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Three Generations of Environment and Security Research

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  • Carsten F. Rønnfeldt

    (Fridtjof Nansen Institute & Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)

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The claim that environmental factors should be integrated into the concept of security was first made in the early 1980s (for example by Richard Ullman). By the early 1990s, a `second generation' approach appeared, aiming at identifying the causal pathways from environmental scarcity to conflict by means of empirical case studies (for example by Thomas Homer-Dixon and the Toronto Group). This essay reviews the issues raised in the literature of these two approaches - the initial debate and the empirical studies - and goes on to examine a number of conceptual critiques. The emerging `third generation' draws attention to improved methodology, including the comparative study of cooperation as well as conflict as a response to environmental scarcity, which in turn focuses attention on the nature of regimes and of the role of the `state-in-society'.

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  • Carsten F. Rønnfeldt, 1997. "Three Generations of Environment and Security Research," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 34(4), pages 473-482, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:34:y:1997:i:4:p:473-482
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