6 - Reflections, Findings, and Future Applications of the Environmental Violence Framework

Summary

This chapter is about reflection on, refinement of, and future use of the EV framework. The process of reflecting on the development of the EV framework and discussing considerations for future applications of it will enable me to highlight the most salient interconnections and differentials between the Sierra Leone and Paradises in Peril case studies and make clear the transcendent local to global patterning of environmental violence. In the course of discussing these reflections I pay particular attention to the way my own views of EV and subsequent development of the EV framework evolved through my fieldwork and engagements with varied interlocutors, from villagers to government officials. I will also clarify some final points on the EV framework to facilitate its use going forward and to outline points of improvement that will take time and iteration to calibrate. I will then present three critical junctures of EV that the model helped make apparent by distilling the substantive subtleties of each complex case, facilitating the triangulation of these underlying critical realities of EV that enable it to be pervasive and pernicious in the human niche.