TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirschfeld,Katherine
AU  - de Beurs,Kirsten
AU  - Brayfield,Brad
AU  - Melkonyan-Gottschalk,Ani
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - New Wars and Old Plagues: Armed Conflict, Environmental Change and Resurgent Malaria in the Southern Caucasus 
SN  - 9783031311437
AV  - GN296-296.5 
U1  - 306.461 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Public health
KW  - Peace
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Medical Anthropology
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Peace and Conflict Studies
KW  - Environmental Anthropology
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Russian, Soviet, and East European History
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. History and Ecology of Malaria in the Caucasus -- 3. The Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994 -- 4. Rebordering, Forced Migration and Population Health Crises, 1988-1994 -- 5. Long-Term Conflict and Environmental Change -- 6. Conclusions; Open Access
N2  - This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between non-state actors generated the region’s largest epidemic of P. vivax malaria since the 1960s. This book is an important addition to the literature on the Karabakh conflict and conflict studies more broadly because the infectious disease outbreaks associated with warfare often kill more people than the armed conflicts themselves. Warfare itself has also changed dramatically since the collapse of the USSR, and the Karabakh conflict provides an excellent case study of the way “New Wars” transform the natural and social environment to facilitate outbreaks of preventable disease. This extended case study will be useful to researchers from a variety of academic disciplines, including medical anthropology, geography, conflict studies, disease ecology, global health and public health. It also reveals the fragility of twentieth century malaria control in temperate regions and will assist in predictive modeling for future outbreaks
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31143-7
ER  -