Ecoviolence: Links Among Environment, Population, and Security
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Hibbing, University of Nebraska Throughout Ecoviolence, the various authors usually give carefully constructed accounts that avoid overstating the environmental case. Ecoviolence gives a much better picture of how environmental concerns can produce frequently unmanageable civil wars and regional warfare.
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Thus, Palestinian resentments in Gaza were caused not only by a great disparity in political power and economic success, but also in access to renewable natural resources. Comparatively, the Gazan situation is far more desperate than that of the West Bank because Gaza's aquifer is quite shallow, a few feet from the surface, very polluted and heavily depleted.
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Basically, the Gaza Strip needs an alternate source of water in a contentious and arid region. The lack of decent water has caused a litany of health problems and has crippled the agricultural industry, formerly a Gazan mainstay.
Even the option of working in Israel is now considerably diminished since the percentage of Gazan workers employed in Israel dropped from a pre-Intifada level of 70 percent before to a mere 11 percent in Unemployment in the Gaza Strip grew to a dangerous 60 percent, an ominous figure given the continual civil war with Israel. All in all, the Gaza Strip could become an unmanageable terrorist threat to Israel since a root cause, water, is becoming a more severe problem every day.
As for South Africa, Valerie Percival and Thomas Homer-Dixon offer compelling evidence that ecological factors have contributed to massive outbreaks of violence. Specifically, the Kwa Zulu-Natal black homeland has been devastated by a lack of electricity, tremendous soil erosion, significant deforestation and widespread water scarcity.
Hibbing, University of Nebraska Both the introduction and the case studies are illuminating and can be recommended as baskgrounds to investigations of environmental security. Detailed contemporary studies of civil violence in Chiapas, Gaza, South Africa, Pakistan, and Rwanda show how environmental scarcity has played a limited to significant role in causing social instability in each of these contexts. Whereas the case studies on specific regions are tightly focused, Ecoviolence loses some contextual insight in the broadly based chapters on Pakistan and Rwanda. The lack of decent water has caused a litany of health problems and has crippled the agricultural industry, formerly a Gazan mainstay. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Group loyalties were reinforced by the harsh struggle for survival, and the Natal region was largely abandoned by the ruling National Party in Currently, warlords who specialize in capturing scarce resources rule many informal, poor settlements. It remains an open question whether the current ruling ANC party can develop a more effective ecological policy and decrease the omnipresent violence in former homelands like Natal.
Whereas the case studies on specific regions are tightly focused, Ecoviolence loses some contextual insight in the broadly based chapters on Pakistan and Rwanda.
Most of the Pakistan information is a recital of ecological issues in developing nations: As for Rwanda, some of the same issues are detailed. However, the book achieves a sense of balance by concluding that environmental issues were only limited factors in the recent Tutsi vs. This mids battle, which ended in genocide, was largely based on more traditional social divisions. Throughout Ecoviolence , the various authors usually give carefully constructed accounts that avoid overstating the environmental case. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the authors of Ecology, Politics, and Violent Conflict.
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While Ecoviolence gives deep insight into a handful of regional conflicts, Ecology attempts to give knowledge of the entire globe and thereby casts its net far too widely. For example, in order to debunk the myth that ethnicity is natural and therefore an inherent cause of conflict, Nicholas Hildyard breezily flies through more than a dozen examples in the space of a few pages. Adam added it Apr 30, Ali Don marked it as to-read Mar 28, Sanaullah Khan marked it as to-read Jul 21, Braden marked it as to-read Apr 24, Alexandra Herkenhoff marked it as to-read Jan 10, Tess marked it as to-read Nov 04, Emilia marked it as to-read Mar 21, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Ecoviolence explores links between environmental scarcities of key renewable resources_such as cropland, fresh water, and forests_and violent rebellions, insurgencies, and ethnic clashes in developing countries. Detailed contemporary studies of civil violence in Chiapas, Gaza. Ecoviolence explores links between environmental scarcities of key renewal resources - such as cropland, fresh water and forests - and violent rebellions.
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