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Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. P. H. Liotta

    1. Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, Newport, USA

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  2. David A. Mouat

    1. Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA

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  3. William G. Kepner

    1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, Las Vegas, USA

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  4. Judith M. Lancaster

    1. Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA

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  • Compiles the most up-to-date review on human and environmental security and their linkages
  • Provides a provocative discussion on a newly emerging concept which seeks to link environmental condition to an evolving definition of security
  • Explores likely impacts of environmental change and hazards on social, economical, and political dimensions of human society
  • Contributes both a multi-disciplinary and multi-lateral perspective to the issue of security by combining the talents and experience of physical and social scientists
  • Includes case studies and examples from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and North America

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Approaches to Environmental and Human Security

    1. Introduction

      • P. H. Liotta
      Pages 1-5

    2. Zombie Concepts and Boomerang Effects

      • P. H. Liotta, Allan W. Shearer
      Pages 9-33

    3. Measuring Human Security

      • Taylor Owen
      Pages 35-64

  3. Environmental Challenges: Examples From North Africa, The Balkans, and The Middle East

    1. Drylands in Crisis

      • David A. Mouat, Judith M. Lancaster
      Pages 67-80

    2. Desertification in Jordan

      • Mu'taz Al-Alawi
      Pages 81-102

    3. Global Environmental Change and the International Efforts Concerning Environmental Conservation

      • Liviu-Daniel Galatchi
      Pages 103-115

    4. Management of Environmental Challenges and Sustainability of Bulgarian Agriculture

      • Hrabrin Bachev
      Pages 117-142

    5. Regional Assessment of Landscape and Land Use Change in the Mediterranean Region

      • Nash S. Maliha, Deborah J. Chaloud, William G. Kepner, Samuel Sarri
      Pages 143-165

  4. Human Challenges: Case Studies

    1. Human Security for an Urban Century

      • Robert J. Lawson, Maciek Hawrylak, Sarah Houghton
      Pages 169-202

    2. Urbanization and Environmental Security

      • Nikolai Bobylev
      Pages 203-216

    3. Approaching Environmental Security

      • Steven R. Hearne
      Pages 217-251

    4. The Human Security Dilemma

      • Ryerson Christie
      Pages 253-269

    5. Securing Humans And/Or Environment In The Post-Conflict Balkans

      • Biljana Vankovska, Toni Mileski
      Pages 271-297

    6. Environmental Justice and Health Disparities in Appalachia, Ohio

      • Michele Morrone
      Pages 299-323

  5. Acting on Hazard Impacts: Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia

    1. Poverty-Environment Linkages and their Implications for Security

      • D. H. Smith
      Pages 327-340

    2. Human and Environmental Security in the Sahel

      • Colonel Cindy R. Jebb, Colonel Laurel J. Hummel, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Rios, Lieutenant Colonel Madelfia A. Abb
      Pages 341-392

    3. Environment and Security in Eastern Europe

      • Oleg Udovyk
      Pages 393-405

    4. Environmental Issues Of The Kyrgyz Republic And Central Asia

      • A. K. Tynybekov, V. M. Lelevkin, J. E. Kulenbekov
      Pages 407-432

    5. Environmental Change in the Aral Sea Region

      • Rashid Khaydarov, Renat Khaydarov
      Pages 433-447
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Environmental and Human Security: Then and Now 1 2 ALAN D. HECHT AND P. H. LIOTTA * 1 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development 2 Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Salve Regina University 1. Nontraditional Threats to Security The events of September 11, 2001 have sharpened the debate over the meaning of being secure. Before 9/11 there were warnings in all parts of the world that social and environmental changes were occurring. While there was prosperity in North America and Western Europe, there was also increasing recognition that local and global effects of ecosystem degradation posed a serious threat. Trekking from Cairo to Cape Town thirty years after living in Africa as a young teacher, for example, travel writer Paul Theroux concluded that development in sub-Saharan Africa had failed to improve the quality of life for 300 million people: “Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it—hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can’t tell the politicians from the witch-doctors” (2002). While scholars and historians will debate the causes of 9/11 for some time, one message is clear: An often dizzying array of nontraditional threats and complex vulnerabilities define security today. We must understand them, and deal with them, or suffer the consequences. Environmental security has always required att- tion to nontraditional threats linked closely with social and economic well-being.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, Newport, USA

    P. H. Liotta

  • Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA

    David A. Mouat, Judith M. Lancaster

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, Las Vegas, USA

    William G. Kepner

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