PIP: This paper provides a summary of the article," The Environment and Violent Conflict: A
Response to Gleditsch's Critique and Some Suggestions for Future Research". Written by …

The diminution of some traditional security issues at the end of the Cold War and the
emergence of environmental concerns on the international agenda have merged to create a …

AS THE REVIEWS IN THIS REPORT SHOW, SCHOLARSHIP ON ENVIRONMENT AND
SECURITY LINKS IS THRIVING. This is an enormously positive development, and scholars …

Disputes among scholars about how to conceptualize environmental stress have long
hindered research on the links between this stress and violent conflict. Nils Petter Gleditsch …

In the spring of 1994—only weeks following the debacle in Mogadishu and only months
before a similar event would take place in Haiti—Robert D. Kaplan wrote a stirring article in …

The claim that environmental factors should be integrated into the concept of security was
first made in the early 1980s (for example by Richard Ullman). By the early 1990s, asecond …

Methods• The multiple methodologies applied to the environment as a cause of conflict
thesis have identified a number of causal pathways, both general and case specific, with a …

Conflict over scarce resources, such as minerals, fish, water, and particularly territory, is a
traditional source of armed struggle. Recently, wideranging claims have been made to the …

Apart from the role of territory in interstate armed conflict, and to some extent the
demographic factors, there is very little systematic research on the effects or resource or …

Environmental Change and Acute Conflict I 77 of sub-issues, especially if we define
“security” broadly to include human physical, social, and economic well-being.* We can …