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This comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem
of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It
analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food,
water and health insecurities, resulting in population migration.
Chapters cover how these contribute globally to societal insecurity
and violent conflict in a growing number of regions. Featuring
contributions from leading international scholars, the Handbook is
divided into thematic sections, examining first the effects of
environmental scarcity on security at a macro level before delving
into region-specific issues and challenges. The final section
investigates the actors, institutions and processes engaged with
environmental security, discussing the shifting international
political discourse and how this is challenging the conservative
military security paradigm. The combination of comparative global
analysis alongside regionally focused studies makes this Handbook
an invaluable resource for all scholars and students of environment
and climate security. It will also be of interest to policy
professionals working on issues of environmental scarcity and new
security challenges.
Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security provides the first
comprehensive look at Middle East security issues that includes
both traditional and emerging security threats. Taking a broad
perspective on security, the volume offers both analysis grounded
in the 'hard' military and state security discourse but also delves
into the 'soft' aspects of security employing a human security
perspective. As such the volume addresses imminent challenges to
security, such as the ones relating directly to the war in Syria,
but also the long-term challenges. The traditional security
problems, which are deep-seated, are at risk of being exacerbated
also by a lack of focus on emerging vulnerabilities in the region.
While taking as a point of departure the prevalent security
discourse, the volume also goes beyond the traditional focus on
military or state security and consider non-traditional security
challenges. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of
research on the key challenges for security in the Middle East; it
will be a key resource for students and scholars interested in
Security Studies, International Relations, Political Science and
Middle Eastern Studies.
The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people
in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for
agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much
contested development, not only between upstream and downstream
neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book
investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile Basin. It
explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both
by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects already
strained transboundary relations in the region and how investments
are intertwined within wider contexts of Nile Basin history,
politics and economy. Overall, the book presents a range of
perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations
theory, sociology, history and political ecology.
The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people
in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for
agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much
contested development, not only between upstream and downstream
neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book
investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile Basin. It
explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both
by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects already
strained transboundary relations in the region and how investments
are intertwined within wider contexts of Nile Basin history,
politics and economy. Overall, the book presents a range of
perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations
theory, sociology, history and political ecology.
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water
management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates.
The starting point for this book is that actors within
transboundary water management institutions develop responses to
the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon
of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three
distinct ways - adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and
subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The
book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two
decades to promote more effective water management institutions,
covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new
framework for a better understanding of the interaction between
transboundary water management institutional resilience and global
change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions
respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to
six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East
(Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu)
from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are
developed.
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water
management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates.
The starting point for this book is that actors within
transboundary water management institutions develop responses to
the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon
of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three
distinct ways - adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and
subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The
book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two
decades to promote more effective water management institutions,
covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new
framework for a better understanding of the interaction between
transboundary water management institutional resilience and global
change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions
respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to
six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East
(Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu)
from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are
developed.
Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security provides the first
comprehensive look at Middle East security issues that includes
both traditional and emerging security threats. Taking a broad
perspective on security, the volume offers both analysis grounded
in the 'hard' military and state security discourse but also delves
into the 'soft' aspects of security employing a human security
perspective. As such the volume addresses imminent challenges to
security, such as the ones relating directly to the war in Syria,
but also the long-term challenges. The traditional security
problems, which are deep-seated, are at risk of being exacerbated
also by a lack of focus on emerging vulnerabilities in the region.
While taking as a point of departure the prevalent security
discourse, the volume also goes beyond the traditional focus on
military or state security and consider non-traditional security
challenges. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of
research on the key challenges for security in the Middle East; it
will be a key resource for students and scholars interested in
Security Studies, International Relations, Political Science and
Middle Eastern Studies.
Increasingly the Middle East and its growing population face a
highly complex and fragile security system. The rich deposits of
natural resources, such as oil and gas, suffer from a strained
renewable resource base that includes water and arable land. This
leads to water scarcity, desertification, and land degradation.
Increasing population, industrialization, and urbanization put more
and more demand on the food supply. Energy insecurity may not be
generally associated with the Middle East, but the countries in the
eastern Mediterranean part have been traditionally vulnerable to it
as their fossil fuel endowments have been low. Another issue is the
large-scale temporary labor migration and the large number of
forced migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons. The
book analyzes these emerging security challenges in a comprehensive
and systematic manner. It draws national and regional security
issues into both the global security and human security
perspectives.
Increasingly the Middle East and its growing population face a
highly complex and fragile security system. The rich deposits of
natural resources, such as oil and gas, suffer from a strained
renewable resource base that includes water and arable land. This
leads to water scarcity, desertification, and land degradation.
Increasing population, industrialization, and urbanization put more
and more demand on the food supply. Energy insecurity may not be
generally associated with the Middle East, but the countries in the
eastern Mediterranean part have been traditionally vulnerable to it
as their fossil fuel endowments have been low. Another issue is the
large-scale temporary labor migration and the large number of
forced migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons. The
book analyzes these emerging security challenges in a comprehensive
and systematic manner. It draws national and regional security
issues into both the global security and human security
perspectives.
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