Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

Ide, T.; Fröhlich, C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-659-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-659-2015

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Climate, land use, and conflict in Africa

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-659-2015

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13 Oct 2015

Research article |

| 13 Oct 2015

Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

T. Ide and C. Fröhlich

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RC C402: 'Innovative article, minor revisions on methods and level of analysis', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jun 2015
RC C453: 'Interactive comment on “Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel/Palestine” by T. Ide and C. Fröhlich', Janine Romero, 31 Jul 2015
AC C491: 'Final response to the reviewers', Tobias Ide, 17 Aug 2015

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (20 Sep 2015) by Jasmin Link

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Short summary

We investigate why some social groups engage in conflicts over shared natural resources while other groups cooperate over the same issue. Drawing on evidence from the particularly puzzling case of water conflict and cooperation in Israel and Palestine, we show that the discursive construction of identities and situation assessments is a crucial explanatory factor. This finding highlights the relevance of bottom-up discursive conflict transformation.