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American environmental policy scholar
Erika Weinthal
Nationality American Scientific career Fields Environment Institutions
Duke University
Erika Weinthal is an
American
environmental policy
scholar currently the Lee Hill Snowdon
Professor of Environmental Policy at
Duke University . Her work focuses on global
environmental change ,
environmental peacebuilding , and
climate change adaptation , employing global
governance and
political economy perspectives.
[1]
Work
Weinthal has studied environmental and natural resource governance in various world regions, including the
Middle East ,
North Africa and
Central Asia .
[2]
[3]
She has cooperated with the
United Nations Environment Programme to analyse the role of natural resources in post-conflict
peacebuilding . In particular, she showed how access to water can help to rebuild livelihoods and address grievances after
civil wars , while inadequate water management can fuel political tensions and undermine
peace .
[4]
In recent year, Weinthal become well known for her work on the targeting on environmental infrastructure in civil war.
[5] Together with Jeannie Sowers, she has collected data on attacks on food, water and health infrastructure in
Syria and
Yemen ,
[6]
Gaza and the
West Bank ,
[7] and
Libya .
[8] She shows that such attacks are increasing in frequency and are used by civil war parties to punish civilian populations, cause disruptions in enemy territory, and gain control over valuable resources. Recovering such infrastructure will be key to post-conflict
environmental peacebuilding .
Weinthal formerly edited the journal
Global Environmental Politics
[1] and is currently the editor of
Environment and Security .
[9] She also served as the founding Vice-President of the
Environmental Peacebuilding Association .
[10]
References
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a
b
"Erika Weinthal" . Nicholas School of the Environment . 2023-03-07. Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ Jones Luong, Pauline; Weinthal, Erika (2010).
Oil Is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States . Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-76577-0 .
^ Sowers, Jeannie; Vengosh, Avner; Weinthal, Erika (2011-02-01).
"Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa" . Climatic Change . 104 (3): 599–627.
doi :
10.1007/s10584-010-9835-4 .
hdl :
10161/6460 .
ISSN
1573-1480 .
^ Weinthal, Erika; Troell, Jessica; Nakayama, Mikiyasu (18 February 2014).
Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding . Earthscan.
^
"Scholars@Duke grant: Targeting Environmental Infrastructures: Water, Energy, and Civilians in the New Middle Eastern Wars" . scholars.duke.edu . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ Sowers, Jeannie L; Weinthal, Erika; Zawahri, Neda (7 September 2017).
"Targeting environmental infrastructures, international law, and civilians in the new Middle Eastern wars" . Security Dialogue . 48 (5): 410–430.
doi :
10.1177/0967010617716615 .
ISSN
0967-0106 .
^ Weinthal, Erika; Sowers, Jeannie (1 March 2019).
"Targeting infrastructure and livelihoods in the West Bank and Gaza" . International Affairs . 95 (2): 319–340.
^ Weinthal, Erika; Sowers, Jeannie (1 December 2023).
"Targeting Libya's rentier economy: The politics of energy, water, and infrastructural decay" . Environment and Security . 1 (3–4): 187–208.
doi :
10.1177/27538796231217548 .
ISSN
2753-8796 .
^
"SAGE Publishing and Environmental Peacebuilding Association Announce New Journal Environment and Security" . Sage . 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Environmental Peacebuilding Association Launched to Improve Learning and Action on Environment, Conflict, and Peace | Environmental Law Institute" . www.eli.org . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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