHAPTER 6 Water and Human Security in Africa |
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| Larry Swatuk and Dominic Mazvimavi | ||
| CHAPTER 7 Sexual Violence, Coltan and the Democratic Republic of Congo |
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| Shelly Whitman | ||
| CHAPTER 8 ‘The Elephant in the Room’: Peak Oil on the Security Agenda |
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| Shane Mulligan | ||
| CHAPTER 9 Dirty Security? Tar Sands, Energy Security and Environmental Violence |
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| Philippe Le Billon and Angela Carter | ||
| SECTION 3: THE WEAK IN A WORLD OF THE STRONG | ||
| CHAPTER 10 Loud Bangs and Quiet Canadians: An Analysis of Oil Patch Sabotage in British Columbia, Canada |
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| Chris Arsenault | ||
| CHAPTER 11 Climate Change, Environmental Security and Inuit Peoples |
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| Heather A. Smith and Brittney Parks | ||
| CHAPTER 12 Bodies on the Line: The In/Security of Everyday Life in Aamjiwnaang |
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| Sarah Wiebe | ||