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Title:
Facing global environmental change : environmental, human, energy, food, health and water security concepts
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Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace ; 4.
Publication Information:
Berlin : Springer, c2009.
Physical Description:
xlviii, 1586 p. : ill., ports., maps ; 27 cm.
ISBN:
9783540684879
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"Berghof Foundation."

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The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally. Much of the information and knowledge that was created in this field during the year was the result of the findings of the Fourth - sessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which were disseminated on a large scale and reported extensively by the media. This was the result not only of a heightened interest on the part of the public on various aspects of climate change, but also because the IPCC itself proactively attempted to spread the findings of its AR4 to the public at large. The interest generated on the scientific realities of climate change was further enhanced by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and former Vice President of the US, Al Gore. By taking this decision in favour of a leader who has done a great deal to create awareness on c- mate change, and a body that assesses all scientific aspects of climate change and disseminates the result of its findings, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has clearly drawn the link between climate change and peace in the world.


Table of Contents

Rajendra K. Pachauri and Achim Steiner and Joy Ogwu and Stavros DimasLuc GnacadjaSálvano BriceñoMichael Zammit CutajarVandana ShivaHans Günter BrauchJ.R. McNeillRik LeemansHans Günter BrauchWolf Dieter BlümelArie S. Issar and Mattanyah ZoharYannis N. KinnasRajeb Boulharouf and Douglas PattieAndreas RechkemmerGhazi AliÚrsula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter BrauchWolfgang LutzBen Wisner and Juha UittoIsabelle MilbertBen WisnerNana K. Poku and Bjorg SandkjaerSophia BenzJanos J. Bogardi and Jörn Birkmann and Niklas Gebert and Neysa J. SetiadiImtiaz AhmedThomas Homer-Dixon and Tom DeligiannisSimon A Mason and Tobias Hagmann and Christine Bichsel and Eva Ludi and Yacob ArsanoSaleem H. AliKlaus-Dietmar JacobyLeo SchrattenholzerWerner Zittel and Joerg SchindlerAndré P.C. FaaijDavid FaimanFranz Trieb and Wolfram Krewitt and Nadine MayMohammad Selim and Abdullah SaharGareth M. WinrowNogoye ThiamRolf LinkohrÚrsula Oswald SpringM. A. Mohamed SalihSelim Kapur and Burcak Kapur and Erhan Akca and Hari Eswaran and Mustafa AydinHans-Georg BohleGuénaël Rodier and Mary Kay KindhauserJennifer LeaningFred Eboko and Tereza NemeckovaIsabel Fischer and Mohammad Musfequs SalehinTony AllanVandana ShivaBastien AffeltrangerMustafa Aydin and Fulya ErekerBassam Ossama HayekJan SelbyAnders JägerskogEmad Adly and Tarek AhmedPatricia Kameri-Mbote and Kithure KindikiPeter Ashton and Anthony TurtonMartin KippingMaëlis BorgheseStefan LindemannMartin KippingEva RakelJulia WundererChristopher Martius and Jochen Froebrich and Ernst-August NuppenauMara TigninoSimon Dalby and Hans Günter Brauch and Úrsula Oswald SpringRichard A. Matthew and Bryan McDonaldAlexander SerguninP.S. RamakrishnanMiranda A. SchreursMohammad El-Sayed SelimDavid NewmanRobin TwiteMohammed S. Dajani DaoudiMersie EjiguSam MoyoAlexander LópezVicken CheterianJon BarnettGunhild HoogensenHans Günter BrauchClaudia F. Fuentes Julio and Hans Günter BrauchA. K. M. Abdus SaburSascha Werthes and Tobias DebielBéchir ChourouZarina OthmanNana K. Poku and Bjorg SandkjaerPhilippe De Lombaerde and Matthew NortonFrancisco Rojas AravenaDavid R. Black and Larry A. SwatukHideaki ShinodaMax SchottDieter SenghaasFabien NathanSurichai Wun'GaeoSerena Eréndira Serrano OswaldÚrsula Oswald SpringThanh-Dam TruongMary Soledad L. Perpiñan and María Eugenia Villarreal and Úrsula Oswald SpringMadhavi Malalgoda Ariyabandu and Dilrukshi FonsekaShahrbanou TadjbakhshJoseph G. SinghAlbrecht Schnabel and Heinz KrummenacherDirk H. HoekmanÚrsula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter Brauch and Simon DalbyHans Günter Brauch and Úrsula Oswald SpringHans Günter Brauch
Forewordsp. V
Dedicationp. XII
Acknowledgementsp. XXI
Permissions and Creditsp. XXIV
Prefacesp. 1
Facing Global Environment Changep. 3
Facing Global Environment Change and Disaster Risk Reductionp. 9
Climate Change and Security: A Destablizing Fact of Lifep. 11
Facing and Coping with Globalization: How Ten Years of WTO have Createdan Agrarian Crisis in Indiap. 13
Part I Contextualization of Global Environmental Changep. 19
1 Introduction: Facing Global Environmental Change and Sectorialization of Securityp. 21
2 The International System, Great Powers, and Environmental Change since 1900p. 43
3 The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Securing Interactions between Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-beingp. 53
Part II Securitization of Global Environmental Changep. 63
4 Securitizing Global Environmental Changep. 65
5 Natural Climatic Variations in the Holocene: Past Impacts on Cultural History, Human Welfare and Crisisp. 103
6 Climate Change Impacts on the Environment and Civilization in the Near Eastp. 119
7 Human Security, Climate Change and Small Islandsp. 131
8 Redefining Sustainability: A Policy Tool for Environmental Security and Desertificationp. 141
9 Societal Impacts of Desertification: Migration and Environmental Refugees?p. 151
10 Desertification in Algeria: Policies and Measures for the Protection of Natural Resourcesp. 159
11 Securitizing Waterp. 175
12 Changing Population Size and Distribution as a Security Concernp. 203
13 Life on the Edge: Urban Social Vulnerability and Decentralized, Citizen-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Four Large Cities of the Pacific Rimp. 215
14 Policy Dimensions of Human Security and Vulnerability Challenges. The Case of Urban Indiap. 233
Part III Securitization of Extreme Natural and Societal Outcomesp. 243
15 Interactions between Conflict and Natural Hazards: Swords, Ploughshares, Earthquakes, Floods and Stormsp. 245
16 AIDS as a Human Security Challengep. 257
17 Conflict and HIV/AIDS: Quantitative Analysisp. 269
18 Preparing for Low-Frequency, Extreme Natural Hazards: Contributing to Human Security by Enhancing `Freedom from Hazard Impact'p. 283
19 Environmental Refugees and Environmental Distress Migration as a Security Challenge for India and Bangladeshp. 295
20 Environmental Scarcities and Civil Violencep. 309
21 Linkages Between Sub-national and International Water Conflicts: The Eastern Nile Basinp. 325
22 Extractive Industries and the Environmental Aspects of International Securityp. 335
Part IV Energy Security for the 21st Centuryp. 343
23 Energy Security: Conceptualization of the International Energy Agency (IEA)p. 345
24 Scenarios of Energy Demand and Supply until 2100: Implications for Energy Securityp. 355
25 Projections of Fossil Energy Reserves and Supply until 2050 (2100): Implications for Longer-term Energy Supply Securityp. 365
26 Technical and Economic Potentials of Biomass until 2050: Regional Relevance for Energy Securityp. 379
27 Solar Energy on a Global Scale: Its Impact on Securityp. 395
28 Solar Energy as a Key for Power and Water in the Middle East and North Africap. 411
29 Energy Security in the Arab Worldp. 427
30 Turkey: Energy Security and Central Asia: The Politics and Economics of the So-called Great Gamep. 437
31 Towards a Sustainable Energy System for Africa: An African Perspective on Energy Securityp. 445
32 Energy Security: Economic, Environmental, and Societal Opportunity for the North - Potential of Renewables to Avoid Conflicts?p. 457
Part V Food Security for the 21st Centuryp. 469
33 Food as a New Human and Livelihood Security Challengep. 471
34 Governance of Food Security in the 21st Centuryp. 501
35 A Research Strategy to Secure Energy, Water, and Food via Developing Sustainable Land and Water Management in Turkeyp. 509
Part VI Livelihood and Health Security for the 21st Centuryp. 519
36 Sustainable Livelihood Security. Evolution and Applicationp. 521
37 Global Health Security: The WHO Response to Outbreaks Past and Futurep. 529
38 Health and Human Security in the 21st Centuryp. 541
39 AIDS - Challenge to Health Security in Africa: Politics in Africa and Case Study on Botswanap. 553
40 Health and Poverty as Challenges for Human Security: Two Case Studies on Northern Vietnam and Bangladeshp. 563
Part VII Water Security for the 21 st Centuryp. 573
41 Global Trade: Balancing Existing and Future Regional Water Resource Deficitsp. 575
42 Water Wars in Indiap. 589
43 Sustainability of Environmental Regimes: The Mekong River Commissionp. 593
44 Water Scarcity and Political Wrangling: Security in the Euphrates and Tigris Basinp. 603
45 Water Resources in the Arab World: A Case Study on Jordanp. 615
46 `New Security Thinking' in Israeli-Palestinian Water Relationsp. 623
47 Functional Water Cooperation in the Jordan River Basin: Spillover or Spillback for Political Security?p. 633
48 Water and Food Security in the River Nile Basin: Perspectives of the Government and NGOs in Egyptp. 641
49 Water and Food Security in the Nile River Basin: Perspectives of Governments and NGOs of Upstream Countriesp. 651
50 Water and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Concepts and their Implications for Effective Water Resource Management in the Southern African Regionp. 661
51 Water Security in the Senegal River Basin: Water Cooperation and Water Conflictsp. 675
52 The Centrality of Water Regime Formation for Water Security in West Africa: An Analysis of the Volta Basinp. 685
53 Success and Failure in International River Basin Management - The Case of Southern Africap. 699
54 Can `Integrated Water Resources Management' Silence Malthusian Concerns? The Case of Central Asiap. 711
55 Environmental Security in Central Asia and the Caspian Region: Aral and Caspian Seasp. 725
56 The Central Asian Water Regime as an Instrument for Crisis Preventionp. 739
57 Water Resource Management for Improving Environmental Security and Rural Livelihoods in the Irrigated Amu Darya Lowlandsp. 749
58 Water Security in Times of Armed Conflictsp. 763
Part VIII Environmental Security Concepts and Debatesp. 779
59 Environmental Security Concepts Revisited During the First Three Phases (1983-2006)p. 781
60 Environmental Security: Academic and Policy Debates in North Americap. 791
61 The Debate on Ecological Security in Russia, Belarus and Ukrainep. 803
62 Linking Knowledge Systems for Socio-ecological Securityp. 817
63 Environmental Security in Northeast Asiap. 829
64 Environmental Security in the Arab Worldp. 843
65 In the Name of Security: In the Name of Peace - Environmental Schizophrenia and the Security Discourse in Israel / Palestinep. 855
66 Security and Environment and the Israel-Palestine Conflictp. 865
67 Conceptualization and Debate on Environmental and Human Security in Palestinep. 873
68 Environmental Scarcity, Insecurity and Conflict: The Cases of Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Burundip. 885
69 Environmental Security in Sub-Sahara Africa: Global and Regional Environmental Security Concepts and Debates Revisitedp. 895
70 The Brazilian Amazon in an Environmental Security and Social Conflict Frameworkp. 915
71 Politics of Environment in the Caucasus Conflict Zone: From Nationalizing Politics to Conflict Resolutionp. 925
72 Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Contrasting Problems, Places, and Prospectsp. 939
73 Security at the Poles: The Arctic and Antarcticp. 951
Part IX Human and Gender Security Concepts and Debatesp. 961
74 Human Security Concepts in Policy and Sciencep. 965
75 The Human Security Network: A Global North-South Coalitionp. 991
76 Theoretical Perspective on Human Security: A South Asian Viewp. 1003
77 Horizontal and Vertical Extension of International Security: A Human Security Approachp. 1013
78 Human Security in the Arab World: A Perspective from the Maghrebp. 1021
79 Human Security Concepts, Approaches and Debates in Southeast Asiap. 1037
80 Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africap. 1049
81 Human Security in Central Americap. 1063
82 Human Security: A South American Perspectivep. 1077
83 Human Security in North America: A Canadian Perspectivep. 1087
84 Human Security Initiatives of Japanp. 1097
85 Human Security: International Discourses and Local Reality - Case of Malip. 1105
86 Enhancing Human Rights-A Contribution to Human Securityp. 1115
87 Natural Disasters, Vulnerability and Human Securityp. 1121
88 Environment as an Element of Human Security in Southeast Asia: Case Study on the Thai Tsunamip. 1131
89 The Impossibility of Securitizing Gender vis à vis `Engendering' Securityp. 1143
90 A HUGE Gender Security Approach: Towards Human, Gender, and Environmental Securityp. 1157
91 Human Security and the Governmentality of Neo-liberal Mobility: A Feminist Perspectivep. 1183
92 Gender Security in South East Asia and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Exploitation in Central America: HUGE Security Challengesp. 1191
93 Do Disasters Discriminate? A Human Security Analysis of the Impactof the Tsunami in India, Sri Lanka and of the Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistanp. 1215
94 Failed Narco-state or a Human Security Failure? Ethical and Methodological Ruptures with a Traditional Read of the Afghan Quagmirep. 1227
95 Relevance of Human and Environmental Security Concepts for the Military Services: A Perspective of a Former Chief of Staffp. 1245
96 Towards a Human Security-Based Early Warning and Response Systemp. 1253
Part X Conclusions: From Knowledge to Action and Policy Outlookp. 1265
97 Methods and Techniques of Remote Sensing to Contribute to Security in Tropical Rain Forestsp. 1267
98 Linking Anthropocene, HUGE and HESP: Fourth Phase of Environmental Security Researchp. 1277
99 Towards Sustainable Peace for the 21st Centuryp. 1295
100 Summary and Results: Facing Global Environmental Change and Sectorialization of Securityp. 1311
Abbreviationsp. 1333
Bibliographyp. 1347
Biographies of Contributorsp. 1503
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