Environmental Conflict and Cooperation: Premise, Purpose, Persuasion, and Promise

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James Lee

Environmental Conflict and Cooperation

Premise, Purpose, Persuasion, and Promise

James Lee

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Routledge
25 June 2019

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Management of land & natural resources; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Environmental Conflict and Cooperation explores the evolution of environmental conflict as a field of research and the study of cooperation as an alternative to war.

Over four key parts, James R. Lee navigates the contours of this growing field and paints a vivid framework for better understanding issues around environmental conflict and security:

• The premise of the field and its historic manifestations

• The definition and purpose of research

• The persuasions or types of environmental conflict and cooperation

• The promise of research in leading to better decision-making and to broaching new challenges.

Over the course of these parts, the author outlines the deep historic record of this discipline, arguing that it will play a key role in understanding important future trends. Utilizing a wide variety of case studies that range from ancient examples, including conflict over the Cedars of Lebanon and the role of tin in the Peloponnesian Wars, to future-oriented scenarios, including expanded island-building in the South China Sea and the global politics of geo-engineering, Lee highlights key concepts, metrics, and policy contexts that will test current understandings. He also examines a variety of research methods and provides examples of the ways in which such research can be used to inform policy improvements.

This book will draw specific interest from students and scholars of environmental conflict and cooperation, as well as researchers of environmental politics and security studies.

By: James Lee
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780815352495
ISBN 10: 0815352492
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 25 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I The premise of environmental conflict 1 The ancient roots of environmental conflict 2 An environmental conflict story 3 Why a book on environmental conflict? Part II The purpose of environmental conflict 4 Defining environmental conflict 5 The dimensions of environmental conflict 6 Stages of environmental conflict research 7 What is a field and why does it grow? Is there a field of environmental conflict? PART III Persuasions of environmental conflict 8 Ten agreed upon assumptions 9 Pictures of the field 10 Types of cases 11 Visualizing the field through dimensional plots PART IV The promise of environmental conflict 12 Where do we go from here? 13 Using scenarios for problem solving 14 Future cases of environmental conflict and cooperation 15 Will the future surprise us? Appendix A: ICE coding categories Appendix B: Ranked data points used in plots Index

James R. Lee is a Researcher in Residence, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC, USA.

Reviews for Environmental Conflict and Cooperation: Premise, Purpose, Persuasion, and Promise

"""This book is a first and authoritative attempt to lay out a top-down view describing the field of environmental conflict and cooperation. It also makes the strong case that such a field exists and will become much more important. It is a fantastic companion reader to the bottom-up work I edited, the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding."" –Ashok Swain, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden"