ABSTRACT
"Environmental Conflict" is emerging because violent behavior is increasingly associated with environmental actions, as either cause or effect. This is because environment has loomed larger in terms of importance to society and because conflict too has changed. There is an objective and a normative side in the field of environmental conflict. Environmental conflict must be more than the notional blending of two differing realms: the world of people and the world of nature. Cases of environmental conflict cover an immense range of issue configurations. Environmental conflicts are longer term, civil in nature, protracted between a variety of players, and lead to many more indirect casualties in recent history. There are two broad types of environmental conflict: general and specific. The growing overlap of environmental issues and their role in conflict is bound to hasten a focus on research and policy solutions.
