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Global Resources and International Conflict: Environmental Factors in Strategic Policy and Action

by Arthur H. Westing

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Natural resources as a strategic force in international conflict

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Natural resources as a strategic force in international conflict

Edited by Arthur H. Westing, this volume connects environmental conditions to the calculations of security and military policy. It examines how the location, scarcity, depletion, and unequal distribution of key resources can shape relationships among states, from rivalries and alliances to the possibility of war. Oil, natural gas, minerals, fresh water, fisheries, and food crops provide the book’s substantive framework, while differential population growth is considered as a factor affecting both actual supplies and perceptions of availability. Published in 1986, the collection presents international security through an environmental and resource-centered lens.

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  • Readers studying military strategy and international security
  • Students of environmental politics and resource scarcity
  • Researchers interested in energy, water, food, and conflict

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Resource scarcityEnvironmental securityInternational conflictStrategic policyPopulation growth

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This volume examines the extent to which global deficiencies and degradation of natural resources, coupled with their uneven distribution, can lead to unlikely alliances, national rivalries, and even war. The study evaluates the influence of such factors as geographical distribution, availability, scarcity, and depletion of the world's natural resources--including oil, natural gas, minerals, fresh water, ocean fisheries, and food crops--on strategic and military policy-making. Westing also studies the effect of differential population growth on the actual and perceived availability of resources and presents an expanded, environmentally based view of international security.
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