Divided Environments - Softcover

Selby, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009107607 ISBN 13: 9781009107600

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine, heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political and violent conflict; indeed, many claim that this future is already with us. Divided Environments, however, shows that this is mistaken. Focusing especially on the links between climate change, water and security, and drawing on detailed evidence from Israel-Palestine, Syria, Sudan and elsewhere, it shows both that mainstream environmental security narratives are misleading, and that the actual security implications of climate change are very different from how they are often imagined. Addressing themes as wide-ranging as the politics of droughts, the contradictions of capitalist development and the role of racism in environmental change, while simultaneously articulating an original 'international political ecology' approach to the study of socio-environmental conflicts, Divided Environments offers a new and important interpretation of our planetary future.

About this title

About the Authors

Jan Selby is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.

Gabrielle Daoust is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, St Francis Xavier University.

Clemens Hoffmann is a Lecturer in International Politics in the Division of History, Heritage and Politics, University of Stirling.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009107607
• ISBN 13: 9781009107600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362