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Author:   Max G. Manwaring ,  Vice Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II ,  Stephen Blank ,  Darci Glass-Royal
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780739104477

ISBN 10:   0739104470
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   23 November 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Foreword Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Environmental Security and Global Stability: Rethinking Problem and Response Chapter 4 Making Sense of Environmental Security Part 5 Case Studies in Environmental Degradation: Flashpoints Around the World Chapter 6 Geopolitics, National Security, and the Environment: An Example from the Trans-Caspian Region Chapter 7 Security Implications of Asia's Environmental Problems Chapter 8 A Micro Look at West Africa: Rural Water Resources, Environmental Sustainability, and Security Implications Chapter 9 Environmental Flashpoints in Africa: Ethiopia and the Blue Nile Chapter 10 Security Implications of Latin America's Environmental Problems Chapter 11 A Micro Look at Latin America: Security Implications of Panama's Environmental Problems Chapter 12 Water: The Hydraulic Parameter of Conflict in the Jordan River Basin Part 13 Where to From Here? Chapter 14 The Environment as a Global Stability-Security Issue

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Once ignored in the formulation of national security policy and strategy, environmental security today is addressed in every serious think-piece written on any region of the world. We have arrived, a little late, but together. Commanders of regional military commands, diplomats, policy wonks, oceanographers, foresters, hydrologists, special interest groups, and congressmen and presidents are all thinking about internal and cross-border instability all around the world. When these people look at the root causes of instability that might fester into conflict and possible state failure, more and more fingers point at natural and man-made causes and effects of environmental degradation. Pick your region--the chapter authors who follow have. Pick your poison--the chapters that follow cover many topics that make up the broad categories of environmental degradation and stressors. The authors discuss the consequences of aberrant water supply (too much and too little), deforestation, pollutio

The environment has become an essential component of national security, and U.S. interests require policy makers and implementers to understand and give attention to this subject. There is no better way to grasp the dimensions of and solutions for this area than by reading this superb book.--U.S. Ambassador (ret.) Edwin G. Corr, Associate Director

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Max G. Manwaring is Professor of Military Strategy at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. He is the editor of 9 books, including The Search for U.S. Security: A Forward Strategy for the 21st Century (with Edwin G. Corr and Robert H. Dorff, forthcoming) and Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century (2000).

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