Environmental Change and Security: A European Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783642643149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 322 str.

Alexander Carius; Kurt M. Lietzmann; Kurt M. Lietzmann

Opis

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.

Spis treści

The Environment and Security Nexus; Environment and Security in International Politics; Environment and Security in the Context of the NATO/CCMS; Environmental Conflict Research; The Role of Environmental Policy in Peace and Conflict Research; Environment and Security: The Demographic Dimension.- Characterization and Taxonomies; Environmental Degradation in the South as a Cause of Armed Conflict; Syndromes of Global Change: A Taxonomy for Peace and Conflicts: Methodological Problems.- Modeling; Environmentally-Induced Conflict - Methodological Notes; Modeling Environmental Conflict; Environmental Conflict and Sustainable Development.- Foreign and Security Policy Approaches;The Foreign Policy Dimension of Environmentally-Induced Conflicts; Environmental Threats and International Security.- Environment and Development Policy Approaches; Preventing Environmentally-Induced Conflicts Through Development Policy and International Environmental Policy; Development Cooperation as an Instrument of Crisis Prevention; Security Policy as a New Foundation for Determining International Environmental Policy; Environment and Security in the Context of the Debate on UN Reform.- Environment and Development Policy Approaches.- Annex.

O autorze

Alexander Carius is co-founder and managing director of Adelphi Research.