The origins of the Syrian conflict climate change and human security /

"This book puts forward a new framework for evaluating the climate-conflict hypothesis that examines the interactions between environmental, economic, and sociopolitical factors at the roots of the Syrian uprising (2011). The Human-Environmental-Climate Security (HECS) framework adopts a critic...

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Main Author: Daoudy, Marwa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Physical Description:
xiii, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Water security -- Syria.
Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Syria.
Food security -- Political aspects -- Syria.
Climatic changes -- Syria.
Human security -- Syria.
Syria -- Environmental conditions.
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Environmental aspects.
Contents:
  • Climate change and the Syrian revolution
  • Many faces of environmental security
  • When geography rules history
  • Rules of ideology and policy : from Ba'athism to the liberal age
  • Vulnerability and resilience : human-environmental-climate security (HECS) in Syria
  • Syria : a (hi)story of vulnerability, resistance, and resilience.

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