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Global Environmental Change 29 (2014) 360–370 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Global Environmental Change jo ur n al h o mep ag e: www .elsevier .co m/loc ate/g lo envc h a Beyond scarcity: Rethinking water, climate change and conflict in the Sudans a,* b Jan Selby , Clemens Hoffmann a Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK b Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: This article develops a new framework for understanding environment-conflict relations, on both Received 23 April 2013 theoretical grounds and through a qualitative historical analysis of the links between water and conflict in Received in revised form 6 January 2014 the states of Sudan and South Sudan. Theoretically, the article critiques the dominant emphases on Accepted 8 January 2014 ‘scarcity’, ‘state failure’ and ‘under-development’ within discussions of environmental security, and Available online 21 February 2014 proposes an alternative model of environment-conflict relations centring on resource abundance and globally-embedded processes of state-building and development. Empirically, it examines three claimed Keywords: (or possible) linkages between wa