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Perspectives on contextual vulnerability in discourses of climate conflict
U. T. Okpara
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Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Agricultural Economics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
L. C. Stringer
Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
A. J. Dougill
Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty M. Martiskainen et al. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102728
- Pathways to water conflict during drought in the MENA region T. Ide et al. 10.1177/0022343320910777
- Addressing the Environment-Peace Nexus A. Tirrell et al. 10.1080/10402659.2021.1953802
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- A review of the climate change-disaster-conflict nexus and humanitarian framing of complex displacement contexts S. See et al. 10.1080/17565529.2025.2514027
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We draw on the premise that climate conflict reflects a continuum of conditional forces that often coalesce around the notion of vulnerability to show how vulnerability is portrayed in the discursive formation of climate conflict relations. Comparing three discourse types, we illustrate that a turn towards contextual vulnerability thinking will help advance a constructivist theory-informed climate conflict scholarship that recognises historicity, specificity and variability.
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