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Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Contrasting Problems, Places, and Prospects
In: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace; Facing Global Environmental Change, S. 939-950
The Worst of Friends: OPEC and G-77 in the Climate Regime
In: Global environmental politics, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 1-8
ISSN: 1536-0091
In the climate change negotiations the thirteen countries that are members of OPEC obstruct progress towards reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. Although these actions undermine sustainable development in developing countries, the larger Group of 77 (G-77) coalition nevertheless tacitly supports its OPEC members in the climate regime. This article explains the connection between OPEC's interests in oil exports and its inaction on climate change, and the divergence of these interests with those of the G-77. It argues that OPEC's influence within the G-77, and therefore the climate regime, stems from the desire to maintain unity within the G-77. This unity has and is likely to continue to cost the majority of developing countries in the form delayed assistance for adaptation, the possibility of inadequate reduction in emissions under the second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, and continued dependence on increasingly expensive oil imports.
The Effect of Aid On Capacity To Adapt To Climate Change: Insights From Niue
In: Political science, Band 60, Heft 1, S. 31-45
ISSN: 2041-0611
The worst of friends: OPEC and G-77 in the climate regime
In: Global environmental politics, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 1-8
ISSN: 1526-3800
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The Effect of Aid on Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change: Insights from Niue
In: Political science, Band 60, Heft 1, S. 31-46
ISSN: 0112-8760, 0032-3187
Peace and Development: Towards a New Synthesis
In: Journal of peace research, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 75-89
ISSN: 1460-3578
This article develops a theory of peace as freedom that explains some important relationships between peace and development. It does this by critically examining and then synthesizing Johan Galtung's theory of peace as the absence of violence and Amartya Sen's theory of development as freedom. Galtung's theory of peace is clear on the meaning and causes of direct violence, but vague on the details of structural violence. Sen's theory helps overcome many of the problems associated with structural violence, although its focus on agents and the state tends to downplay the importance of larger-scale political and economic processes. In the theory of peace as freedom, peace is defined as, and in praxis is enlarged through, the equitable distribution of economic opportunities, political freedoms, social opportunities, transparency guarantees, protective security and freedom from direct violence. The institutions required for peace as freedom are considered, and it is suggested that the pluralist state is the best model for providing and maintaining peace as freedom. Some implications of this theory for existing and future analyses of the causes of violent conflict are discussed.
Peace and Development: Towards a New Synthesis
In: Journal of peace research, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 75-90
ISSN: 0022-3433
Environmental Security and Peace
In: Journal of human security, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 4-16
ISSN: 1835-3800
Titanic states?: Impacts and responses to climate change in the Pacific Islands
In: Journal of international affairs, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 203-219
ISSN: 0022-197X
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Adapting to Climate Change in Pacific Island Countries: The Problem of Uncertainty
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 29, Heft 6, S. 977-993
Adapting to climate change in Pacific Island countries: The problem of uncertainty
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 29, Heft 6, S. 977-993
ISSN: 0305-750X
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Environmental Conflict
In: Environmental politics, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 129
ISSN: 0964-4016
Destabilizing the environment—conflict thesis
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 271-288
ISSN: 1469-9044
The argument that environmental degradation will lead to conflict is a well
established concern of international studies, and it dominates the literature on environmental
security. This article critically examines theories about wars fought over scarce 'environmental'
resources, 'water wars', and the argument that population growth may induce conflict.
One significant research programme—the Project on Environment, Population and Security—
is also discussed. The article ends with an evaluation of the theoretical merits and practical
effects of the environment–conflict thesis. It argues that the environment–conflict thesis is
theoretically rather than empirically driven, and is both a product and legitimation of the
Northern security agenda.
Destabilizing the environment-conflict thesis
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 271-288
ISSN: 0260-2105
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