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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 鈥淓nvironmental Violence and Conflict: Implications for Global Security,鈥 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


SECTION 1: ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY THEORY AND PRACTICE

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

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

The Evolution of Environment-Conflict Research
Tom Deligiannis

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

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

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

Water and Human Security in Africa
Larry Swatuk and Dominic Mazvimavi

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

鈥楾he Elephant in the Room鈥: Peak Oil on the Security Agenda
Shane Mulligan

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

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

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

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