Desiccation of Lake Chad as a cause of security instability in the Sahel region

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F46747885%3A24510%2F17%3A00005035" target="_blank" >RIV/46747885:24510/17:00005035 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geosc.2017.11.issue-2/geosc-2017-0009/geosc-2017-0009.xml" target="_blank" >http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geosc.2017.11.issue-2/geosc-2017-0009/geosc-2017-0009.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2017-0009" target="_blank" >10.1515/geosc-2017-0009</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Desiccation of Lake Chad as a cause of security instability in the Sahel region

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The Lake Chad basin is one of the most unstable regions in Africa. The lake itself has shrunk and nowadays it covers less than 10 % of its area in 1960. These environmental changes have wider geopolitical consequences in the whole region, which encompasses countries such as Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Therefore, it seems that environmental threats may act as the detonators for larger political conflict as well as for a struggle for land and may cause growing instability in affected countries. The region is fragile, owing to the fact that several terrorist and Islamist groups are operating there. The most serious threat in the Lake Chad basin is militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which is based in north eastern Nigeria, but it is also active in neighbouring countries. As a result of both ecological changes and security threats, people are losing their traditional sources of income from herding and it is likely that there will be large waves of migration from the area. The paper focuses on the environmental challenges in the Lake Chad basin and their effect on the security in the region. The main attention will be paid to the strategies and actions of militant terrorist groups such as Boko Haram that will be analysed in the wider regional geopolitical context.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Desiccation of Lake Chad as a cause of security instability in the Sahel region

Popis výsledku anglicky

The Lake Chad basin is one of the most unstable regions in Africa. The lake itself has shrunk and nowadays it covers less than 10 % of its area in 1960. These environmental changes have wider geopolitical consequences in the whole region, which encompasses countries such as Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Therefore, it seems that environmental threats may act as the detonators for larger political conflict as well as for a struggle for land and may cause growing instability in affected countries. The region is fragile, owing to the fact that several terrorist and Islamist groups are operating there. The most serious threat in the Lake Chad basin is militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which is based in north eastern Nigeria, but it is also active in neighbouring countries. As a result of both ecological changes and security threats, people are losing their traditional sources of income from herding and it is likely that there will be large waves of migration from the area. The paper focuses on the environmental challenges in the Lake Chad basin and their effect on the security in the region. The main attention will be paid to the strategies and actions of militant terrorist groups such as Boko Haram that will be analysed in the wider regional geopolitical context.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

GeoScape

ISSN

1802-1115

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

11

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

112-120

Kód UT WoS článku

000419530500005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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