Environmental Conflict

Paul Diehl is Professor of Political Science and University "Distinguished Teacher/Scholar" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan in 1983 and has held faculty positions at the University of Georgia and SUNY-Albany. Nils Petter Gleditsch was trained as a sociologist at the University of Oslo. He is a Research Professor at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and edits one of the leading journals in the field, the bi-monthly Journal of Peace Research. He is also Professor of International Relations at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

• 1 Controversies and Questions -- Part I Environmental Degradation as a Source of Conflict -- 2 The Case of South Africa -- 3 Causal Pathways to Conflict -- 4 Demographic Pressure and Interstate Conflict -- 5 Demography, Environment, and Security -- 6 Water and Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality -- 7 Resource Constraints or Abundance? -- Part II The Reduction of Environmental Conflict -- 8 Democracy and the Environment -- 9 The Limits and Promise of Environmental Conflict Prevention -- 10 Fair Division in the Spratly Islands Conflict -- 11 Environmental Cooperation and International Peace -- Part III Environmental Conflict: A Future Research Agenda -- 12 Armed Conflict and the Environment -- 13 The Environment and Violent Conflict