Rethinking the link between climate and violent conflict over water
Journal: International Development Planning Review
Year: 2023

The climatisation of security has given a new impulse to fears of violent environmental conflict over scarce resources such as water. The present contribution links water conflict narratives to climate as a driver of conflict and notions of scarcity. Each of these narratives tends to have rather linear assumptions proving a false sense of certainty This is worrying as the uptake of particular narratives has material consequences, directing material resources in particular, in potentially harmful