The Environment in Conflict
Implications and Pathways
Published on 7. May 2026
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-009-65579-8 (ISBN)
Description
Conflict and environmental challenges are on the rise globally. Conflict always impacts the environment, just as the environment always shapes conflict. It is tricky to understand where, how, and why they interact, and what the implications are. This book delivers a simple but robust framework to help address these complex issues. It integrates social and environmental science, policy, and management, offering an interdisciplinary approach and toolkit to assess these issues. The chapters include a range of historical and contemporary examples to contextualize and ground the framework, covering innovative ways in which people and institutions are working on these challenges in pursuit of a flourishing human society and environment. This book will be useful for researchers, students, and anyone interested in environmental policy, international relations, and conflict and peace studies. It is designed for everyone, from experts in the field to everyday citizens about to cast a vote.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
574 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-65579-8 (9781009655798)
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Person
Richard A. Marcantonio is an Assistant Professor of Environment, Peace, and Global Affairs at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is a researcher, teacher, and practitioner focused on regenerative and durable livelihoods, environmental management and policy, environmental and other violence, and peacebuilding. He is the author of Environmental Violence: In the Earth System and the Human Niche (Cambridge University Press, 2022), co-author of the textbook Environmental Management: Concepts and Practical Skills (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and lead co-editor of Environmental Violence Explored (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Content
Acknowledgements; Foreword; Prologue; 1. The Environs of Conflict; 2. The Environment as Trigger; 3. The Environment as Neglected; 4. The Environment as Degraded; 5. The Environment as Control; 6. The Environment as a Vector of Violence; 7. Environmental Peacebuilding: Evidence and Possibilities; 8. Pathways and Implications Forward; References; Index.