Environment and power. Environment as a source of conflict in the medieval and early modern Low Countries.

The access and use of environmental resources were important sources of conflict in the past as well as today. The project "Environment and Power" tries to identify changing constructions of power in historical conflicts on ecology and environment. More specifically, the PhD-project examines how in a context of increasing political centralisation between the 14th and the 16th centuries, control over the local environment was used by government agents in order to curb autonomy of local community-based institutions on the countryside.

Keywords:ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT, RURAL COMMUNITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, STATE FORMATION

Disciplines:Economic history, Other economics and business, Citizenship, immigration and political inequality, International and comparative politics, Multilevel governance, National politics, Political behaviour, Political organisations and institutions, Political theory and methodology, Public administration, Other political science, History