Includes bibliographical references and index.

The sustainability paradox and the conflicts on use of natural resources / E. Gunilla Almered Olsson and Pernille Gooch -- Natural conflicts in the capitalocene / Pernille Gooch, Anders Burman and E. Gunilla Almered Olsson -- Water, conflicts and sustainable development / Sofie Hellberg -- Forest-related community-outsider conflicts through the lens of property rights, access and power / Josefin Gooch -- Conflicts in the management of fisheries / Staffan Larsson -- The raptor and the lamb : on human-wildlife conflicts / Eileen O'Rourke -- From dystopia to utopia and back again : the case of the Van Gujjars pastoralists in the Indian Himalaya / Pernille Gooch -- Undermining the resource ground : conflicts connected to natural resource exploitation experienced by Sami reindeer herders and Adnyamathanha traditional owners / Kristina Sehlin MacNeil -- Environmental justice in a post-agreement Colombia : peace for an ecologically and socially sustainable land-use? / Torsten Krause -- To change, or not to change? : the transboundary water question in the Nile Basin / Ana Cascão -- Benefit sharing for risk reduction and fostering sustainable development : current understanding and mechanisms / Shivcharn Dhillion -- Power and knowledge use in coastal conflict resolution / Olga Stepanova -- Environmental conflicts : towards theoretical analyses of social-ecological systems / Karl Bruckmeier -- The transformative potential of the food system concept : sustainability conflicts or sustainability transitions? / E. Gunilla Almered Olsson.