Environmental Change and Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVI

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2. Opening Address

   1. Opening Address

      • Walter Hirche

      Pages 1-3

3. The Environment and Security Nexus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Environment and Security in International Politics — An Introduction

      • Alexander Carius, Kerstin Imbusch

      Pages 7-30

   3. Environment and Security in the Context of the NATO/CCMS

      • Kurt M. Lietzmann

      Pages 31-36

   4. Environmental Conflict Research — Paradigms and Perspectives

      • Lothar Brock

      Pages 37-53

   5. The Role of Environmental Policy in Peace and Conflict Research

      • Michael Windfuhr

      Pages 55-88

   6. Environment and Security: The Demographic Dimension

      • Manfred Wöhlcke

      Pages 89-103

4. Characterization and Taxonomies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Environmental Degradation in the South as a Cause of Armed Conflict

      • Günther Baechler

      Pages 107-129

   3. Syndromes of Global Change: A Taxonomy for Peace and Conflict Research

      • Frank Biermann

      Pages 131-146

   4. Conflict Research and Environmental Conflicts: Methodological Problems

      • Christoph Rohloff

      Pages 147-164

5. Modeling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Environmentally-Induced Conflict — Methodological Notes

      • Wolf-Dieter Eberwein

      Pages 167-181

   3. Modeling Environmental Conflict

      • Detlef F. Sprinz

      Pages 183-194

   4. Environmental Conflict and Sustainable Development: A Conflict Model and its Application to Climate and Energy Policy

      • Jürgen Scheffran

      Pages 195-218

6. Foreign and Security Policy Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. The Foreign Policy Dimension of Environmentally-Induced Conflicts

      • Bernd Wulffen

      Pages 221-231

   3. Environmental Threats and International Security — The Action Potential for NATO

      • Volker R. Quante

      Pages 233-246

7. Environment and Development Policy Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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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.

• Climate Change
• Entwicklungspolitik
• Konfliktforschung
• conflict research
• development
• development policy
• environmental management
• environmental politics
• international affaires
• international relations
• internationale Beziehungen
• sustainable developm
• industrial pollution prevention

• Ecologic, Berlin, Germany

  Alexander Carius

• Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Department RS I 5, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Bonn, Germany

  Kurt M. Lietzmann

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