Overview
- Focus on six structural factors: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food security, urbanisation and pollution
- Review of environmental degradation as a cause of conflict and of conflict prevention as a new task of security policy
- Dialogue between academia and policy makers in international organisations as well as governmental and nongovernmental institutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HSHES, volume 1)
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Table of contents (56 chapters)
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Impact of the Year 2001 on Multilateral Approaches to Armed Violence
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Jordanian Perception of Security Challenges in the Mediterranean
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Risks of Conflict: Population and Resource Pressures
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The Fall of Paradigms and the Challenge of Cultures Dialogue
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Introduction: Security and Environment Linkages, Conflicts in the Mediterranean (1945–2001) and Conflict Prevention
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Security Dialogue and Concepts: NATO’s Mediterranean Security Dialogue and Security Concept of the European Union
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Conceptualising Security in the Post-Cold War Period in the North
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About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Security and Environment in the Mediterranean
Book Subtitle: Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts
Editors: Hans Günter Brauch, Peter H. Liotta, Antonio Marquina, Paul F. Rogers, Mohammad El-Sayed Selim
Series Title: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55854-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40107-0Due: 06 June 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62479-7Published: 06 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55854-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1865-5793
Series E-ISSN: 1865-5807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 1134
Additional Information: originally published as monograph
Topics: Geography, general, Environmental Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Political Science, European Integration, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice