ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how resource conflicts impact development, especially in industrializing societies. It draws on the case of Cambodia to illustrate how, for some communities, ecological distribution conflicts which stem from environmental degradation, social injustices, or the unfair distribution of environmental harm and benefits constitute everyday realities that impede sustainable development. But it also considers how such conflicts have the potential to drive positive social and political change, if not transformation, through civic resistance. Following this, the chapter discusses how environmental peacebuilding approaches might be used to address resource conflicts and offers some reflections for pedagogy.
