Ecoviolence
Shrinking Pie, or Honey Pot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12754355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Indra De Soysa (0000-0003-2751-4223, House of Representatives, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1-34 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1526-3800 • E-ISSN: 1536-0091 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/152638002320980605 |
| OpenAlex | W2154274780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 42 |
Some claim that the scarcity of natural resources, particularly renewable resources, is a “causal mechanism” behind civil war. Recent work in development studies and political science suggest that relative abundance of natural resources cause broad-based socio-economic and political problems, while some using microeconomic theories even blame abundance directly for motivating “loot-seeking” rebellion and allowing the finance of large-scale armed violence. Using a host of alternative measures of natural capital wealth, disaggregated as renewable and nonrenewable, this study finds that an abundance of renewable resources, not its scarcity, leads to violence and to lower economic, human, and institutional development. The abundance of mineral resources is consistently associated with higher levels of conflict and lower levels of human and institutional development. The results raise serious doubts about the concept of “ecoviolence” as theorized hither to. Future research should trace the processes through which the “honey pot” of abundant resources promotes bad governance, inequity, poverty, environmental degradation, and conflict. The good news is that human greed and folly, not mother nature, is still the problem for peace. The bad news is that mother nature will continue to suffer given difficulties associated with controlling human nature
Biology · Blame · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Market economy · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Rent-seeking · Scarcity · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Political Conflict and Governance · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Ecology
Weaponising insecurity
Climate Change, Population Drift and Violent Conflict over Land Resources in Northeastern Nigeria
Oil abundance and violent political conflict
Material Sources of Grand Strategy
Climate change, migration and violent conflict
Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
Integrating the Quantitative Research on the Onset and Incidence of Violent Intrastate Conflicts
Defenders of the woods? Women and the complex dynamics of a worker-peasantry in western Zimbabwe
Fool’s Gold
Unraveling the spatial patterns of water conflicts in Africa through a multi-scale lens
Understanding the role of policy frameworks in developing land degradation in stakeholders perception from a post‐conflict perspective in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Negotiating Peace Agreements
Population Pressure, Horizontal Inequality and Political Violence
To share or not to share? (non-)violence, scarcity and resource access in Somali Region, Ethiopia
A Demographic Peace? Youth Bulges and Other Population-Related Causes of Domestic Conflict
When Ambiguity in Treaty Design Becomes Destructive
Analyzing Spatial Drivers in Quantitative Conflict Studies
Blood, timber, and the state in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
The resource-conflict debate revisited
Climate shocks and political violence
Sustainability
Geographic Opportunity and Neomalthusian Willingness
Resource Curse in Reverse
Dangerous Development
Natural Resource Types and Conflict Termination Initiatives
People vs. Malthus
Environmental peacebuilding
Environmental changes and violent conflict
Anchored in History
Artisanal mining, conflict, and sexual violence in Eastern DRC
Climatic disruptions, natural resources, and conflict
Dynamics of Resource Governance, Climate Change, and Security
Development paths of drylands
Environmental Degradation and Genocide, 1958–2007
Conditional Relationships Between Drought and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Complex Landscapes and Oil Curse Research
Ecological Politics, Violence, and the Theme of Empire
The ‘voracious dragon’, the ‘scramble’ and the ‘honey pot’
Green giant or straw man? Environmental pressure and civil conflict, 1961–99
Conceptualising eco-violence
Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource Wars
Exchanging the shepherd’s staff for AK-47
Beyond Climate Security
Population, Resources, and Political Violence
Conditions for Peace and Conflict
Sunshine or Curse? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Individual Corruption Experiences in Africa
What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse
La goutte d’eau qui fait déborder
Will There Be Enough Food and Meat for the People? Assessing the Effects of Farmer-Herder Conflicts on Food Security in Ghana
When We Believe in State Power, It Tends to Fail Us
Foliage and fighting
Trends and triggers
Geographies of War
Close-up on renewable resources and armed conflict
Water resources, institutions, & intrastate conflict
Economic sanctions
Climate change, violent conflict and local institutions in Kenya's drylands
What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War
Blood and Soil? Resource Scarcity and Internal Armed Conflict Revisited
A Chinese resource curse? The human rights effects of oil export dependence on China versus the United States
International Resource Conflict and Mitigation
Resource Curse or Rentier Peace? The Ambiguous Effects of Oil Wealth and Oil Dependence on Violent Conflict
The New Research on Civil Wars
Resource Entitlement and Mobility of Pastoralists in the Yerer and Daketa Valleys, Eastern Ethiopia
Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth
Power, growth, and the voracity effect
Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and economic growth
Idea gaps and object gaps in economic development
On the mechanics of economic development
On economic causes of civil war
The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing
The curse of natural resources
Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries
Determinants of Economic Growth
An Ecological and Historical Perspective on Agricultural Development in Southeast Asia
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
Exporting manufactures
Greed and grievance in civil war
Greed and Grievance
Violence and Economic Agendas in Civil Wars
Understanding African politics
Does natural resource abundance increase Latin American income inequality
Population Growth, Environmental Degradation, and State-Sponsored Violence
The Coming Age of Scarcity
The Banality of “Ethnic War
A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth
Insights and Pitfalls
The Political Economy of the Resource Curse
Rebellion as a Quasi-Criminal Activity
Postmodernism, Civic Engagement, and Ethnic Conflict
The political ecology of war
Armed Conflict, 1989-2000
Armed Conflict and The Environment
Beyond Environmental Scarcity
The Geography of Civil War
Resource Scarcity and Conflict in Developing Countries
Armed Conflict, 1989-2002
Tracking Democracy's Third Wave with the Polity III Data
Civil War in the Post-Colonial World, 1946-92
Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,78 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |