Facing global environmental change: environmental, human, energy, food, health and water security concepts ; with 135 tables

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