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Dangerous Materials: Control, Risk Prevention and Crisis Management : From New Global Threats to New Global Responses: A Picture of Transition
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ISSN: 18746519 ISBN: 9789048197323 9789048197316 Year: 2010 Volume: 00 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

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We are living in a period of major structural and political transitions. The Post-Cold-War world has overcome the barriers, unifying Europe, sorting out Balkan situation, enlarging NATO and the EU; but, at the same time, it has shifted from a simple scenario to a more complex and unpredictable globalized context. In fact, many people wonder whether the world was more secure in the past than it is today or whether this is merely a matter of psychological perceptions. This publication is willing to answer to this question, by connecting the concepts of security and safety, focusing particularly on the transportation of dangerous materials, how to avoid the risks they pose, and how to deal with any problems that do arise.


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Climate change and armed conflict : hot and cold wars.
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ISBN: 0415778697 0415592518 9780415778695 9780415592512 9780203872208 9781135211585 9781135211622 9781135211639 Year: 2010 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic action is taken now. Changes in climate will produce unique types and modes of conflict, redefine the value of important resources, and create new challenges to maintaining social order and stability. This book examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it has and will produce two types of different types of conflict: 'cold wars' and 'hot wars'. Cold wars will occur in northern and southern latitudes as warming draws countries into possible conflict due to expanding interests in exploiting new resources and territories (inter-state conflict). Hot wars will break out around the equator as warming expands and intensifies dry areas, increasing competition for scarce resources (intra-state conflict). Conflict is not inevitable, but it will also be a consequence of how states, international institutions and people react to changes in climate. Climate change and conflict have always shaped human experiences. This book lays out the parameters of the relationship, shows its history, and forecasts its trends, offering future conditions and opportunities for changing the historical path we are on.

The demilitarized society : Disarmament and Conversion.
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ISBN: 0887722210 9780887722219 Year: 1988 Publisher: Montreal Harvest House Ltd.

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This book contains an analysis of the economic (economy) and industrial (industry) decay in the USA, caused by misapplications of the rescources to military production and armament systems.Proposals for peace-economic governement investments in sectors such as health, education, roads, public transport, ecology, urban renovation, children and aged adult care.


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Scorched Earth : environmental warfare as a crime against humanity and nature
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ISBN: 9780691137421 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press,

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A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment-environcide-constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature. In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadors exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the Indian Wars of the American West and the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa. Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.


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Building peace in the Middle East : challenges for states and civil society
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ISBN: 1555874363 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Lynne Rienner Publishers

Les conflits verts : la détérioration de l'environnement, source de tensions majeures
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ISBN: 2872910042 9782872910045 Year: 1992 Volume: 22 Publisher: Bruxelles : Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité (G.R.I.P.),

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Bibliotheek François Vercammen

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Sociology of environment --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Environnement --- Milieu --- Milieuverontreiniging --- Pollution de l'environnement --- Environmental policy --- Conservation of natural resources --- Pollution --- Conservation des ressources naturelles --- Politique gouvernementale --- natuurbehoud --- ecologische leefwijze --- Environmental degradation --- Environmental responsibility --- Green movement --- environment --- water --- Terre --- Land --- Pêches --- fisheries --- Écologie --- ecology --- Densité de population --- population density --- Guerre --- War --- Démographie --- Demography --- Érosion --- Erosion --- Déboisement --- Deforestation --- Dégradation de l'environnement --- Réfugié --- Refugees --- #SBIB:327.5H21 --- 502.35 <100> --- 504.05 --- 813 Methodologie --- 820 Internationale Betrekkingen --- 827 Geopolitiek --- 835 Natuurlijke rijkdommen --- 838.1 Ecologie --- 844.3 Migratie en vluchtelingen --- 846.1 Etniciteit --- 848 Demografie --- 850 Vrede- en conflictstudies --- 876 Veiligheidspolitiek --- 883.4 West-Azië --- 614.7 --- 304 --- 304.001 --- Ecologism --- Environmental action groups --- Environmental groups --- Environmentalism --- Political ecology --- Sustainable living --- Ecological accountability --- Ecological responsibility --- Environmental accountability --- Environmental ethics --- Responsibility --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- milieu - leefmilieu - milieubeleid (zie ook 712) - duurzame ontwikkeling --- maatschappij - sociale problemen --- maatschappijkritiek --- Environmental degradation. --- Environmental responsibility. --- Green movement. --- Environmental qualityVrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- Erosion. --- 570 --- armement --- pollution --- environnement --- eau --- milieu --- Conflit vert --- Grip --- FACTEURS DE LA VIE INTERNATIONALE --- GEOGRAPHIE --- ECOLOGIE --- ENVIRONNEMENT

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