Facing Global Environmental Change

by Brauch, Hans Gunter; Spring, Ursula Oswald; Grin, John; Mesjasz, Czeslaw; Kameri-Mbote, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9783540684879
• ISBN10: 3540684875
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This policy-focused, global and multidisciplinary security handbook on Facing Global Environmental Change addresses new security threats of the 21st century posed by climate change, desertification, water stress, population growth and urbanization. These security dangers and concerns lead to migration, crises and conflicts. They are on the agenda of the UN, OECD, OSCE, NATO and EU. In 100 chapters, 132 authors from 49 countries analyze the global debate on environmental, human and gender, energy, food, livelihood, health and water security concepts and policy problems. In 10 parts they discuss the context and the securitization of global environmental change and of extreme natural and societal outcomes. They suggest a new research programme to move from knowledge to action, from reactive to proactive policies and to explore the opportunities of environ-mental cooperation for a new peace policy.

Table of Contents

Forewords	p. V
Dedication	p. XII
Acknowledgements	p. XXI
Permissions and Credits	p. XXIV
Prefaces	p. 1
Facing Global Environment Change	p. 3
Facing Global Environment Change and Disaster Risk Reduction	p. 9
Climate Change and Security: A Destablizing Fact of Life	p. 11
Facing and Coping with Globalization: How Ten Years of WTO have Createdan Agrarian Crisis in India	p. 13
Contextualization of Global Environmental Change	p. 19
Introduction: Facing Global Environmental Change and Sectorialization of Security	p. 21
The International System, Great Powers, and Environmental Change since 1900	p. 43
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Securing Interactions between Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being	p. 53
Securitization of Global Environmental Change	p. 63
Securitizing Global Environmental Change	p. 65
Natural Climatic Variations in the Holocene: Past Impacts on Cultural History, Human Welfare and Crisis	p. 103
Climate Change Impacts on the Environment and Civilization in the Near East	p. 119
Human Security, Climate Change and Small Islands	p. 131
Redefining Sustainability: A Policy Tool for Environmental Security and Desertification	p. 141
Societal Impacts of Desertification: Migration and Environmental Refugees?	p. 151
Desertification in Algeria: Policies and Measures for the Protection of Natural Resources	p. 159
Securitizing Water	p. 175
Changing Population Size and Distribution as a Security Concern	p. 203
Life on the Edge: Urban Social Vulnerability and Decentralized, Citizen-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Four Large Cities of the Pacific Rim	p. 215
Policy Dimensions of Human Security and Vulnerability Challenges. The Case of Urban India	p. 233
Securitization of Extreme Natural and Societal Outcomes	p. 243
Interactions between Conflict and Natural Hazards: Swords, Ploughshares, Earthquakes, Floods and Storms	p. 245
AIDS as a Human Security Challenge	p. 257
Conflict and HIV/AIDS: Quantitative Analysis	p. 269
Preparing for Low-Frequency, Extreme Natural Hazards: Contributing to Human Security by Enhancing `Freedom from Hazard Impact'	p. 283
Environmental Refugees and Environmental Distress Migration as a Security Challenge for India and Bangladesh	p. 295
Environmental Scarcities and Civil Violence	p. 309
Linkages Between Sub-national and International Water Conflicts: The Eastern Nile Basin	p. 325
Extractive Industries and the Environmental Aspects of International Security	p. 335
Energy Security for the 21st Century	p. 343
Energy Security: Conceptualization of the International Energy Agency (IEA)	p. 345
Scenarios of Energy Demand and Supply until 2100: Implications for Energy Security	p. 355
Projections of Fossil Energy Reserves and Supply until 2050 (2100): Implications for Longer-term Energy Supply Security	p. 365
Technical and Economic Potentials of Biomass until 2050: Regional Relevance for Energy Security	p. 379
Solar Energy on a Global Scale: Its Impact on Security	p. 395
Solar Energy as a Key for Power and Water in the Middle East and North Africa	p. 411
Energy Security in the Arab World	p. 427
Turkey: Energy Security and Central Asia: The Politics and Economics of the So-called Great Game	p. 437
Towards a Sustainable Energy System for Africa: An African Perspective on Energy Security	p. 445
Energy Security: Economic, Environmental, and Societal Opportunity for the North - Potential of Renewables to Avoid Conflicts?	p. 457
Food Security for the 21st Century	p. 469
Food as a New Human and Livelihood Security Challenge	p. 471
Governance of Food Security in the 21st Century	p. 501
A Research Strategy to Secure Energy, Water, and Food via Developing Sustainable Land and Water Management in Turkey	p. 509
Livelihood and Health Security for the 21st Century	p. 519
Sustainable Livelihood Security. Evolution and Application	p. 521
Global Health Security: The WHO Response to Outbreaks Past and Future	p. 529
Health and Human Security in the 21st Century	p. 541
AIDS - Challenge to Health Security in Africa: Politics in Africa and Case Study on Botswana	p. 553
Health and Poverty as Challenges for Human Security: Two Case Studies on Northern Vietnam and Bangladesh	p. 563
Water Security for the 21 st Century	p. 573
Global Trade: Balancing Existing and Future Regional Water Resource Deficits	p. 575
Water Wars in India	p. 589
Sustainability of Environmental Regimes: The Mekong River Commission	p. 593
Water Scarcity and Political Wrangling: Security in the Euphrates and Tigris Basin	p. 603
Water Resources in the Arab World: A Case Study on Jordan	p. 615
`New Security Thinking' in Israeli-Palestinian Water Relations	p. 623
Functional Water Cooperation in the Jordan River Basin: Spillover or Spillback for Political Security?	p. 633
Water and Food Security in the River Nile Basin: Perspectives of the Government and NGOs in Egypt	p. 641
Water and Food Security in the Nile River Basin: Perspectives of Governments and NGOs of Upstream Countries	p. 651
Water and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Concepts and their Implications for Effective Water Resource Management in the Southern African Region	p. 661
Water Security in the Senegal River Basin: Water Cooperation and Water Conflicts	p. 675
The Centrality of Water Regime Formation for Water Security in West Africa: An Analysis of the Volta Basin	p. 685
Success and Failure in International River Basin Management - The Case of Southern Africa	p. 699
Can `Integrated Water Resources Management' Silence Malthusian Concerns? The Case of Central Asia	p. 711
Environmental Security in Central Asia and the Caspian Region: Aral and Caspian Seas	p. 725
The Central Asian Water Regime as an Instrument for Crisis Prevention	p. 739
Water Resource Management for Improving Environmental Security and Rural Livelihoods in the Irrigated Amu Darya Lowlands	p. 749
Water Security in Times of Armed Conflicts	p. 763
Environmental Security Concepts and Debates	p. 779
Environmental Security Concepts Revisited During the First Three Phases (1983-2006)	p. 781
Environmental Security: Academic and Policy Debates in North America	p. 791
The Debate on Ecological Security in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine	p. 803
Linking Knowledge Systems for Socio-ecological Security	p. 817
Environmental Security in Northeast Asia	p. 829
Environmental Security in the Arab World	p. 843
In the Name of Security: In the Name of Peace - Environmental Schizophrenia and the Security Discourse in Israel / Palestine	p. 855
Security and Environment and the Israel-Palestine Conflict	p. 865
Conceptualization and Debate on Environmental and Human Security in Palestine	p. 873
Environmental Scarcity, Insecurity and Conflict: The Cases of Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Burundi	p. 885
Environmental Security in Sub-Sahara Africa: Global and Regional Environmental Security Concepts and Debates Revisited	p. 895
The Brazilian Amazon in an Environmental Security and Social Conflict Framework	p. 915
Politics of Environment in the Caucasus Conflict Zone: From Nationalizing Politics to Conflict Resolution	p. 925
Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Contrasting Problems, Places, and Prospects	p. 939
Security at the Poles: The Arctic and Antarctic	p. 951
Human and Gender Security Concepts and Debates	p. 961
Human Security Concepts in Policy and Science	p. 965
The Human Security Network: A Global North-South Coalition	p. 991
Theoretical Perspective on Human Security: A South Asian View	p. 1003
Horizontal and Vertical Extension of International Security: A Human Security Approach	p. 1013
Human Security in the Arab World: A Perspective from the Maghreb	p. 1021
Human Security Concepts, Approaches and Debates in Southeast Asia	p. 1037
Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 1049
Human Security in Central America	p. 1063
Human Security: A South American Perspective	p. 1077
Human Security in North America: A Canadian Perspective	p. 1087
Human Security Initiatives of Japan	p. 1097
Human Security: International Discourses and Local Reality - Case of Mali	p. 1105
Enhancing Human Rights-A Contribution to Human Security	p. 1115
Natural Disasters, Vulnerability and Human Security	p. 1121
Environment as an Element of Human Security in Southeast Asia: Case Study on the Thai Tsunami	p. 1131
The Impossibility of Securitizing Gender vis à vis `Engendering' Security	p. 1143
A HUGE Gender Security Approach: Towards Human, Gender, and Environmental Security	p. 1157
Human Security and the Governmentality of Neo-liberal Mobility: A Feminist Perspective	p. 1183
Gender Security in South East Asia and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Exploitation in Central America: HUGE Security Challenges	p. 1191
Do Disasters Discriminate? A Human Security Analysis of the Impactof the Tsunami in India, Sri Lanka and of the Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan	p. 1215
Failed Narco-state or a Human Security Failure? Ethical and Methodological Ruptures with a Traditional Read of the Afghan Quagmire	p. 1227
Relevance of Human and Environmental Security Concepts for the Military Services: A Perspective of a Former Chief of Staff	p. 1245
Towards a Human Security-Based Early Warning and Response System	p. 1253
Conclusions: From Knowledge to Action and Policy Outlook	p. 1265
Methods and Techniques of Remote Sensing to Contribute to Security in Tropical Rain Forests	p. 1267
Linking Anthropocene, HUGE and HESP: Fourth Phase of Environmental Security Research	p. 1277
Towards Sustainable Peace for the 21st Century	p. 1295
Summary and Results: Facing Global Environmental Change and Sectorialization of Security	p. 1311
Abbreviations	p. 1333
Bibliography	p. 1347
Biographies of Contributors	p. 1503
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