Environmental Violence

Question 1

Environmental Violence

Answer 1

unsustainable use and extraction of natural resources that causes mass degradation and destruction; associated with Barnett and Adger

Question 2

Barnett and Adger: Environmental Violence

Answer 2

climate change leads to vulnerable livelihoods, poverty, weak states with an inability to create opportunities or protect people from climate change, and migration to urban areas (this increases demands of services and political pressure, thereby marginalizing those most vulnerable to c.c.), increases risks of generating violence in vulnerable areas due to livelihood contraction, undermines security by reducing access to resources and capacity of states to provide services that build peace