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  title info:
    title: Violence Through Environmental Discrimination
    sub title: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model
  name:
    name part: Baechler, Günther.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (236 pages)
  abstract: The degradation of renewables - land and freshwater - worldwide leads to conflict over access and/or distribution of these resources. However, not all conflicts become violent. Environmentally-caused violence is hardly found in relations between states. Today, mainly in developing countries, there is a correlation between environmental degradation and violent conflicts. As this synthesis of 40 case studies indicates, there are different causal pathways of current violent conflicts and wars that can be traced to the environmental roots of the conflict. Rwanda is a good example to demonstrate the interaction of ethnic, social, political and ecological factors. Whereas most studies in this field focus on classical security issues, the author here puts an emphasis on growing structural heterogeneity in agricultural societies which tend to discriminate chiefly against those rural producers who are the victims of bad resource allocations, unequal resource distribution, high dependence on natural capital, and bad state performance. One major conclusion to be discussed among scholars, teachers, and advanced students and to be taken seriously by professionals in international organizations is the following: competing land tenure systems, unclear property rights, large-scale farming, and nationalizing land by discriminating against small-holders, pastoralists, the landless, etc. provide a considerable potential for conflict and, thus, contribute to unsustainable resource use, social unrest, and political instability.
  note: by Günther Baechler.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
  subject:
    topic: Environmental law
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
  subject:
    topic: Environmental law
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  classification: QC902.8-903.2
  classification: 577.27
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Social indicators research series ; 2
  identifier: 9789401591751 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 940159175X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048151448
  identifier: 9048151449
  identifier: 940159175X
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130107
    record change date: 20260422164947.7
    record identifier: in00003571300
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng