Environmental Conflicts and Negotiation

Posted: January 5th, 2023

Environmental Conflicts and Negotiation

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Environmental Conflicts and Negotiations

Environmental conflicts cases have begun to make the daily headlines indicating a redline. The various ecological crises and problems have gained roots and are now spreading throughout the world. The multiple concerns commonly evident in the environmental conflicts include; people and the environment, ecological disputes, climate change and environmental conflicts and management implications. The specific matches in the society include biodiversity, land and natural resources, as well as forestry and water. The portion of the people and environment, which constitute the key players in the environmental conflicts and negotiations, represent the larger ecosystem that the subject is revolving around (Vogt and Abood, 2020).  Therefore, the vastness of the matter that involves society’s critical players makes the subject exciting and vital for every individual to understand. There are constant conflicts in culture between human beings and the environment. The article explores environmental change and its change in society, including livelihoods and health.  The various conflict subjects will be addressed in the report; the importance of the natural environment to the human welfare, human population interaction with the artificial or natural environments catastrophes such as the earthquake and tsunami. The pressure of the environment on the resources and the environmental conflicts will also be addressed.

People and the environment

Various ecosystem services are provided by nature; stabilization and air regulatory processes, regeneration processes, and goods production. The purification process in the stabilization of the gas composition helps maintain the gases in the environment, hence stabilizing the climate, stabilizing the weather patterns, and controlling the pests (González-Hidalgo, 2017). The regeneration process aids in renewing general soil fertility, water purification, and revegetation by assisting the pollination and dispersal of seeds and sores. González-Hidalgo, (2017) argue that nature also provides for beautiful scenery and aesthetic beauty, hence preserving future options for human beings. Through the various processes, the heart helps in the sustainability of human beings and their lifestyle as well as livelihoods. Human beings form the central critical players within the system where they have control over the environment. Their high birth rate has led to their population’s increment; hence, they form the largest environmental consumer for survival.  Man being the largest populations within the ecosystem exerts more pressure on the natural environment, which is opposed to the past nature of life where the natural ecosystem formed the largest share in the ecosystem compared to human beings at Homo sapiens era in history.

People, natural or human-induced environmental conditions.

The various hazards in the environment, whether human-induced of naturally acquired, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, terrains, as well as the quality of land, acts to link to the source of vulnerability and insecurity for the people. Some climatic conditions change expose human beings to the various natural hazards that threaten the household and coping strategies to the climatic change (Xu et al., 2019). Human beings in economically challenged societies are exposed to various risks with insufficient infrastructure to act against the perceived climatic change.

The livelihood security for any individual within the society demands access to the various natural resources and assets. Østmo and Law (2018) argue that the accessibility of natural resources, especially when not managed effectively by human beings, is highly likely to be extinct. This is because the livelihood depending on the specific natural environment may be too many within the society through overusing without replacement or alternatives hence highly likely to facilitate the process of desertification, deforestation, soil erosion, therefore, the destruction of the once-famous natural environment (Østmo and Law, 2018). The natural environment limited context acts as poverty. If human beings realize early in advance against the trap as a lack of alternatives, unlimited resource context escalates to environmental degradation, leading to poverty. The increased degradation thus translates to increased intercommunity and household disputes as they compete for the ability of the declining resources. 

Environmental conflicts

The intense competition for the predetermined resources, divergent views and beliefs where one party in the ecosystem plays a critical role at the other shareholders’ expense illustrates the environmental conflict. Scarcity of resources looms in the society where one part of the ecosystem works at the other’s cost (Cullen-Knox et al., 2019). The conflict between wildlife and the various aspects of biodiversity forms the biodiversity conflict. The competition includes disputes concerning the different protected grass and green technology.

Land conflicts

Land is the most priority and vital resource that the earth provides to human beings. This is because it is the resource that provides the population with the various foodstuffs, provide that basic necessity such as a place to build a shelter essential requirement. The scarce resource contributes to multiple grievances and violent conflict (Cullen-Knox et al., 2019). The existence of rare natural elements within a particular landmass is highly likely to contribute to friction between the local communities and the various individuals determined to manage the product.

Water conflicts

The increased sewerage emission from the companies presents a health hazard to both human beings and fish. For instance, the company’s high levels of organophosphates are not broken down in fish and thus are transmitted to human beings through accumulation (Cullen-Knox et al., 2019). This hence presents a biological hazard to both fish and human.

Ideology consensus

The development of the divergent ideas in the market is built around identifying the various human-environmental conflicts. The consensus within this system is the basis for developing multiple strategies to cub the various environmental disputes within society. 

Study divergent ideas.

While the two studies highlight resolving disputes between the human-environmental societies, there are still various divergent ideas. For instance, the elimination of the provision to ban the use of the firewood as fuel for cooking and advocating for the benefit of natural gas as a fuel has not yet fully addressed the cases of reducing deforestation since the individuals in remote areas have not yet gained the accessibility of the gas resources (Herranz-Surrallés, 2017). However, the law in some countries advocates for the planting of a tree that one will use for firewood of which ideally, in the long run, works in the restoration of the climate within the environment as per the study.

The other study is focusing on water regulations in a bid to control environmental pollution. The research seeks at the various mechanisms of controlling the industrial chemical effluents into the water sources which endanger the life of the ordinary citizens as well as jeopardize the aquatic organisms.

Study gaps.

Creating a peaceful environment between the human generation and the environment comes with the most incredible opportunity. For instance, the new era in society is utilizing the recent technological advancements in all aspects. The bid to achieve a stable peace between the natural environment and the human generation faces new challenges that have not yet been established within society (Schmidt, Schmid, and Sewerin, 2019). The challenge of improvising new recycle mechanisms of the technological wastes has not previously been fully expounded on. In contrast, the dream of achieving a peaceful correlation in the environment is at advanced stages.

Recommendations

The various managers and practioners in environmental management should gear up supporting the development and transformation of multiple strategies to improve human welfare. This is because human welfare improvement will translate to better utilization of the natural resources, thus progressing to a peaceful, stable natural environment in coexistence with the human population. Public education should be continuously administered to the various individuals in the society as a method of reminding the citizens of the need to conserve the environment as well as means through which their actions will improve the natural environment build up. Various programs such as the country’s annual seedling day might help achieve the goal of creating a new artificial clean environment. The program will work best if the various individuals in society are provided with the seedlings to participate in the multiple levels across the government ministries, at home, and the institutional regions.  Through the national environment department, the government should develop the mechanisms of regulating the waste effluents from the company with the periodic testing of the waste.

In conclusion, the environmental conflicts are a matter of international concern whereby the extreme pressure piled on the environment culminates in the various ecological change, which further worsens the conflict between the natural environment and human generation. Since the human population makes up the highest percentage in the ecosystem and acts as the control of the ecosystem, the various policies they pass will initiate the natural environment’s development towards or against resolving the conflict.

References

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 González-Hidalgo, M. (2017). The politics of reflexivity: Subjectivities, activism, environmental conflict and Gestalt Therapy in southern Chiapas. Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 25, no.6, pp. 54-62.

Herranz-Surrallés, A. (2017). Energy diplomacy under scrutiny: parliamentary control of intergovernmental agreements with third‐country suppliers. West European Politics, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 183-201.

Schmidt, T. S., Schmid, N., & Sewerin, S. (2019). Policy goals, partisanship and paradigmatic change in energy policy–analyzing parliamentary discourse in Germany over 30 years. Climate Policy, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 771-786.

Vogt, J., & Abood, M. (2020). A transdisciplinary, mixed methods research plan for evaluating the collective impact approach for tree planting: The CommuniTree initiative in northwest Indiana, US. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, vol. 53, pp. 126735. https://dio. Org /7/8/8/6/78864946/202.

Xu, Y., Fu, X., & Chu, X. (2019). Analyzing the impacts of climate change on hydro-environmental conflict-resolution management. Water Resources Management, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 1591-1607.

Østmo, L., & Law, J. (2018). Mis/translation, colonialism, and environmental conflict. Environmental Humanities, vol. 10,no.  2, pp. 349-369.