Environmental Security and Environmental Management: The Role of Risk Assessment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Environmental Security

   1. ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND RISK ASSESSMENT: DEFINITIONS AND CURRENT TRENDS1

      • D.A. BELLUCK, R.N. HULL, S.L. BENJAMIN, J. ALCORN, I. LINKOV

      Pages 1-16

   2. Environmental Security, Critical Infrastructure and Risk Assessment: Definitions and Current Trends

      • D.A. Belluck, R.N. Hull, S.L. Benjamin, J. Alcorn, I. Linkov

      Pages 3-16

   3. SECURITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST WATER ISSUES

      • B. MOREL

      Pages 17-24

   4. Security and the Environment in the Middle East Water Issues

      • B. Morel

      Pages 17-24

   5. POTENTIAL OF SOLAR THERMAL DESALINATION TO DEFUSE WATER AS A CONFLICT ISSUE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Proposal for Functional Cooperation in the Gulf of Aqaba

      • HANS GÜNTER BRAUCH

      Pages 25-48

   6. Potential of Solar Thermal Desalination to Defuse Water as a Conflict Issue in the Middle East

      • Hans Günter Brauch

      Pages 25-48

   7. WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN MEDITERRANEAN TRANSBOUNDARY RIVER BASINS

      • J. GANOULIS

      Pages 49-58

   8. Water Resources Management and Environmental Security in Mediterranean Transboundary River Basins

      • J. Ganoulis

      Pages 49-58

   9. THE ROLE OF COMPARATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT IN DECISION ANALYSIS MARSHLANDS OF MESOPOTAMIA AND AFFECTED RIPARIAN COUNTRIES

      • C.F. MAXWELL

      Pages 59-77

   10. The Role of Comparative Risk Assessment in Decision Analysis Marshlands of Mesopotamia and Affected Riparian Countries

       • C. F. Maxwell

       Pages 59-77

   11. A FUTURE FOR THE DEAD SEA BASIN: OPTIONS FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT

       • C. LIPCHIN

       Pages 79-91

   12. A Future for the Dead Sea Basin: Options for a More Sustainable Water Management

       • C. Lipchin

       Pages 79-91

   13. Are Standard Risk Acceptability Criteria Applicable to Critical Infrastructure Based on Environmental Security Needs?

       • D.A. Belluck, R.N. Hull, S.L. Benjamin, J. Alcorn, I. Linkov

       Pages 93-102

   14. ARE STANDARD RISK ACCEPTABILITY CRITERIA APPLICABLE TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY NEEDS?1

       • D.A. BELLUCK, R.N. HULL, S.L. BENJAMIN, J. ALCORN, I. LINKOV

       Pages 93-102

   15. FROM GLOBAL WARMING TO WATER SCARCITY: WHAT ARE THE MOST URGENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE REGION. Report of the Discussion Group on Environmental Security

       • A. MOREL, B. MOREL

       Pages 103-107

   16. From Global Warming to Water Scarcity: What Are the Most Urgent Environmental Problems of the Region

       • A. Morel, B. Morel

       Pages 103-107

3. Environmental Management

   1. The Interconnection between the Built Environment Ecology and Health

      • H. S. Koren, C. D. Butler

      Pages 111-125

   2. THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ECOLOGY AND HEALTH

      • H.S. KOREN, C.D. BUTLER

      Pages 109-125

   3. Statistical Models for Distributions of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter

      • S. Yeh, M. Small

      Pages 127-150

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.

• ecology
• environment
• environmental management
• environmental risk assessment
• transport
• ecotoxicology

From the reviews:

"This book is the third of a series of proceedings of NATO Advanced Research Workshops … . they are stimulating and they do lead to the generation of new ideas through interactions of scientists who would not meet through their usual round of meetings. This proceedings volume reflects that dynamic. … The 2 authors optimistically anticipate … increased trans-boundary cooperation in general which would promote peace and economic development. I am inspired by their vision of bringing enlightenment values and approaches … ." (Glenn Suter, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Vol. 4 (2), 2008)

• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Benoit Morel, Igor Linkov

• Cambridge Environmental, Inc., Cambridge, USA

  Igor Linkov

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