The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflicts

Arturo Escobar examines the increasing number of conflicts over natural resources around the world in response to neo-liberal globalization. He argues that such escalating environmental conflicts can be conceptually understood through three…

Examines the relationship between natural resources & conflict in various countries, particularly the idea that the better governance of resource sectors can enhance conflict prevention & resolution. The case of Iraq is examined for insight to the…

This contribution questions some of the arguments in the recent literature on natural resources and conflicts, which attribute the emergence of armed conflict and civil wars largely to a ploy by protagonists to exploit the natural resources in a…

Political ecology research tends to focus on rural communities. However, the paradigm is also useful in understanding the ecologies of urban and peri-urban settlements. We argue, through a case illustration of a peri-urban squatter community in…

Current patterns of natural resource use in developing countries reflect both the structural demands of the national and international economy and local interactions between rural communities and their natural environments The example of small-scale…

Although India's Jharkhand movement resists classification as either an ethnic or an environmental movement, it has, at different times, mobilised clear elements of both with frequently violent outcomes. This paper examines the movement from a…

The matter under studies was the way accelerated senescence of armed conflicts participants with brain injuries depends on alcohol addiction developed after the injuries and on dysfunction of neurohumoral regulation of heart activity. It has been…

Between 1830 and 1880 copal was the major trade commodity from mainland Tanzania apart from ivory. Unlike ivory, copal was a product of a distinct environment, the lowland forests of the East African coastal hinterland. This region's copal was the…

Current medical definitions of health and disease are inadequate for an understanding of public health problems. The narrowest attribute causa tion to agents of disease (e.g., germ theory); the widest (e.g., medical ecology) take into account some…

The authors propose a framework to analyze the terrain of political relationships and actions in which environmental strategies and practices are embedded. The framework constitutes the political ecology of organizations. The concept of an…