PA51B:
Conflict Ecology and the Environment-Conflict Nexus Posters


Session ID#: 9141

Session Description:
The last year saw impressive advancements in our understanding of the diverse relationships between armed conflict and environmental change. Whether through the thematic lens of land degradation, demography, climate change, governance, or energy consumption, for example, such scholarship commonly leveraged the social with the physical. In embracing such radical interdisciplinarity, these studies developed a more robust examination of the environment-conflict nexus than could be reached from within traditional disciplinary confines. However, lingering and critical issues of cause-and-effect and geographic specificity of asserted environment-conflict relationships have impeded theoretical advancement while garnering worthwhile critique. Building on the successful 2014 AGU Union session on Conflict Ecology, we will collaboratively explore this emergent field’s epistemological and ontological limitations and identify means for constructing actionable science and narratives of socio-environmental change for vulnerable communities.
Primary Convener:  Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University, Geography Program, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Convener:  Madeeha Merchant, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Chairs:  Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University, Geography Program, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Madeeha Merchant, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University, Geography Program, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings) [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Narco-scapes: Cocaine Trafficking and Deforestation in Central America (82166)
David Wrathall1, Kendra McSweeney2, Erik Nielsen3 and Zoe Pearson2, (1)United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Colombus, OH, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, School or Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Mountainous terrain and violent conflict in the post-Soviet Caucasus. (82427)
Frank D.W. Witmer, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, Andrew M. Linke, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Edward Holland, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States and John O'Loughlin, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States
Climate Change In The Fertile Crescent And Implications Of The Recent Drought In Syria (Invited) (60685)
Colin P Kelley, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Shahrzad Mohtadi, White House, Washington DC, United States, Mark A Cane, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Yochanan Kushnir, Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY, United States
New Evidence on the Relationship Between Climate and Conflict (Invited) (84608)
Marshall Burke, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States

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