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oapen-20.500.12657-639552023-07-15T02:48:13Z New Wars and Old Plagues Hirschfeld, Katherine de Beurs, Kirsten Brayfield, Brad Melkonyan-Gottschalk, Ani Armed conflict Malaria Medical anthropology Emerging infectious diseases Disease ecology Karabakh Caucasus Remote sensing Medical geography Post-Soviet history Warfare Non-state actors bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSX Human biology::PSXM Medical anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history 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. 2023-07-14T15:43:07Z 2023-07-14T15:43:07Z 2023 book ONIX_20230714_9783031311437_35 9783031311437 9783031311420 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63955 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-31143-7.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-31143-7 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-31143-7 10.1007/978-3-031-31143-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 e8025389-9887-46a8-bb52-e47e56b7308e 9783031311437 9783031311420 Palgrave Macmillan 113 Cham [...] University of Oklahoma OU open access
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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.
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