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.
Author(s): Hans Günter Brauch (auth.), Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Heinz Krummenacher (eds.)
Series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace 4
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 1544
Tags: Environment, general; Geography (general); Climate Change; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Environmental Economics; Sociology
Front Matter....Pages I-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Introduction: Facing Global Environmental Change and Sectorialization of Security....Pages 21-42
The International System, Great Powers, and Environmental Change since 1900....Pages 43-52
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Securing Interactions between Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being....Pages 53-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-64
Securitizing Global Environmental Change....Pages 65-102
Natural Climatic Variations in the Holocene: Past Impacts on Cultural History, Human Welfare and Crisis....Pages 103-118
Climate Change Impacts on the Environment and Civilization in the Near East....Pages 119-130
Human Security, Climate Change and Small Islands....Pages 131-139
Redefining Sustainability: A Policy Tool for Environmental Security and Desertification....Pages 141-149
Societal Impacts of Desertification: Migration and Environmental Refugees?....Pages 151-158
Desertification in Algeria: Policies and Measures for the Protection of Natural Resources....Pages 159-173
Securitizing Water....Pages 175-202
Changing Population Size and Distribution as a Security Concern....Pages 203-213
Life on the Edge: Urban Social Vulnerability and Decentralized, Citizen-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Four Large Cities of the Pacific Rim....Pages 215-231
Policy Dimensions of Human Security and Vulnerability Challenges. The Case of Urban India....Pages 233-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-244
Interactions between Conflict and Natural Hazards: Swords, Ploughshares, Earthquakes, Floods and Storms....Pages 245-256
AIDS as a Human Security Challenge....Pages 257-268
Conflict and HIV/AIDS: Quantitative Analysis....Pages 269-282
Preparing for Low-Frequency, Extreme Natural Hazards: Contributing to Human Security by Enhancing ‘Freedom from Hazard Impact’....Pages 283-294
Environmental Refugees and Environmental Distress Migration as a Security Challenge for India and Bangladesh....Pages 295-308
Environmental Scarcities and Civil Violence....Pages 309-323
Front Matter....Pages 243-244
Linkages Between Sub-national and International Water Conflicts: The Eastern Nile Basin....Pages 325-334
Extractive Industries and the Environmental Aspects of International Security....Pages 335-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-344
Energy Security: Conceptualization of the International Energy Agency (IEA)....Pages 345-354
Scenarios of Energy Demand and Supply until 2100: Implications for Energy Security....Pages 355-364
Projections of Fossil Energy Reserves and Supply until 2050 (2100): Implications for Longer-term Energy Supply Security....Pages 365-377
Technical and Economic Potentials of Biomass until 2050: Regional Relevance for Energy Security....Pages 379-394
Solar Energy on a Global Scale: Its Impact on Security....Pages 395-410
Solar Energy as a Key for Power and Water in the Middle East and North Africa....Pages 411-426
Energy Security in the Arab World....Pages 427-435
Turkey: Energy Security and Central Asia: The Politics and Economics of the So-called Great Game....Pages 437-444
Towards a Sustainable Energy System for Africa: An African Perspective on Energy Security....Pages 445-456
Energy Security: Economic, Environmental, and Societal Opportunity for the North – Potential of Renewables to Avoid Conflicts?....Pages 457-468
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
Food as a New Human and Livelihood Security Challenge....Pages 471-500
Governance of Food Security in the 21 st Century....Pages 501-507
A Research Strategy to Secure Energy, Water, and Food via Developing Sustainable Land and Water Management in Turkey....Pages 509-518
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Sustainable Livelihood Security. Evolution and Application....Pages 521-528
Global Health Security: The WHO Response to Outbreaks Past and Future....Pages 529-540
Health and Human Security in the 21st Century....Pages 541-551
AIDS – Challenge to Health Security in Africa: Politics in Africa and Case Study on Botswana....Pages 553-562
Health and Poverty as Challenges for Human Security: Two Case Studies on Northern Vietnam and Bangladesh....Pages 563-572
Front Matter....Pages 573-574
Global Trade: Balancing Existing and Future Regional Water Resource Deficits....Pages 575-587
Water Wars in India....Pages 589-592
Sustainability of Environmental Regimes: The Mekong River Commission....Pages 593-601
Water Scarcity and Political Wrangling: Security in the Euphrates and Tigris Basin....Pages 603-613
Water Resources in the Arab World: A Case Study on Jordan....Pages 615-621
‘New Security Thinking’ in Israeli-Palestinian Water Relations....Pages 623-631
Functional Water Cooperation in the Jordan River Basin: Spillover or Spillback for Political Security?....Pages 633-640
Water and Food Security in the River Nile Basin: Perspectives of the Government and NGOs in Egypt....Pages 641-649
Water and Food Security in the Nile River Basin: Perspectives of Governments and NGOs of Upstream Countries....Pages 651-659
Water and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Concepts and their Implications for Effective Water Resource Management in the Southern African Region....Pages 661-674
Water Security in the Senegal River Basin: Water Cooperation and Water Conflicts....Pages 675-684
The Centrality of Water Regime Formation for Water Security in West Africa: An Analysis of the Volta Basin....Pages 685-698
Success and Failure in International River Basin Management – The Case of Southern Africa....Pages 699-709
Can ‘Integrated Water Resources Management’ Silence Malthusian Concerns? The Case of Central Asia....Pages 711-723
Environmental Security in Central Asia and the Caspian Region: Aral and Caspian Seas....Pages 725-738
The Central Asian Water Regime as an Instrument for Crisis Prevention....Pages 739-748
Water Resource Management for Improving Environmental Security and Rural Livelihoods in the Irrigated Amu Darya Lowlands....Pages 749-761
Water Security in Times of Armed Conflicts....Pages 763-778
Front Matter....Pages 779-780
Environmental Security Concepts Revisited During the First Three Phases (1983-2006)....Pages 781-790
Environmental Security: Academic and Policy Debates in North America....Pages 791-801
Front Matter....Pages 779-780
The Debate on Ecological Security in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine....Pages 803-816
Linking Knowledge Systems for Socio-ecological Security....Pages 817-828
Environmental Security in Northeast Asia....Pages 829-841
Environmental Security in the Arab World....Pages 843-853
In the Name of Security: In the Name of Peace – Environmental Schizophrenia and the Security Discourse in Israel / Palestine....Pages 855-864
Security and Environment and the Israel-Palestine Conflict....Pages 865-872
Conceptualization and Debate on Environmental and Human Security in Palestine....Pages 873-883
Environmental Scarcity, Insecurity and Conflict: The Cases of Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Burundi....Pages 885-893
Environmental Security in Sub-Sahara Africa: Global and Regional Environmental Security Concepts and Debates Revisited....Pages 895-914
The Brazilian Amazon in an Environmental Security and Social Conflict Framework....Pages 915-924
Politics of Environment in the Caucasus Conflict Zone: From Nationalizing Politics to Conflict Resolution....Pages 925-938
Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Contrasting Problems, Places, and Prospects....Pages 939-950
Security at the Poles: The Arctic and Antarctic....Pages 951-960
Front Matter....Pages 961-963
Human Security Concepts in Policy and Science....Pages 965-989
The Human Security Network: A Global North-South Coalition....Pages 991-1001
Theoretical Perspective on Human Security: A South Asian View....Pages 1003-1011
Horizontal and Vertical Extension of International Security: A Human Security Approach....Pages 1013-1020
Human Security in the Arab World: A Perspective from the Maghreb....Pages 1021-1035
Human Security Concepts, Approaches and Debates in Southeast Asia....Pages 1037-1047
Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa....Pages 1049-1062
Front Matter....Pages 961-963
Human Security in Central America....Pages 1063-1076
Human Security: A South American Perspective....Pages 1077-1086
Human Security in North America: A Canadian Perspective....Pages 1087-1096
Human Security Initiatives of Japan....Pages 1097-1104
Human Security: International Discourses and Local Reality – Case of Mali....Pages 1105-1114
Enhancing Human Rights – A Contribution to Human Security....Pages 1115-1119
Natural Disasters, Vulnerability and Human Security....Pages 1121-1129
Environment as an Element of Human Security in Southeast Asia: Case Study on the Thai Tsunami....Pages 1131-1142
The Impossibility of Securitizing Gender vis à vis ‘En gender ing’ Security....Pages 1143-1156
A HUGE Gender Security Approach: Towards Human, Gender, and Environmental Security....Pages 1157-1181
Human Security and the Governmentality of Neo-liberal Mobility: A Feminist Perspective....Pages 1183-1189
Gender Security in South East Asia and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Exploitation in Central America: HUGE Security Challenges....Pages 1191-1214
Do Disasters Discriminate? A Human Security Analysis of the Impact of the Tsunami in India, Sri Lanka and of the Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan....Pages 1215-1226
Failed Narco-state or a Human Security Failure? Ethical and Methodological Ruptures with a Traditional Read of the Afghan Quagmire....Pages 1227-1243
Relevance of Human and Environmental Security Concepts for the Military Services: A Perspective of a Former Chief of Staff....Pages 1245-1252
Towards a Human Security-Based Early Warning and Response System....Pages 1253-1264
Front Matter....Pages 1265-1265
Methods and Techniques of Remote Sensing to Contribute to Security in Tropical Rain Forests....Pages 1267-1276
Linking Anthropocene, HUGE and HESP: Fourth Phase of Environmental Security Research....Pages 1277-1294
Towards Sustainable Peace for the 21st Century....Pages 1295-1310
Summary and Results: Facing Global Environmental Change and Sectorialization of Security....Pages 1311-1331
Back Matter....Pages 1333-1544
