TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marwa Daoudy
TI  - The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Water security
KW  - Syria
KW  - Water-supply
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Food security
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Human security
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 2011-
KW  - Environmental aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Climate change and the Syrian revolution -- The many faces of environmental security -- When geography rules history -- Rules of ideology and policy : from Ba'athism to the liberal age -- Vulnerability and resilience : human-environmental-climate security (HECS) in Syria -- Syria : a (hi)story of vulnerability, resistance, and resilience
N2  - "This book puts forward a new framework for evaluating the climate-conflict hypothesis that examines the interactions between environmental, economic, and sociopolitical factors at the roots of the Syrian uprising (2011). The Human-Environmental-Climate Security (HECS) framework adopts a critical environmental security perspective to avoid deterministic thinking and recognize local agency by people and governments. Applying the HECS framework to the Syrian case, the author traces the history of climate, water, and food (in)security in Syria in the context of Ba'athist and liberal policies. Ultimately, the book concludes that while climate change might have contributed to the severity of a drought in the mid- to late 2000s, it was ultimately the Syrian government's poor policy decisions that created a nexus of vulnerability in rural agricultural communities"--
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