Understanding Environmental Security and its Casual Factors with Special Reference to Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (original) (raw)
This paper explores the causal factors related to environment and security. An attempt has been made to identify the sources of environmental degradation in Bangladesh in general and Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in particular. Homer-Dixon study on environment and security has put forward three causal factors of environmental degradation (increasing population growth, unequal distribution of lands and environmental changes), and it was successfully experimented by Alam in the case of Bangladesh. But the theory of Homer-Dixon (supply-induced scarcity, demand-induced scarcity and structural-induced scarcity) has proved to be insufficient in analyzing the causal factors of environmental degradation in the case of CHT. The empirical scrutiny shows that the non-market variables (religion, regime and nationalism) are the major causal factors of environmental degradation and conflicts in CHT.
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