Overview
How can environmental co-operation be used to bolster regional peace? A large body of research suggests that environmental degradation may catalyze violent conflict. Environmental co-operation, in contrast, has gone almost unexplored as a means of peacemaking, even though it opens several effective channels: enhancing trust, establishing habits of co-operation, lengthening the time horizons of decisionmakers, forging co-operative trans-societal linkages, and creating shared regional norms and identities. This volume examines the case for environmental peacemaking by comparing progress, prospects, and problems related to environmental peacemaking initiatives in six regions - South Asia, Central Asia, the Baltic, Southern Africa, the Caucasus, and the US-Mexico border. The regions vary dramatically in terms of scale, interdependencies, history, and kinds of insecurity, but each is marked by a highly fluid, changing security order, creating a potential for environmental co-operation to have a catalytic effect on peacemaking. Among the volume's key findings are these: that substantial potential for environmental peacemaking exists in most regions; that significant tensions from narrower efforts to improve the strategic climate among mistrustful governments can impair broader trans-societal efforts to build environmental peace; and that the effects of environmental peacemaking initiatives are highly sensitive to the ways they are institutionalized.
Full Product Details
Author: Ken Conca (Associate Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland) ,
Geoffrey D. Dabelko (Woodrow Wilson Center)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780801871931
ISBN 10: 080187193
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 27 December 2002
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
<p> Ken Conca and Geoffrey Dabelko have put together an interesting and useful volume on the potential linkages between environmental cooperation and peace... informative and well written... should be read by scholars and policy actors interested in the potential ways environmental cooperations might promote peace rather than violence. -- Rodger A. Payne, ECSP Report
<p>Provocative and invaluable... makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the link between environment cooperation and peace.--Dimitrios Konstadakopulos Perspectives on Politics (01/01/2005)
Author Information
Ken Conca is associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and director of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda. Geoffrey D. Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change and Security Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
