http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5434 2013-05-21T20:51:55Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5446 CONTENTS JPD 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5445 The Construction of Legitimate Natural Resource Plans in the Petén, Guatemala Stillwaggon, Daniel; Cobb, Sara 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5444 RESOURCES JPD 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5443 Giving the Dead Sea a New Life: Have All Options Been Responsibly Considered? Abitbol, Eric 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5442 The Liberia Forest Concession Review: Lessons for Resource Management and Restoration of the Rule of Law Rochow, K.W. James; Simpson, Robert D.; Brownell, Alfred L.; Pierson, Oliver 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5441 Navigating the Landscape: The Nature of Environmental Injustice Hickey, Valerie The management of natural resources occurs within a dynamic political environment. A fundamental tenet of this management is the asymmetry of the cost-benefit paradigm, especially as people on the periphery experience costs disproportionately. This asymmetry has transformed the environment into a social construct underpinned by opposing narratives. Moreover, this asymmetry reinforces existing social inequities because environmental costs are not quarantined from other inequalities and are often married to other forms of exclusion. Such marginalisation breeds hopelessness, leading to the salience of geographic identities and resource-based conflict. This article explains why environmental justice must take its place within the framework of broader social concerns to minimise the dichotomy between those who control natural resources and those who suffer from their over-exploitation. Ultimately, this demand for environmental justice enlarges the quest for basic civil rights. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5440 Water Scarcity in the Middle East: Balancing Conflict, Development, and Survival in Turkey, Syria and Iraq This article highlights the importance of water as a source of conflict in the Middle East and as an element of peacebuilding and development. It studies the internal and external factors that create and increase water scarcity – and thus the prospects for conflict – between Turkey, Syria and Iraq. The causes and impacts of water scarcity are examined and possible solutions are presented for reducing scarcity and achieving development and peace in these neighbouring countries. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5439 Natural Resource Transformation: Incorporating Identity Carter Hallward, Maia Natural resource issues provide a useful context for analysing and intervening in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict because environmental destruction harms both Israelis and Palestinians given their close proximity in a small, ecologically fragile landscape. This article argues that because Israeli and Palestinian national narratives both assume a special relationship between their peoples and the land, a traditional natural resources management (NRM) approach treating land as a finite resource to be ‘managed’ or divided will not help to resolve the issue. Instead, politicians, scholars and practitioners should draw upon the principles of conflict transformation in designing intervention strategies and work to create a new ‘ecological’ narrative that weaves the long-term wellbeing of the two peoples together with the environment. Looking at the conflict over land in one location along the route of the separation barrier, the author applies a natural resource transformation framework in analysing the land conflict between Israeli authorities, the settlement of Zufin and the villagers of Jayyous. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z