Environmental Change and Security, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999 A European Perspective International and European Environmental Policy Series

Does a connection exist between environmental degradation, resource scarcity and violent conflicts? Global environmental changes, such as climate change and sea level rise, shortage of fresh water and rapid soil degradation increasingly highlight the dimensions of environmental change in foreign and security policy. To reverse these negative environmental consequences over the long term, comprehensive and preventive policy approaches are urgently required.
This state-of-the-art book contains numerous articles by renown German-speaking experts from different scientific disciplines as well as international and European political advisors and diplomats. Together they discuss the complex causes of environmentally induced conflicts and the political and societal mechanisms for conflict prevention.

List of Figures and Tables.- List of Authors.- Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Opening Address.- A: The Environment and Security Nexus.- Environment and Security in International Politics — An Introduction.- Environment and Security in the Context of the NATO/CCMS.- Environmental Conflict Research — Paradigms and Perspectives.- The Role of Environmental Policy in Peace and Conflict Research.- Environment and Security: The Demographic Dimension.- B: Characterization and Taxonomies.- Environmental Degradation in the South as a Cause of Armed Conflict.- Syndromes of Global Change: A Taxonomy for Peace and Conflict Research.- Conflict Research and Environmental Conflicts: Methodological Problems.- C: Modeling.- Environmentally-Induced Conflict — Methodological Notes.- Modeling Environmental Conflict.- Environmental Conflict and Sustainable Development: A Conflict Model and its Application to Climate and Energy Policy.- D: Foreign and Security Policy Approaches.- The Foreign Policy Dimension of Environmentally-Induced Conflicts.- Environmental Threats and International Security — The Action Potential for NATO.- E: Environment and Development Policy Approaches.- Preventing Environmentally-Induced Conflicts Through Development Policy and International Environmental Policy.- Development Cooperation as an Instrument of Crisis Prevention.- Should Security Policy Lay a New Foundation for Determining International Environmental Policy?.- Environment and Security in the Context of the Debate on UN Reform.- Annex.- A Research Institutes in German-Speaking Regions that Work on the Environment and Security Nexus.- B Internet Sites on Environment and Security.- C Journals that Publish Articles on Environment and Security Regularly or Occasionally.- The Authors.

International well-known experts discuss the complex causes of environmentally induced conflicts and their political and social handling