Beyond resource wars : scarcity, environmental degradation, and international cooperation / / edited by Shlomi Dinar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781306203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011
• ISBN: 1-283-16880-4; 9786613168801; 0-262-29550-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Collana: Global environmental accord : strategies for sustainability and institutional innovation
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetti: Environmental policy - International cooperation; Environmental management - International cooperation; Environmental protection - International cooperation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Resource scarcity and environmental degradation : analyzing international conflict and cooperation / Shlomi Dinar -- Climate change, cooperation, and resource scarcity / Robert Mendelsohn -- Ozone depletion : international cooperation over a degraded resource / Elizabeth R. DeSombre -- Biodiversity protection in international negotiations : cooperation and conflict / G. Kristin Rosendal -- Transboundary cooperation to address acid rain : Europe, North America, and East Asia compared / Miranda A. Schreurs -- Conflict and cooperation in the Mediterranean : MAP from 1975 to today / Gabriela Kütting -- Degradation and cooperation on the high seas : the case of international fisheries management / J. Samuel Barkin -- Conflict and cooperation along international rivers : scarcity, bargaining strategies, and negotiation / Shlomi Dinar -- Is oil worth fighting for? Evidence from three cases / Christopher J. Fettweis -- Responses to alternative forms of mineral scarcity : conflict and cooperation / Deborah J. Shields and Slavko V. Šolar -- Resource scarcity and environmental degradation : implications for the development of international cooperation / Shlomi Dinar.
• Sommario/riassunto: Common wisdom holds that the Earth's dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental degradation will inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly even set off 'resource wars'. This book offers a different perspective on the links between environmental problems and inter-state conflict.