Security and Environment in the Mediterranean: conceptualising security and environmental conflicts : with 177 figures and 144 tablesHans Günter Brauch Springer Science & Business Media, 2003 - 1134 pages 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. |
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... important aspects of development and sta- bility . The challenges facing the Mediterranean are tremendous , particu ... importance to its relation with Europe . The promotion of Arab - European relations consti- tutes a permanent item on ...
... important chal- lenges to security in the region . Two important re- marks will be introduced here : the one deals with a traditionally negative Arab attitude towards authority in general and its twin , concerning the inexperience of ...
... important challenges facing the Ar- abs today . The tethers of traditionalism keeping soci- ety in the confusing stage of transition remain power- ful . One curious fact remains to be mentioned , that this condition of transitionality ...
... important are the ecological benefits : we rely on forests and vegeta- tion to produce soil , to hold it together , and to regu- late supplies by preserving catchment basins , recharg- ing ground water and buffering extreme conditions ...
... important international meetings benefited from UNESCO's support : in São Paulo in August 1954 , in September 1954 ... importance of the basic significance of human values in general " ( Dreyer 1990 ) . This idea has been adopted in the ...
Contents
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XXX | 319 |
XXXI | 321 |
XXXII | 333 |
XXXIII | 345 |
XXXIV | 357 |
XXXV | 367 |
XXXVI | 369 |
XXXVII | 429 |
XXXVIII | 441 |
XXXIX | 453 |
XL | 455 |
XLI | 465 |
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XLIII | 487 |
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XLV | 513 |
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