The Evolution of Environment-Conflict Research: Toward a Livelihood Framework

Tom Deligiannis
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Tom Deligiannis: Tom Deligiannis is completing his Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Environment, Peace, and Security at the UN mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Security in The Hague.

Global Environmental Politics, 2012, vol. 12, issue 1, 78-100

Abstract: The focus of qualitative environment-conflict research since the early 1990s on the state level of analysis has led to considerable uncertainty about the validity of hypothesized connections and under-specification of existing pathways inhuman-environmental change interactions. As a corrective, this article proposes a household-livelihood framework for qualitative environment-conflict research. This approach begins at the local level and then scales the analysis of social-political effects to higher levels. A household-livelihood framework also improves our understanding of many previously-ignored violent conflicts at the local level that have roots in human-environmental change. © 2012 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2012
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