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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


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SECTION 1: ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY THEORY AND PRACTICE Ìý

Critical Environmental Security: Rethinking the Links Between Natural Resources and Political Violence
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Ìý Matthew A. Schnurr and Larry A. Swatuk Ìý

Institutional Constraints, Violence and Environmental Security: Some Conceptual and Empirical Observations
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Ìý Jorge Nef and O.P. Dwivedi Ìý

The Evolution of Environment-Conflict Research
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Ìý Tom Deligiannis Ìý

What are We Really Looking For? From Eco-Violence to Environmental Injustice
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Ìý Peter Stoett Ìý

Climatic Security and the Tipping Point Conception of the Earth System
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Ìý Chris Russill Ìý

Insecurities of Non-Dominance: Re-Theorizing Human Security and Environmental Change in Developed States
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Ìý Wilfrid Greaves Ìý
SECTION 2: RESOURCE CONFLICTS Ìý

Water and Human Security in Africa
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Ìý Larry Swatuk and Dominic Mazvimavi Ìý

Sexual Violence, Coltan and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Ìý Shelly Whitman Ìý

‘The Elephant in the Room’: Peak Oil on the Security Agenda
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Ìý Shane Mulligan Ìý

Dirty Security? Tar Sands, Energy Security and Environmental Violence
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Ìý Philippe Le Billon and Angela Carter Ìý
SECTION 3: THE WEAK IN A WORLD OF THE STRONG Ìý

Loud Bangs and Quiet Canadians: An Analysis of Oil Patch Sabotage in British Columbia, Canada
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Ìý Chris Arsenault Ìý

Climate Change, Environmental Security and Inuit Peoples
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Ìý Heather A. Smith and Brittney Parks Ìý

Bodies on the Line: The In/Security of Everyday Life in Aamjiwnaang
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Ìý Sarah Wiebe Ìý

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