Environmental Change and Security: A European Perspective

✍ Scribed by Walter Hirche (auth.), Alexander Carius, Dr. Kurt M. Lietzmann (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: International and European Environmental Policy Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Does a connection exist between environmental degradation, resource scarcity and violent conflicts? Global environmental changes, such as climate change and sea level rise, shortage of fresh water and rapid soil degradation increasingly highlight the dimensions of environmental change in foreign and security policy. To reverse these negative environmental consequences over the long term, comprehensive and preventive policy approaches are urgently required.
This state-of-the-art book contains numerous articles by renown German-speaking experts from different scientific disciplines as well as international and European political advisors and diplomats. Together they discuss the complex causes of environmentally induced conflicts and the political and societal mechanisms for conflict prevention.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
Opening Address....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Environment and Security in International Politics — An Introduction....Pages 7-30
Environment and Security in the Context of the NATO/CCMS....Pages 31-36
Environmental Conflict Research — Paradigms and Perspectives....Pages 37-53
The Role of Environmental Policy in Peace and Conflict Research....Pages 55-88
Environment and Security: The Demographic Dimension....Pages 89-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Environmental Degradation in the South as a Cause of Armed Conflict....Pages 107-129
Syndromes of Global Change: A Taxonomy for Peace and Conflict Research....Pages 131-146
Conflict Research and Environmental Conflicts: Methodological Problems....Pages 147-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Environmentally-Induced Conflict — Methodological Notes....Pages 167-181
Modeling Environmental Conflict....Pages 183-194
Environmental Conflict and Sustainable Development: A Conflict Model and its Application to Climate and Energy Policy....Pages 195-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
The Foreign Policy Dimension of Environmentally-Induced Conflicts....Pages 221-231
Environmental Threats and International Security — The Action Potential for NATO....Pages 233-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Preventing Environmentally-Induced Conflicts Through Development Policy and International Environmental Policy....Pages 249-268
Development Cooperation as an Instrument of Crisis Prevention....Pages 269-283
Should Security Policy Lay a New Foundation for Determining International Environmental Policy?....Pages 285-288
Environment and Security in the Context of the Debate on UN Reform....Pages 289-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-322

✦ Subjects

Environmental Economics; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Environmental Management; Industrial Pollution Prevention