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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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Research Group Climate Change and Security, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
C. Fröhlich
Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- From Bullets to Boreholes: A Disaggregated Analysis of Domestic Water Cooperation in Drought-prone Regions S. Döring
- Water Service Provision and Peacebuilding in East Timor: Exploring the Socioecological Determinants for Sustaining Peace F. Krampe & S. Gignoux
- (De)constructing meanings and pathways of water and peace L. Turley et al.
- Climate-induced stressors to peace: a review of recent literature A. Sharifi et al.
- Conflict and cooperation in the water‐security nexus: a global comparative analysis of river basins under climate change P. Link et al.
- Perspectives on contextual vulnerability in discourses of climate conflict U. Okpara et al.
- Interstate environmental peacebuilding: A systematic review A. Balinskaia
- Environmental neglect: Other casualties of post-war infrastructure development L. Chan et al.
- Research methods for exploring the links between climate change and conflict T. Ide
- Putting diplomacy at the forefront of Water Diplomacy H. Hussein et al.
- ‘Nature Knows No Boundaries’: The Role of Nature Conservation in Peacebuilding A. Roulin et al.
- Toward Sustainable Peace: A New Research Agenda for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management F. Krampe
- Construction of environmental discourse concerning Europe in China S. Wang & L. Yang
- Implementation Constraints on Israel–Palestine Water Cooperation: An Analysis Using the Water Governance Assessment Framework L. Dai
- Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk S. Michelini
- Water for peace? Post-conflict water resource management in Kosovo F. Krampe
- Potential Land-Use Conflicts in the Urban Center of Chongqing Based on the “Production–Living–Ecological Space” Perspective T. Liang et al.
- Water security in the polycrisis: between negative and positive tipping points J. Scheffran
- Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding F. Krampe et al.
- A Transdisciplinary Approach to Identifying Transboundary Tipping Points in a Contentious Area: Experiences from across the Jordan River Region J. Rodriguez Lopez et al.
- Does environmental peacemaking between states work? Insights on cooperative environmental agreements and reconciliation in international rivalries T. Ide
- Three ways social identity shapes climate change adaptation J. Barnett et al.
- Space, discourse and environmental peacebuilding T. Ide
- Spatial characteristics and risk factor identification for land use spatial conflicts in a rapid urbanization region in China D. Zhou et al.
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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.
We investigate why some social groups engage in conflicts over shared natural resources while...
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