The Role of Regional Organizations in the Context of Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9783642850288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str.

Michael H. Glantz

Opis

The possible impacts of global warming on transboundary resources such as water and fish and the ability of regional organizations to deal with those impacts are closely examined. Using a historical approach, the ways in which regional organizations have responded to changes in the location and amount of resources are assessed. The book closes in suggesting that policymakers review the possible roles for regional organization in issues related to environmental change. If the climate changes, resources are likely to shift at local and regional levels, possibly leading to interstate conflicts.

Spis treści

I: Executive Summary.- I: Executive Summary.- II: Summary of Discussion Sessions.- II: Summary of Discussion Sessions.- Science Issues.- Policy Issues.- Societal Aspects.- Regional Organizations.- Non-Governmental Organizations.- III: Discussion Papers.- Background on the Climate Change Issue.- The regionalization of climate-related environmental problems.- The role of regional organizations in addressing climate change and other complex environment and development issues.- The climate change issue: Scientific aspects.- The climate change issue: Policy aspects.- Transnational regional responses to global climate change: Options, obstacles, opportunities.- An environmental security dimension of global climate change.- Water Resources.- Climate change and water resources.- Regional organizations and climate-related changes in the water regime.- Climate change and international water problems: Issues related to the formation and transformation of regional organizations.- Regional organization for water utilization in the Middle East.- Transboundary water resources on the Iberian Peninsula.- Marine Resources.- Some aspects of regional cooperation in the marine sciences.- The potential role of regional organizations related to the marine environment in the context of global climate change.- Scarcity, property allocation, and climate change.- Regional Organizations.- The Organization of American States (OAS) and issues of environment and development.- Regional organizations and environmental change: An East African example.- The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and climate change.- The roles of IGOs in international environmental management: Arena or actor.- Role of regional organizations in the context of climate change.- IV: Appendix.- Biographical Statements of Participants.- Item 4, Provisional Agenda, Working Group III.- List of Participants.- Suggested Bibliography.- Glossary of Acronyms.