Environment and Security: Discourses and Practices(International Political Economy Series)

This book is based on a conference addressing the relationship between the environment and security in the post-Cold War world. It brings together scholars and practitioners from a variety of different disciplines and perspectives in an effort to both explore the complexities of the relationship between environmental variables and security conditions, and re-focus the debate within the environmental community. The book combines analytical frameworks and case study material with proposals for addressing environmental challenges and enhancing the security and welfare of peoples, states and regions.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Overview; M.R.Lowi & B.R.Shaw PART ONE: DISCOURSES The Changing Nature of National Security; M.M.Evans, J.W.Mentz, R.W.Chandler & S.L.Eubanks Integrating Environmental Factors into Conventional Security; R.A.Matthew Security, Governance, and the Environment; S.Rayner & E.L.Malone Human Security, Environmental Security and Sustainable Development; S.Lonergan Geopolitics and Ecology: Rethinking the Contexts of Environmental Security; S.Dalby PART TWO: PRACTICES Integration on Non-Traditional Security Issues: A Preliminary Application to South Korea; R.E.Bedeski Trends in Transboundary Water Disputes and Dispute Resolution; A.T.Wolf & J.H.Hamner Water and Conflict in the Middle East and South Asia: Environment and Security Linkages; M.R.Lowi Perceptions of Risk and Security: The Aral Sea Basin; G .Sergen & E.L.Malone Not Seeing the People for the Population: A Cautionary Tale from the Himalaya; M.Thompson Index

About the Author :
ROBERT E. BEDESKI Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ROBERT W. CHANDLER Senior Councillor, Atlantic Council of the United States SIMON DALBY Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa STEPHANIE L. EUBANKS Arms Control Policy Analyst, Office of Arms Control Implementation and Compliance, Government of the United States MARY MARGARET EVANS Deputy Director, Arms Control, Implementation and Compliance Office, Government of the United States JESSE H. HAMNER Doctoral Student, Department of Political Science, Emory University STEVE LONERGAN Professor, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia ELIZABETH L. MALONE Manager, Global Climate Change Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States RICHARD A. MATTHEW Assistant Professor, International and Environmental Politics, University of California J.W.MENTZ Treaty Manager, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Government of United States STEVE RAYNER Chief Scientist, Global Climate Research Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, DC GALINA SERGEN Graduate Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, DC MICHAEL THOMPSON Social Anthropologist, Director, Musgrave Institute, London AARON T. WOLF Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

Review :
'Conflicts over shared natural resources, particularly water resources, can lead to armed conflict. Pursuing military security at the cost of social, economic and environmental well-being is akin to dismantling a house to salvage materials in order to erect a fence around. It is therefore very timely to have a book on Environment and Security. I am sure it will be of great benefit to all those interested in the subject of security.' - Mostafa Kamal Tolba, Former Executive Director UNEP (UN Environmental Program) 'This well-conceived volume combines a sophisticated understanding of international security with expertise on a wide range of environmental issues. The result is a series of studies that illuminate the nexus of environment and security without ever making exaggerated claims suggesting simple causality. These qualities make the book of as much interest to policy-makers as to the academic community.' - Richard Ullman, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University 'This useful collection, better integrated than most, deals effectively with an important and controversial array of problems. Its central message speaks wisely about the difficulties inherent in defining and then evaluating environmental security.' - Donald Kennedy, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University