An International Environmental Conflict on the Danube: The Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Dams

1993 ◽  
pp. 176-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judit Galambos
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conflict

Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Moral Culture ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Basic Level

This introductory chapter briefly presents the conflict in Yellowstone, elaborates on the book's theoretical argument, and specifies its substantive and theoretical contributions to the social scientific study of environment, culture, religion, and morality. The chapter argues that the environmental conflict in Yellowstone is not—as it would appear on the surface—ultimately all about scientific, economic, legal, or other technical evidence and arguments, but an underlying struggle over deeply held “faith” commitments, feelings, and desires that define what people find sacred, good, and meaningful in life at a most basic level. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

scholarly journals Assessing the Uncertainty of Hydropower-Environmental Conflict-Resolution Management under Climate Change

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 2114
Author(s):  
Yuni Xu ◽  
Yu Hui
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Reservoir Operation ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Optimal Operation ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Climate Scenarios ◽  
Water Demands ◽  
Environmental Conflict Resolution ◽  
Decision Behaviors

To balance the water demands of different departments and produce a win–win result for reservoir operation, a series of conflict-resolution methods have been developed to define the socio-optimal operation strategy for specific conflict problems. However, given the inherent uncertainty of reservoir operation brought by climate change, the compromised strategies selected by conflict-resolution methods can vary. Therefore, quantifying the impacts of climate change on the decision characteristics of conflict-resolution methods can help to address questions about whether conflict-resolution decisions are sustainable given unforeseen changes. In this study, the Yangtze River is regarded as study area. As a world-class hydropower project located on the midstream of Yangtze River, Three Gorges Hydroelectric Power Station can transfer plenty of water energy into electricity. To alleviate the ecological water shortage caused by hydropower operation, sustainable and balanced operation strategies considering the water demands of two departments needs to be studied. In the context of hydropower-environmental conflict-resolution management, the decision behaviors of two fuzzy social choice methods and four game-theoretical bargaining methods under 25 kinds of future climate scenarios are analyzed. Comparing the strategy selection results of different methods for a future period (2021–2082) shows that in all proposed climate scenarios, the decisions of the Nash bargaining method, alternating offer method, and unanimity fallback bargaining method in game-theoretical bargaining methods are more stable than other studied methods, which means that climate change affects the decision behaviors of these three methods slightly. In addition, balanced strategies selected by these three methods could formulate adaptable reservoir operation policies that would satisfy the interests of hydropower and environmental stakeholders equally, and avoid a very low satisfaction level of individual stakeholder and whole stakeholders in the water-conflict year. Therefore, against the background of an increasing demand for environmental protection, these three methods can provide socio-optimal strategies considering social and economic benefits for water resource management.

Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict: A cautionary tale

2021 ◽  
pp. 096366252098513
Author(s):  
Claire Konkes ◽  
Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
James Cook ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Tenured Position

When Australian physicist, Peter Ridd, lost his tenured position with James Cook University, he was called a ‘whistleblower’, ‘contrarian academic’ and ‘hero of climate science denial’. In this article, we examine the events surrounding his dismissal to better understand the role of science communication in organised climate change scepticism. We discuss the sophistry of his complaint to locate where and through what processes science communication becomes political communication. We argue that the prominence of scientists and scientific knowledge in debates about climate change locates science, as a social sphere or fifth pillar in Hutchins and Lester’s theory of mediatised environmental conflict. In doing so, we provide a model to better understand how science communication can be deployed during politicised debates.

Introduction: Environmental Conflict

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Lach
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
High Level Waste ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Contamination Control ◽  
Hazardous Waste Sites ◽  
Public Acceptability ◽  
Common Parlance ◽  
High Level

Environmental conflict appears to be increasing exponentially. Natural resource management disputes over preservation or “wise use” rage in forests, river systems, rangelands, and mineral lands. Locating hazardous waste sites is so contentious that there is only one site in the country that accepts the high-level waste produced everywhere else in the United State. Existing waste sites are closing their gates to all but local waste. Low income and minority communities are documenting the disproportionate burden of toxic contamination in their neighborhoods and are fighting back in the environmental justice movement. NIMBY (Not In My ***BackYard) responses to LULUs (Locally Unwanted Land Uses) appear to have paralyzed both government agencies and neighborhoods as they attempt to clean up past contamination, control present pollution, and manage future responses to development. Conflicts and disputes between affected parties—stakeholders in the common parlance—are regularly in the news as local, state, and federal government agencies attempt to gain public acceptability of programs through public involvement in decision making.

Social and environmental conflict analysis on energy projects: Bayesian predictive network approach

Energy Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 112515
Author(s):  
Isaac Hernández-Cedeño ◽  
Pamela F. Nelson ◽  
Marisol Anglés-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Conflict Analysis ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Energy Projects

El problema del reconocimiento en el conflicto socioambiental por vertederos públicos en la Araucanía, Chile. / The problem of recognition in the socio-environmental conflict related to public landfills in Araucanía, Chile.

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 83-106
Author(s):  
Diego Sandoval Sandoval ◽  
Georg Unger Vergara
Keyword(s):  
Present Theory ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Social Conflicts

El artículo problematiza los alcances del reconocimiento -y el menosprecio- en el análisis del conflicto socioambiental por vertederos públicos en la Araucanía, Chile. Aun cuando no se aprecian rasgos que permitan plantear el presente teórico del Reconocimiento como una teoría del conflicto, se percibe en la noción una herramienta valiosa para su crítica. Lo central del análisis estaría dado en el cómo se estructuran psicosocialmente las posturas de los individuos afectados por esta forma de injusticia. The article address the concept of recognition -and the concept of neglect- in the analysis of the socioenvironmental conflict related to public landfills in Araucanía, Chile. Even though we do not identify traits that allow us to understand the present theory of Recognition as a theory of conflict, we still see in the notion of recognition a valuable tool for understanding social conflicts. The central analysis would be focused on the psychosocial structuration of the position of those affected by this form of injustice.

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