Natural Resource Conflicts and Sustainable Development

E. Gunilla Almered Olsson is Professor in Human Ecology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her interdisciplinary work in research and teaching is on use and management of natural resources and biodiversity involving knowledge integration in social-ecological systems in agricultural landscapes in Europe and Africa. She also worked on those issues for the Swedish government and the United Nations Environment Program. Current research is on urban resilience related to food systems and the linking of urban and rural regions within the context of sustainable development. She is a co-author to global assessments for the UN/Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Pernille Gooch is Associate Professor in the Human Ecology Division, Lund University, Sweden. Her main focus of research is the political ecology of human–environmental relations. She has done extensive fieldwork on forest conflicts in the Indian Himalayas. Other issues of interest include environmental justice, environmental history, gender, livelihood and participatory methods.

1. The sustainability paradox and the conflicts on use of natural resources PART I Overview of natural resource use conflicts in relation to sustainable development 2. Natural conflicts in the Capitalocene 3. Water, conflict and social sustainability: bringing power into the water security discourse 4. Water, conflict and social sustainability: bringing power into the water security discourse 5. Conflicts in the management of fisheries: the change in roles and perception of the Swedish fishing industry PART II Case studies 6. The Raptor and the Lamb: Reintroduction of carnivores in agricultural landscapes in Ireland 7. From Dystopia to Utopia – and back again: The case of the Van Gujjars pastoralists in the Indian Himalaya 8. Undermining the resource ground: extractive violence on Laevas and Adnyamathanha land 9. Forest Governance in Post-Agreement Colombia 10. To change, or not to change? The transboundary water question in the Nile Basin PART III Transforming natural resource conflicts 11. Benefit sharing for project risk-conflict reduction and fostering sustainable development: current understanding and mechanisms 12. Power and knowledge use in coastal conflict resolution 13. Environmental conflicts: towards theoretical analyses of social-ecological systems 14. The transformative potential of the food system concept: sustainability conflicts or sustainability transitions?