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The Environment-Conflict Nexus

Climate Change and the Emergent National Security Landscape

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Editors:
  1. Francis Galgano

    1. Department of Geography and the Environment, Villanova University, Villanova, USA

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  • Examines environmental security directly through the lens of national security affairs
  • Approaches environmental security topically, using historical and contemporary case studies to explain concepts
  • Offers the perspective of a spatial geographer, allowing for the analysis of spatially dependent physical conditions and human interactions as they relate to environmental phenomena

Part of the book series: Advances in Military Geosciences (AMG)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Environment–Conflict Nexus

    • Francis A. Galgano
    Pages 1-17

  3. States at Risk: The Environment–Conflict Model

    • Francis A. Galgano
    Pages 19-45

  4. Defining Climate Change: What to Expect in a Warmer World

    • Adam J. Kalkstein
    Pages 47-57

  5. Abrupt Climate Change

    • Francis A. Galgano
    Pages 59-72

  6. Water in the Middle East

    • Francis A. Galgano
    Pages 73-89

  7. Water, Land, and Governance: Environmental Security in Dense Urban Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Amy K. Richmond
    Pages 91-102

  8. When Politics, the Environment, and Advocacy Compete–Environmental Security in the South China Sea

    • Wiley C. Thompson
    Pages 103-118

  9. East Africa in World War I: A Geographic Analysis

    • Andrew D. Lohman
    Pages 119-137

  10. Conflict in the Horn of Africa: The Ogaden War of 1977

    • Francis A. Galgano
    Pages 139-154

  11. The 1994 Rwandan Genocide

    • Amy K. Richmond, Francis A. Galgano
    Pages 155-166

  12. Climate and the Syrian Civil War

    • Mark R. Read
    Pages 167-176

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 177-181
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About this book

The aim of this book is to demonstrate how environmental factors have caused an evolution in the landscape of national security since the end of the Cold War. Through relevant case studies, the scope of the problem on the national security landscape due to environmental stressors is illuminated, examined, and synthesized with climate-related data. Human variables such as governance, GDP, and vulnerability are taken into account, and are compared against environmental factors to more accurately determine the causative agents of regional conflicts which threaten national security. These case studies comprise the majority of the text, and they show how individual conflicts are uniquely influenced by environmental stress with variations from situation to situation. This book will be of interest to government and military professionals, and may serve as a resource for college courses in the areas of military geography, international affairs, and sustainability studies. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography and the Environment, Villanova University, Villanova, USA

    Francis Galgano

About the editor

Dr. Francis A. Galgano is an Associate Professor and the founding Chair of the Department of Geography and the Environment at Villanova University. Dr. Galgano conducts research in the field of geography and national security affairs, especially in the fields of environmental security, governance, and effective sovereignty. Specifically, he examines the relationship between environmental change and violent conflict. Dr. Galgano teaches related courses at Villanova such as the Geography of National Security, Sustainability Studies, Medical Geography, Land Use Planning,  and Humanitarian Development and Sustainability. He has published five books, three physical geography study guides, and more than thirty professional articles focused on geographic, environmental, and military subjects. 

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