Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa

A Case Study of Farmer-Herder Conflicts over Natural Resources in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina Faso 1960–2000

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Charlène Cabot, Charlene Cabot

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In the wake of climate change, rising temperatures, increasingly irregular rainfall and more frequent natural hazards will endanger the ways of life of vulnerable population groups in this region and destabilize their human security.A surge in violence and conflicts could take place.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-29
Mått210 x 279 x 10 mm
Vikt582 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
Antal sidor190
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN9783662568545

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CharlèneCabot (born 1988 in France) completed her undergraduate studies in Politicaland Social Sciences at Sciences Po Paris and at the University of Sydney. MsCabot subsequently obtained a double Master’s degree in International Relationsfrom Sciences Po Paris and the Free University of Berlin with a major inSustainable Development and Environmental Politics (2011). Ms Cabot joined the United Nations World Food Programme(WFP) in December 2011. After working inGermany, Senegal, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and in the Policy andProgramme Division at WFP headquarters, she is currently based in N’Djamena (Chad).

From the Contents: Part 1: The climate induced Degradation and increased Scarcity of Resources as Factors challenging security.- Introduction into current Climate Change, Conflict Concerns and Farmer-Herder Conflicts.- Literature Review: Causal Linkages between Environmental Change and Conflict.- Part 2: Theoretical Background: The Importance of Political Factors in a precarious Human and Environmental Security challenged by global, regional and local Environmental Changes.- Theoretical Prisms: Human and Environmental Security and Conflict Reduction.- The Role of Political Factors in Undermining or Maintaining Environmental and Human Security in a context of Climate Change.- Part 3: Case Study: Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.- Background Information.- Methodological Approach to the Case Study.- Study of the three Research Hypotheses in the three selected Countries.