Responding to Environmental Conflicts: Implications for Theory and Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Theoretical Linkages and Policy Approaches to the Environment and Security Debate: Providing an Overview

   • Eileen Petzold-Bradley, Alexander Carius, Andreas March, Arpád Vincze

   Pages 1-19

3. Environment and Security on the International Agenda: Challenges for Environmental Policy

   • Kurt M. Lietzmann

   Pages 21-29

4. Negotiations to Avert Transboundary Environmental Security Conflicts

   • Bertram I. Spector

   Pages 31-52

5. Resource and Environmental Conflict: The-State-of-the-Art

   • Nils Petter Gleditsch

   Pages 53-66

6. Theoretical Aspects of Environmental Security

   • Hugh C. Dyer

   Pages 67-81

7. Cultural Differentiation as a Source of Environmental Conflict

   • Yannis N. Kinnas

   Pages 83-94

8. Comparative Environmental Policy and Risk Assessment

   • Gerhardus Schultink

   Pages 95-111

9. Side-Stepping Environmental Conflicts

   • Nicholas Pinter, Nancy S. Philippi, Russell Thomas

   Pages 113-132

10. The Security Diagram: An Approach to Quantifying Global Environmental Security

    • Joseph Alcamo, Marcel Endejan

    Pages 133-147

11. Environment and Security in Hungary

    • Arpád Vincze, László Halász

    Pages 149-159

12. Redefining Security Around the Baltic: Environmental Issues in Regional Context

    • Stacy D. Vandeveer, Geoffrey D. Dabelko

    Pages 161-187

13. Environment and Security Challenges in the Black Sea Region

    • Irena Rudneva, Eileen Petzold-Bradley

    Pages 189-207

14. Mechanisms of Environmental Security in Russia: Out of Order?

    • Vladimir Kotov, Elena Nikitina

    Pages 209-224

15. Democratization, Nationalism and Eco-Politics: The Slovak-Hungarian Conflict Over the Gabikovo-Nagymaros Dam System on the Danube

    • Miklós Sükösd

    Pages 225-238

16. Preventing Environmentally-Induced Conflicts Through International Environmental Policy

    • Sebastian Oberthür

    Pages 239-251

17. Environment and Security: Institutional Approaches Within the European Union

    • Margaret Brusasco-Mackenzie

    Pages 253-261

18. The Unece Environmental Conventions: Their Role and Potential to Promote Conflict Prevention and Settlement of Disputes in Transboundary Environmental Issues

    • Branko Bosnjakovic

    Pages 263-282

19. Achievements and Limitations of International Environmental Regimes and Institutions in Positive Dispute Prevention: UNEP’s Role

    • Sabine J. H. Hoefnagel, Aiko U.D. Bode

    Pages 283-308

A comprehensive tour d'horizon of the debate on the environment and security, focusing on the various policy options for building peace and preventing environmental conflict. Experts from the areas survey the key environmental challenges in Eastern and Central European states and those of the former Soviet Union, extending the debate to such regions as the Balkans, the Black Sea and Central Europe. This is the first time such extensive case study research has been reported for these regions.
Both practical and theoretical approaches to the debate are presented, within a multi-disciplinary framework, the contributors ranging from academic experts involved with peace and conflict research to actual policy makers active in the fields of environmental and security policy.
Readership: Experts already working in the relevant disciplines, both academic and governmental, as well as those seeking an introduction to the various policy fields. A graduate-level study text, excellent survey for policy makers and an academic contribution to ongoing studies.

• Europe
• Institution
• Nation
• Policy
• Politics
• environment
• negotiations

• Ecologic-lnstitute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin, Germany

  Eileen Petzold-Bradley

• Adelphi Research, Berlin, Germany

  Alexander Carius

• Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University, Budapest, Hungary

  Arpád Vincze

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