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Land and Environmental Conflicts

Climate change is worsening existing international conflicts and putting environmental policy at the centre of controversial debates. Disadvantaged groups have historically been disproportionately affected by land and environmental conflicts, suffering greatly from environmental degradation and resource scarcity. Such conflicts frequently arise in connection with the extraction of raw materials through land grabbing and environmental pollution. This promotes distributive injustice, food crises and migration. Our research focuses on socio-ecological conflicts through empirical fieldwork with local communities. Our work draws on social and cultural anthropology, the sociology of globalisation, and protest and movement research, with a particular focus on rural areas.