Environmental Security in Africa

Conflicts, Politics, and Development

Elisha Jasper Dung, Leonard Sitji Bombom, Augustine Avwunudiogba

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978781252
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

Environmental Security in Africa: Conflicts, Politics, and Development investigates the nature, scope, and dimension of environmental security in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective to examines the history, theories, spatial patterns, sociocultural, socioeconomic consequences, and legal ramifications of Africa's environmental concerns. This book is grounded in theories that cut across the social, behavioral, and environmental sciences, arguing that environmental security is a multifaceted subject intricately linked to global climate change and magnified by globalization. Drawing from case studies across different parts of Africa, Elisha Jasper Dung, Leonard Sitji Bombom, Augustine Avwunudiogba, and the contributors argue that the integral part of the solution to Africa's environmental security issues are entrenched in victims' local, regional, social, cultural, political, and economic circumstances in specific geographical locations, such as Nigeria, Northeast Africa, Kenya, and South Sudan. Comprised of 17 chapters, this book provides a unique perspective that facilitates understanding the complex problem of environmental security and its sundry ramifications for scholars and policymakers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Figures
• Tables
• Introduction
• Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations
• Chapter 1: The Geography of Environmental Security in Africa
• Chapter 2: Globalization, Climate Change, and Environmental Security in Africa
• Chapter 3: Access to Environmental Resources: A Framework for Understanding the Drivers of Environmental Conflict
• Chapter 4: Environmental Conflicts, Politics, and Development in Africa: A Review
• Chapter 5: Climate and Environmental Changes: A Nexus of Environmental Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Part II: Conflicts and Politics of Environmental Security
• Chapter 6: Threats, Triggers, and Tipping Points of Environmental Conflicts: A Case Study of North Central Nigeria, 2002–2022
• Chapter 7: The Impact of Ethiopian Dams on the Environment in Northeast Africa
• Chapter 8: Revisiting the 2006 Toxic Waste Dump in Côte d’Ivoire
• Chapter 9: Implementation and Enforcement of Sustainability Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements in Africa
• Chapter 10: Dimensions of Environmental Conflicts in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, 1956–2015
• Chapter 11: Herdsmen–Farmers Conflict in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Region
• Chapter 12: Forests: The Environmental Theater for Internal Security Operations in Nigeria
• Part III: Environmental Security and Development
• Chapter 13: Socioeconomic Impact of Land Swamp Reclamation: Implications for Environmental Security in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria
• Chapter 14: Environmental Security in Kenya: A Case of Geothermal Projects in Samburu and Narok Counties
• Chapter 15: Mangrove Forest Management in Africa
• Chapter 16: Population Growth and Resource Exploitation: Implications for Environmental Security in Nigeria
• Chapter 17: “Land Grabs” and the “Local Community”: The Search for Human Security between Participation and Patronage in South Sudan
• Conclusion
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors