Environmental Degradation in Conflict and Post-Conflict Regions
| Autor: | Lonje Bernard, Eric Zama, Sun Yujun, Ndolo Lisette, Mukete Beckline, Mukete Tahle, Achem Baye John |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Civil society
Sanitation business.industry 05 social sciences Environmental resource management 0507 social and economic geography Context (language use) Livelihood 050701 cultural studies Natural resource Toxic waste 0506 political science Environmental governance 050602 political science & public administration business Environmental planning Environmental degradation |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy. 4:187 |
| ISSN: | 2330-7528 |
| DOI: | 10.11648/j.ijepp.20160406.15 |
| Popis: | Across the globe and for several decades, conflicts have enormously damaged the environment leading to severe ecological degradation. In this paper, we look at ecological degradation in conflict and post-conflict societies and analyze how these could be managed. To attain this goal, we carry out a review of published literature and survey the vast resources sourced from various civil society organizations. We observed that the environment is rarely viewed as an important aspect during conflicts or after conflicts despite being in a context of ravaged infrastructure, lost livelihoods and disrupted institutions. Moreso, these conflicts do extraordinary damage to the ecological component as people struggle for clean water, sanitation, food and fuel. We surmise that, in periods of conflicts and post-conflicts, severe environmental challenges emerge which necessitate the establishment of environmental governance especially of the natural resource base, creation of administrative capacity and seeking sustainable trajectories for environmental recovery as well as reconstruction. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|