Towards methodological pluralism an empirical evaluation of research methods for assessing the link between climate change and violent conflict
Hamburg, Univ., FB Geowiss., Diss. 2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Hamburg, Univ., FB Geowiss., Diss. 2015 An intensive debate on the possible implications of climate change for peace and conflict has been taking place in the scholarly and political community for several years. This dissertation advances the debate on a potential climate-conflict nexus within states (or in spaces characterized by limited statehood) by focusing on the scarcity of renewable, natural resources and the associated socioenvironmental conflict and cooperation dynamics. The three methods Geographic Information System (GIS)-based risk analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and discourse analysis are introduced and empirically applied to analyze the links between climate change, resource scarcity, conflict, violence and cooperation. All three methods are well-established in geography and peace and conflict studies and seem promising for investigating a potential climate-conflict nexus, but have hardly or not at all been used in the research field so far. After empirically applying these methods, they are compared to each other as well as to the widely used methods of regression analysis and case study. By doing so, this dissertation aims at evaluating the suitability as well as the specific advantadges and deficits of the different methods in the research on climate change and violent conflict. In the second part of the third study, the discursive framework is extended beyond the realm of socio-environmental conflict in order to analyze water-related cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian communities under the Good Water Neighbours (GWN) project. |
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