Drawing on a qualitative historical analysis of links between water and conflict in Sudan and South Sudan, this article critiques the emphasis on ‘scarcity’, ‘state failure’ and ‘under-development’ within discussions of environmental security. Instead, the authors propose an alternative model of environment-conflict relations centring on resource abundance and globally-embedded processes of state-building and development, based on the empirical examination of three possible linkages between water and conflict in the Sudans: over trans-boundary waters of the Nile; over the links between internal resource scarcities and civil conflict; and over the internal conflict impacts of water abundance and development.
Journal Article
Beyond Scarcity: Rethinking Water, Climate Change and Conflict in the Sudans
Regions
East and Southern AfricaCountries
South SudanRegional Hub
Central and East Africa HubDOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.008
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