The Mediterranean and neighboring countries are already experiencing a broad range of
natural and man-made threats to water security. According to climate projections, the region …

While it has been forcefully argued that the world is generally becoming more peaceful (eg
Gleditsch 2008; Pinker 2011), the debate on climate change raises the specter of a new …

Recent cross-national studies have found only moderate support for the idea that population
pressure and resource scarcity may lead to political violence, contrary to much of the case …

The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, theories, approaches,
processes, and intervention designs in the field. The central theme is the value of …

The proposition that environmental scarcity causes violent conflict attracts both popular and
academic interest. Neomalthusian writers have developed theoretical arguments explaining …

Abstract Changes in climate, along with anthropogenic pressures, impact vegetation
productivity and the related ecosystem services on which human security relies. The impacts …

West Kalimantan (West Borneo) has a history of violent communal conflict. 1 It also has
extensive forests that have been looted for decades. The argument will be that these two are …

The history of environmental security studies presented in the introduction reveals that
environmental security means different things to different people. My task in this chapter is to …

We examine the interactions of non-state actors (specifically pastoralists and farmers) when
state provided property-rights protection (PRP) is neither perfect nor absent. PRP is modeled …

The following article analyzes violent political conflicts. Starting from theoretical debates on
the determinants of violent conflicts, it focuses on intrastate conflicts. The main explanatory …