The Environment-Conflict Nexus

Climate Change and the Emergent National Security Landscape
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-08146-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 181 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 306 g

Reihe: Advances in Military Geosciences

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galgano, Francis

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. The Environment–Conflict Nexus.- Chapter 2. States at Risk: The Environment–Conflict Model.- Chapter 3. Defining Climate Change: What to Expect in a Warmer World.- Chapter 4. Abrupt Climate Change.- Chapter 5. Water in the Middle East.- Chapter 6. Water, Land, and Governance: Environmental Security in Dense Urban Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 7. When Politics, the Environment, and Advocacy Compete–Environmental Security in the South China Sea.- Chapter 8. East Africa in World War I: A Geographic Analysis.- Chapter 9. Conflict in the Horn of Africa: The Ogaden War of 1977.- Chapter 10. The 1994 Rwandan Genocide.- Chapter 11. Climate and the Syrian Civil War.

Über Autor(innen)

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.