Security and Environment in the Mediterranean: Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts

ISBN-13: 9783642624797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 1134 str.

Hans Gunter Brauch Afes-Press; Peter H. Liotta; Antonio Marquina

Opis

In this volume security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers as well as climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean. They also analyse NATO s Mediterranean security dialogue and offer conceptualisations on security and perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The latter half of the book analyses environmental security and conflicts in the Mediterranean and environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkan wars and the Middle East conflict. It also examines factors of global environmental change: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food and urbanisation issues as well as natural disasters. Furthermore, it draws conceptual conclusions for a fourth phase of research on human and environmental security and peace as well as policy conclusions for cooperation and partnership in the Mediterranean in the 21st century."

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"In substance, this is a reference book on a subject of high quality; therefore, the editors, together with the contributors, should be praised for their production. ... One merit of the book is its success in blending views of scholars and practitioners. ... In our view, the book fulfills its scope, which is to sensitize the readers to the challenges and risks ahead. It thus contributes to a better understanding of the issues and possible resolutions of various problems associated with the Mediterranean." (Yannis N. Kinnas, Journal of Environment & Development, Vol. 13 (4), 2004)

"Security and Environment in the Mediterranean boasts an impressive roster of Mediterranean specialists and scholars in security, social, and environmental studies addressing conflicts and cooperation, theoretical approaches and methodological challenges, and political and economic developments ... . I would recommend this book as an important addition to any library on environmental security. ... On the other hand, scholars and graduate students ... will find this a great collection of conceptual clarifications, important data, methodological considerations, hard-to-find references, historical trends, and succinct summaries ... ." (Evan Vlachos, ECSP Report, Issue 10, June, 2004)

"'Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict' is the collaborative effort of many of the region's leading experts on desertification, climate change, water scarcity and rapid urbanization, and examines non-military threats to population growth and development. ... The research and findings have caught the attention of world leaders ... . This volume of work is certain to become a necessary reference guide to understanding the relationship between security and environment in the region." (Firas Al-Atraqchi, IslamOnline, November, 2004)

Spis treści

Impact of the Year 2001 on Multilateral Approaches to Armed Violence.- Jordanian Perception of Security Challenges in the Mediterranean.- Risks of Conflict: Population and Resource Pressures.- The Fall of Paradigms and the Challenge of Cultures Dialogue.- I Introduction: Security and Environment Linkages, Conflicts in the Mediterranean (1945–2001) and Conflict Prevention.- 1 Introduction: Security and Environment in the Mediterranean.- 2 Security and Environment Linkages on the Mediterranean Space: Three Phases of Research on Human and Environmental Security and Peace.- 3 Conflicts in and among Mediterranean Countries (1945–2001).- 4 Prevention of Violent Conflicts: A New Task for Security Policy — Lessons Learned from Successes and Failures for the Mediterranean.- II Security Dialogue and Concepts: NATO’s Mediterranean Security Dialogue and Security Concept of the European Union.- 5 NATO’s Agenda and the Mediterranean Dialogue.- 6 A Southern Perspective and Assessment of NATO’s Mediterranean Security Dialogue.- 7 A European Perspective and Assessment of NATO’s Mediterranean Security Dialogue.- 8 The Future of the NATO-Mediterranean Dialogue.- 9 The Security Concept of the European Union for the Mediterranean.- III Conceptualising Security in the Post-Cold War Period in the North.- 10 Worldviews and Mind-sets: American vs. European Perspectives on Mediterranean (Environmental) Security Policy.- 11 Globalisation, States, and Regionalisation: Analysing post-Cold War Security in the Mediterranean Region.- 12 National, Societal and Human Security: Discussion — Case Study of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.- 13 Economic and Financial Globalisation: Its Consequences for Security in the Early 21st Century.- 14 Military and Environmental Security: Revisiting the Concepts in the Euro-Mediterranean.- 15 From Cooperative Security to Security Partnership in the Mediterranean.- IV Conceptualising Security in the Post-Cold War Period in the South.- 16 Conceptualisations of Security: A Perspective from the Maghreb.- 17 Conceptualising Security by Arab Mashreq Countries.- 18 Security Conceptualisation in Turkey.- 19 Conceptualising Security in Israel.- V Security Challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean Region.- 20 Missile Defence Programmes and Debates in the United States — Threat Perception on the MENA Area: An Assessment and Proposal.- 21 Is there a Missile Threat for Europe? Justifications for a European Missile Defence in Europe and in the Mediterranean.- 22 Soft Security Challenges: Terrorism and Organised Crime — The Open Agenda.- 23 Migration as an International and Domestic Security Issue.- VI Conceptualising Environmental Security for the Mediterranean Region.- 24 Environmental Security: Conceptual Contestation and Empirical Relevance in the Mediterranean.- 25 The Political Ecology of Violence: Lessons for the Mediterranean.- 26 Environmental Conflict: Neomalthusians vs. Cornucopians.- VII Environmental Consequences of Wars in the Mediterranean (1940–2000).- 27 War Impacts on the Environment in the Mediterranean and Evolution of International Law.- 28 Landmines from External Powers in World War II at El-Alamein in Egypt.- 29 Environmental Dimension of the Gulf War of 1991.- 30 Environmental Post-Conflict Assessments: A New UN Tool Developed by UNEP.- 31 A Question of Priorities — Adverse Effects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on the Environment of the Region over the Last Decade.- 32 Activities of the Multilateral Environmental Working Group in the Middle East Peace Process.- VIII Population Growth and Climate Change in the Mediterranean.- 33 The Population of the Mediterranean Region During 1950–2000.- 34 Climate and Climate History of the Mediterranean Basin.- 35 Impacts of Climate Changes and Sea Level Rise on the Mediterranean Coastal Zone.- IX Desertification in the Mediterranean and MENA Region.- 36 Desertification: Global Degradation of Drylands.- 37 Assessing Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy Implications.- 38 Accelerated Desertification in the Deserts of Mauritania and China in the 20th Century.- 39 Population and Land-use Changes: Impacts on Desertification in Southern Europe and in the Maghreb.- X Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean and MENA Region.- 40 Water Security in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.- 41 Shared Groundwater Resource Management and Protection in the Mediterranean — A Joint Approach by United Nations Agencies.- 42 Water Accords in the Middle East Peace Process: Moving towards Cooperation?.- 43 The Euphrates Issue in Turkish-Syrian Relations.- 44 The Nile Basin Initiative: a Catalyst for Cooperation.- XI Food and Urbanisation in the Mediterranean and MENA Region.- 45 Population Growth and Food Security in the Countries of the Middle East and North Africa.- 46 Mediterranean Countries and World Markets: Basic Foods and Mediterranean Products.- 47 Implications of Declining Food Supplies: Food Security vs. Market Economy.- 48 Increasing Urbanisation and Pollution in the MENA Region: Causes of Conflicts?.- XII Outcome of Environmental Stress: From Natural Disasters to Disaster Prevention.- 49 Natural Disasters in the Mediterranean (1900–2001): From Disaster Response to Preparedness.- 50 Towards International Cooperation in Managing Forest Fire Disasters in the Mediterranean Region.- XIII Empirical and Theoretical Results and Conceptual Conclusions.- 51 Towards a Fourth Phase of Research on Human and Environmental Security and Peace: Conceptual Conclusions.- 52 Security Concepts for Cooperation in the Mediterranean: Conclusions and Outlook for the 21st Century.- Abbreviations.- Biographies of Contributors.- Collection STRADEMED.- Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP).

O autorze

Antonio Marquina (Spain): Ph.D., Chair for International Security and Cooperation and Professor of international relations at Complutense University in Madrid (CUM) since 1985, founder and director of the Research Unit on Security and Cooperation (UNISCI) at CUM. He has been the director of 14 research projects on European, Mediterranean, North African and Caucasus security and on Spanish foreign and security policy. Since 2002 he is a member of the French Conseil Economique de la Défense. From 1996 to 1997 he was the first president of STRADEMED, a network of research institutes working on security, defence and development issues in the Mediterranean. . Hans Günter Brauch, Adj. Prof. (PD) at the Free University of Berlin, chairman of AFES-PRESS, senior fellow at UNU-EHS in Bonn and editor of this series; he publishes on security and environment issues.