Environment and Security

ROBERT E. BEDESKI Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaROBERT W. CHANDLER Senior Councillor, Atlantic Council of the United StatesSIMON DALBY Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, OttawaSTEPHANIE L. EUBANKS Arms Control Policy Analyst, Office of Arms Control Implementation and Compliance, Government of the United StatesMARY MARGARET EVANS Deputy Director, Arms Control, Implementation and Compliance Office, Government of the United StatesJESSE H. HAMNER Doctoral Student, Department of Political Science, Emory UniversitySTEVE LONERGAN Professor, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British ColumbiaELIZABETH L. MALONE Manager, Global Climate Change Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United StatesRICHARD A. MATTHEW Assistant Professor, International and Environmental Politics, University of CaliforniaJ.W.MENTZ Treaty Manager, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Government of United StatesSTEVE RAYNER Chief Scientist, Global Climate Research Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, DCGALINA SERGEN Graduate Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, DCMICHAEL THOMPSON Social Anthropologist, Director, Musgrave Institute, LondonAARON T. WOLF Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

• List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Overview; M.R.Lowi & B.R.Shaw PART ONE: DISCOURSES The Changing Nature of National Security; M.M.Evans, J.W.Mentz, R.W.Chandler & S.L.Eubanks Integrating Environmental Factors into Conventional Security; R.A.Matthew Security, Governance, and the Environment; S.Rayner & E.L.Malone Human Security, Environmental Security and Sustainable Development; S.Lonergan Geopolitics and Ecology: Rethinking the Contexts of Environmental Security; S.Dalby PART TWO: PRACTICES Integration on Non-Traditional Security Issues: A Preliminary Application to South Korea; R.E.Bedeski Trends in Transboundary Water Disputes and Dispute Resolution; A.T.Wolf & J.H.Hamner Water and Conflict in the Middle East and South Asia: Environment and Security Linkages; M.R.Lowi Perceptions of Risk and Security: The Aral Sea Basin; G .Sergen & E.L.Malone Not Seeing the People for the Population: A Cautionary Tale from the Himalaya; M.Thompson Index

'Conflicts over shared natural resources, particularly water resources, can lead to armed conflict. Pursuing military security at the cost of social, economic and environmental well-being is akin to dismantling a house to salvage materials in order to erect a fence around. It is therefore very timely to have a book on Environment and Security. I am sure it will be of great benefit to all those interested in the subject of security.' - Mostafa Kamal Tolba, Former Executive Director UNEP (UN Environmental Program) 'This well-conceived volume combines a sophisticated understanding of international security with expertise on a wide range of environmental issues. The result is a series of studies that illuminate the nexus of environment and security without ever making exaggerated claims suggesting simple causality. These qualities make the book of as much interest to policy-makers as to the academic community.' - Richard Ullman, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University 'This useful collection, better integrated than most, deals effectively with an important and controversial array of problems. Its central message speaks wisely about the difficulties inherent in defining and then evaluating environmental security.' - Donald Kennedy, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University