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Conflict Resolution is one of the fastest growing academic fields in the world today. Although it is a relatively young discipline, having emerged as a specialized field in the 1950s, it has rapidly grown into a self-contained, vibrant, interdisciplinary field. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution brings together all the conceptual, methodological, and substantive elements of Conflict Resolution into one volume of 35 specially commissioned chapters. The Handbook is designed to reflect where the field is today by drawing on the contributions of experts from different fields, presenting, in a systematic way, the most recent research and practice.
Resolving Ecological Conflicts: Typical and Special Circumstances
Resolving Ecological Conflicts: Typical and Special Circumstances
Environmental issues are of mounting importance in international politics. The present worldwide great concern with climate warming is a stark manifestation of this development. Ultimately coping with environmental problems is a struggle against nature. Successful abatement requires some sort of intervention in an ecological system. In order to, say, slow down or eliminate climate warming, stop the depletion of the ozone layer in the atmosphere, or avoid damage of groundwater resources, instrumental technology has to be developed and applied. If policy makers do not have access to the necessary technical means to struggle with nature successfully, their political intentions and declarations to stop environmental degradation are futile.
However, ecological conflict may also represent ...
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