Handbook of Security and the Environment

Edited by Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Joakim Öjendal, Professor of Peace and Development Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden and Anders Jägerskog, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, The World Bank, Washington DC, US

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements xiv
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: security and the environment – the link 2
Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal and Anders Jägerskog

PART II MACRO PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
2 Scarcity, abundance and migration: the future of environmental security 14
James R. Lee
3 Global climate change and security threats 26
Simon Dalby
4 Global water crises and challenges for water security 40
Larry A. Swatuk
5 Climate change and (in)security in transboundary river basins 62
David Michel, Mats Eriksson and Martina Klimes
6 Revisiting freshwater abundance within the peace and conflict discourse 76
Adan E. Suazo

PART III MICRO PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
7 Environment and security in West Africa: response of the international
community and the complexity on the ground 88
Mats Hårsmar
8 Mining, environmental changes and human security in South Africa 103
Sethulego Matebesi
9 Green impunity: measuring ecojustice, institutional capacities and
policy design as an approach to environmental security 115
Celeste Cedillo and Juan Antonio Le Clercq
10 Climate change and security threats in Southeast Asia 132
Elliot Brennan
11 Cases and implications of environmental insecurity in Southeast Asia 149
Mely Caballero-Anthony and Margareth Sembiring
12 Environment and energy in Central Asia: challenges and prospects 162
Vakur Sümer, Dauren Aben and Zhengizkhan Zhanaltay
13 Water and environmental security in China 176
Zhijian Wang and Samuel Smith
14 Environment and security in India: a hyphenated discourse 192
Jayati Srivastava
15 Nepal: reflections on the environmental and human security debate 212
Bishnu Raj Upreti
16 Security and environment in the Middle East 228
Nadim Farajalla, Elie Dib, Olivia Macharis and Emil Kaston

PART IV ACTORS AND PROCESSES ENGAGED WITH
ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
17 Climate change and the environment at the UN Security Council:
towards a comprehensive approach 241
Martin Wall and Janani Vivekananda
18 Understanding and framing scarcity, sustainability and security: why
and how to use the complexity lens 257
Shafiqul Islam and Enamul Choudhury
19 The environment of lasting peace: natural resources and climate change
in peace negotiations 273
Barbara Magalhaes Teixeira
20 Bribery, corruption, geopolitics and investigation 290
Mark Nuttall
21 Renewable energy, security and environment 307
Huiyi Chen
22 Displaced populations, food security and frontier agriculture 320
Dorte Verner and Edinaldo Tebaldi

Index