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Climatic cataclysm: the foreign policy and national security implications of climate change
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ISBN: 9780815713326 0815713320 Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press

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"Presents three scenarios of what the future may hold: expected, severe, and catastrophic and analyzes the security implications of each. Considers what can be learned from early civilizations confronted with natural disaster and asks what the largest emitters of greenhouse gases can do to reduce and manage future risks"--Provided by publisher.


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The Arctic Contested
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ISBN: 3035264589 Year: 2014 Publisher: Brüssel : P.I.E.-Peter Lang S.A,

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In recent decades, and in particular as a result of global climate change, the significance of the Arctic has radically shifted, from a remote periphery to a region of intensifying political and academic interest and of conflicting interests. This collection of texts examines in particular how national and international politics and law impact on Arctic governance, communications and indigenous rights; and in parallel, explores perceptions and experiences of the North in literature and the dramatic arts. The book thus offers a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue, in order to highlight tha

Desertification in the Mediterranean region : a security issue
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ISBN: 9781402037580 1402037589 1402037597 9786610427420 1280427426 1402037600 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division,

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Focuses on two basic concepts: security and desertification in the Mediterranean Region and their linkages. This book provides a multi-lateral forum for cooperation, information exchange, and dialogue among the environmental, development, foreign and security policy communities within the Mediterranean Region.

Environmental security and environmental management : the role of risk assessment
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ISBN: 9781402038914 1402038917 1402038925 9786610461165 1280461160 1402038933 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dordrecht, Netherlands ; London, England : Springer,

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The concept of “environmental security” has emerged as one basis for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of the environment in the future. In the same way that energy security is about ensuring access to energy for the long run, it can also mean that pressing environmental concerns create a situation where different countries and communities are forced to collaboratively design a unified response, even if cooperation is not generally in the logic of their relations. Over the last several years, the authors of this book and their colleagues have tried to demonstrate the power of risk assessment and decision analysis as valuable tools that decision makers should use for a broad range of environmental problems, including environmental security. Risk analysis is almost more a state of mind or a way of looking at problems than it is a kind of algorithm or a set of recipes. It projects a kind of rationality on problems and forces a certain degree of quantitative rigor, as opposed to the all too common tendency of making environmental recommendations based on anecdotal evidence.

Security and environment in the Mediterranean : conceptualising security and environmental conflicts
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ISBN: 3540401075 3642624790 3642558542 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

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In this volume security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers as well as climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean. They also analyse NATO’s Mediterranean security dialogue and offer conceptualisations on security and perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The latter half of the book analyses environmental security and conflicts in the Mediterranean and environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkan wars and the Middle East conflict. It also examines factors of global environmental change: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food and urbanisation issues as well as natural disasters. Furthermore, it draws conceptual conclusions for a fourth phase of research on human and environmental security and peace as well as policy conclusions for cooperation and partnership in the Mediterranean in the 21st century.

Building a successful Palestinian state : security
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ISBN: 0833040510 1598752626 9781598752625 9780833036469 0833036467 9780833040510 0833036467 0833038117 0833040499 1282282662 9786612282669 1433709503 9780833040497 9780833038111 9781433709500 6612282665 9781282282667 Year: 2006 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,

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This study examines key external security issues that must be met for there to be a successful independent Palestinian state following a peace agreement with Israel. It makes proposals for an international (NATO-led) peace-enabling force, Palestinian security forces, and liaison and confidence-building cooperation between Palestine and Israel.

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