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]
Erika Weinthal | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Environment |
| Institutions | Duke University |
Work
editWeinthal 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
edit- ^ 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. doi:10.1093/ia/iiz015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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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