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Responding to Environmental Conflicts: Implications for Theory and Practice pp 239–251Cite as

Preventing Environmentally-Induced Conflicts Through International Environmental Policy

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Considerable progress has been achieved in international policy, but serious problems concerning rule-making, implementation and inter-policy coordination remain. Proposals for improvement range from the pursuit of incremental changes to a fundamental restructuring and the creation of a world organization. Despite the fact that environmental problems can even lead to violent conflict, the creation of new institutions would hardly constitute an effective response to the existing challenges as it would leave the root of the problem, the lack of political will of states, untouched.

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  1. Ecologic- Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Pfalzburger Strasse 43-44, 10717, Berlin, Germany

    Sebastian Oberthür

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  1. Ecologic-lnstitute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin, Germany

    Eileen Petzold-Bradley

  2. Adelphi Research, Berlin, Germany

    Alexander Carius

  3. Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University, Budapest, Hungary

    Arpád Vincze

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Oberthür, S. (2001). Preventing Environmentally-Induced Conflicts Through International Environmental Policy. In: Petzold-Bradley, E., Carius, A., Vincze, A. (eds) Responding to Environmental Conflicts: Implications for Theory and Practice. NATO Science Series, vol 78. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0395-7_15

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