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144p.
Nine
basic sections make up the atlas: the natural environment setting, scientific
research, valuable and vulnerable resources, maritime jurisdictions and
boundaries, fisheries, shipping, oil and gas, pollution sources, and
integrations.
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Atlas
for Marine Policy in the East Asian Seas.
Joseph Morgan.
Berkeley,
CA : University of California Press, 1992.
152p.
Nine
basic sections make up the atlas: the natural environment setting, scientific
research, marine jurisdiction, vulnerable resources, maritime defense, shipping,
transnational navigational issues and possible cooperative responses, oil and
gas, fisheries and aquaculture, pollution, national marine environmental
policies and transnational issues, and integrations.
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184p.
The Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements contains an historical
overview of international river basin management; a detailed listing of more
than 300 international freshwater agreements; and a collection of thematic maps
related to the agreements, their content, and the river basins they represent.
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Bangladesh
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Published
quarterly, in January, April, July and October. The journal provides a forum for
debate and discussion on international affairs, security and development issues
in national, regional and global perspective.
D839 .B49 2003
Central
Asian Security : the New International Context.
Roy Allison and Lena Jonson. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press,
2001.
279p.
An analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of Central Asia as Russia
has become more disengaged from the nations in the region and as these nations
have developed new relations to the south, east, and west. The international
implications are enormous because of the rich energy sources-oil and natural
gas-located in the Caspian Sea area. The authors assess a variety of internal
security policy challenges confronting these states-for example, the potential
for conflict arising from such factors as a mixed ethnic population, resource
scarcity, particularly in relation to water management, and an Islamic revival.
These internal challenges and the evolution of relations with external powers
may result in new cooperative relationships, but they may also lead to
destabilizing rivalry and interstate enmity in Central Asia.
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Changing
Course : a Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment.
Stephane Schmidheiny.
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c1992.
374p.
Are
industry and the environment incompatible? A
practical introduction to new and necessary methods of running businesses so
that the realities of business and the marketplace support the realities of the
environment and the needs of human development.
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China
in the Mekong River Basin : The Regional Security Implications of Resource
Development on the Lancang Jiang.
Evelyn
Goh.
IDSS
working paper.
No.
69
Singapore : Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological
University, the Republic of Singapore, 1998-
July
2004. 17p.
The
Mekong River is a critical shared resource between China and five Southeast
Asian countries, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Over 80 million
people depend on the river for their livelihoods, but recent large-scale
resource development, especially in the form of hydropower development, pose
serious problems within the river basin. This paper focuses on China's plans for
hydropower development on its portion of the upper Mekong basin (Lancang Jiang)
and their ecological, political and economic implications for the Southeast
Asian riparians.
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China's
Energy Future: the Middle Kingdom Seeks its Place in the Sun.
Robert E. Ebel.
Washington, D.C. : The CSIS Press, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, c2005.
96p.
China, because of
its voracious appetite for oil, has become part of the "new game" redefining
the world oil industry. China's expanding economy requires more and more
foreign oil. Robert Ebel analyzes China's current energy situation and looks
at its future in the increasingly dynamic world energy market.
HD75.6 .S35 1992
Conflict
and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers: A Legal Perspective.
Salman M. A. Salman and Kishor
Uprety.
Washington D.C.:
The
World Bank,
2002.
217p.
Analyzes
five major bilateral treaty regimes on the South Asian subcontinent: between
India and Bangladesh for the Ganges River; between India and Nepal for the Kosi,
Gandaki, and Mahakali rivers; and between India and Pakistan for the Indus River.
It
explains the background and legal regimes of these international rivers in the
context of the serious challenges to the water resources of the subcontinent
posed by significant population increases, urbanization, industrialization, and
environmental degradation.
KZ3700 .S253 2002
Conflict
and the Environment.
Nils Petter Gleditsch.
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic
Publishers, c1997.
598p.
The end of the Cold War has opened up the arena for increased
attention to other lines of conflict. Environmental
disruption is a chief beneficiary of the shift
in priorities in the public debate. NATO has moved with the times and defined environmental security
as one of the priority areas for its cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe
and countries of the former Soviet Union. Research on these issues is now very much a collaborative effort across former lines of division in Europe. The
Introduction sets the tone: Our Future - Common, or None at All. The book
reveals the very real risks associated with environmental degradation, whether
of the land, waters or the oceans, and charts out previous disputes and points
to the very real danger of violent conflict associated with the drying up of
natural resources. The book ends with a section on Responses, which seeks to
provide answers to the threats discussed in the preceding sections.
GE170 .C642 1997
Conflict
Over Fisheries in the Palk Bay Region.
V. Suryanarayan.
New Delhi : Lancer Publishers & Distributors, c2005.
207p.
The Palk Bay region
which separates the coastal regions of Tamil Nadu from northern parts of Sri
Lanka has been in the headlines in recent years. The rich fishing waters,
especially lucrative on the Sri Lanka side of the maritime boundary, has
become a bone of contention between fisherman from both Sri Lanka and India.
As fisherman from both sides fish for less and less fish, tensions have
risen. How to resolve this issue without depriving the livlihood of either
side, is the focus of this book.
SH334 .S7 S87 2005
Conflict
Over Natural Resources in South-East Asia and the Pacific.
Teck Ghee Lim.
Singapore
: United Nations University Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
1990.
256p.
"Arose out of a conference organized
and supported by the United Nations University (UNU) project on 'peace and
global transformation' in 1985".
HC412.5 .C66 1990
Converting
Water Into Wealth : Regional Cooperation in Harnessing the Eastern Himalayan
Rivers.
B.G. Verghese. Delhi : Karnak Publishers, 1994. 137p.
Points out that regional cooperation in the harnessing of these rivers, home to
largest concentration of the world's poorest, offers to all the countries gains
far beyond anything that can be achieved by isolated national efforts.
HT395
.S66 C66 1994
Deep Water : the Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People and the
Environment.
Jacques Leslie.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
352p.
Jacques Leslie dramatizes the effects of dams to tell
the story of globalization and the world we live in. He interviews three
experts on dams: Medha Patkar, a charismatic Indian activist who has fought
against the completion of a giant dam in India by chaining herself to it
each year as the water rises, threatening to let herself be drowned unless
construction is ceased; a Berkeley professor named Thayer Scudder, who has
spent his career studying the effects of dams in Africa on the tribal people
they've displaced; and Don Blackmore, a man whose unenviable job is to
persuade Australian farmers to release water they've diverted from the
Murray River for personal use, in order to prevent a major drought in an
area Australians fancy as the next California. In each of these portraits,
Leslie brings into sharp focus the political, social, economic, and
environmental issues to which dams give rise.
TC540 .L495 2005
Earthly
Goods : Environmental Change and Social Justice.
Fen Osler Hampson. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell
University Press, 1996. 263p.
This is a great introduction into the sociopolitical debate
over climate change. In particular, it asks the question of how the everyday
citizen understands climate change and its impacts. It poses intriguing
questions as to how one looks at costs spread across generations and what
climate change will mean not now, but decades, even centuries down the road.
There are also chapters which ask wider questions on the role science plays in
political decisions. Overall, the collection
asks the reader to investigate what the concept of "good for society"
means in the debate over climate change. How does one codify "society"
itself; national borders; present generations? How these questions are addressed
have real consequences on our actions towards climate change.
HC79 .E5 E17 1996
East
Asia Imperilled : Transnational Challenges to Security.
Alan
Dupont.
Cambridge,
U.K.
: Cambridge
University
Press, 2001. 336p.
Dupont argues that an emerging new class of non-military threats has the
potential to destabilize East Asia and reverse decades of hard-won economic and
social development. Transnational threats stem from overpopulation,
deforestation and pollution, global warming, unregulated population movements,
transnational crime and virulent new strains of infectious diseases.
GE160 .E18 D86 2001
Economic
Values and the
Natural World.
David W. Pearce.
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1993.
129p.
In this book, David Pearce
addresses one of the single most important issues for economists dealing with
environmental problems: how to place economic value on aspects of the natural
world. Pearce provides a clear account of the context of and reasons for
economic valuation and surveys the economic approaches to placing monetary
values on people's preferences for environmental quality. He shows how the
different methods have been applied in practice -- with numerous detailed case
studies and analyses -- and explains how the results provide an economic
rationale for conserving the environment, whether it is the world's biological
diversity or the global atmosphere.
HC79 .E5 P368 1993
The Economics of Transnational Commons.
Partha Dasgupta.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
316p.
This is a multi-disciplinary volume of papers on the
issue of common property resources such as forests, fisheries, the atmosphere,
rivers, and oceans, ownership of which is common or shared. Management of these
resources is especially complex if ownership is shared between nations. The
contributors include distinguished economists, demographers, lawyers, and
scientists. "A study prepared for the World Institute for
Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)."
HC21 .E26 1997
Economies in Transition : Comparing Asia and Eastern
Europe.
Wing Thye Woo.
Cambridge, MA : MIT
Press, c1997.
412p.
This book takes an comparative approach to examining Asian and
Eastern European transition experiences, with a focus on developing a systematic
understanding of the economic and institutional dynamics underlying the
transformations from central-planned to market economies.
HC412 .E246 1996
Eco-structuring
: Implications for Sustainable Development.
Robert U. Ayres. New York : United Nations University Press, 1998.
417p.
Certain conclusions are made: there are limits to the capacity of the
natural environment to accommodate disturbance: there are limits to the
sustainability of conventional market goods and services: there are limits to
the extent to which technology can repair or replace environmental resources
that are irreversibly damaged. To achieve sustainablity and to minimize
ecological risk, certain trends must be reversed. Such a reversal will entail
very fundamental changes in the economic system. the directions and magnitudes
of these changes are assessed briefly and various approaches to their
implementation are analyzed.
HC79 .E5 E217 1998
Ecoviolence
: Links Among Environment, Population and Security.
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon.
Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c1998. 238p.
"Ecoviolence"
explores links between
environmental scarcities of key renewable resources-such as cropland, fresh
water, and forests-and violent rebellions, insurgencies, and ethnic clashes in
developing countries. Detailed contemporary studies of civil violence in Chiapas,
Gaza, South Africa, Pakistan, and Rwanda show how environmental scarcity has
played a limited to significant role in causing social instability in each of
these contexts.
GE160 .D44 E28 1998
The
Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Casual Connections and
Behavioral Mechanisms.
Oran R. Young.
Cambridge,
MA :
The
MIT Press, 1999.
326p.
Discusses
three major environmental concerns: intentional vessel-source oil pollution,
shared fisheries, and transboundary acid rain.
K3585.4 .E34 1999
Energizing
China : Reconciling Environmental Protection and Economic Growth.
Michael B. McElroy.
[Cambridge,
MA] : Harvard University Committee on Environment : Distributed by Harvard
University Press, c1998.
719p.
As China develops its booming, fossil fuel-powered economy, is
it taking lessons from the history of Western industrialization and the
unforeseen environmental harms that accompanied it? Given the risks of climate
change, is there an imperative, shared responsibility to help China respond to
the environmental effects of its coal dependence? By linking global hazards to
local air pollution concerns -- from indoor stove smoke to burgeoning
ground-level ozone -- this volume of eighteen studies seeks integrated
strategies to address simultaneously a range of harmful emissions.
Counterbalancing the scientific inquiry are key chapters on China's unique
legal, institutional, political, and cultural factors in effective pollution
control.
GE185 .C6E54 1998
Energy at the Crossroads : Global Perspectives and Uncertainties.
Vaclav Smil.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2005.
427p.
Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first
century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing
demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of
the biosphere. With this book he offers a comprehensive, accessible guide to
today's complex energy issues-how to think clearly and logically about what
is possible and what is desirable in our energy future.
HD9502 .A2 S543 2005
Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region.
Dennis Rumley and Sanjay Chaturvedi.
New Delhi
: South Asian Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2005.
306p.
Selection
of papers presented in the Conference held in Tehran in February 2004, in
collaboration with Iranian Institute for Political and International
Studies. Covers India, Japan, Thailand and Burma (Myanamar), China, Persian
Gulf.
HD9502 .I42 E64 2005
Enhancing
Clean Energy Supplies for Development: a Natural Gas Pipeline for India and
Pakistan.
T. A. Siddiqi.
New
Delhi: Balusa, Inc., 2003.
77p.
Explores
energy development between India and Pakistan; specifically an overland natural
gas pipeline.
HD9502 .S53 2003
Environment.
Peter H. Raven.
Fort
Worth : Saunders College Publishing, 1993.
569p.
A beautifully illustrated, introductory textbook in
environmental science that explains the basic ecological principles which govern
the natural world and considers the many ways in which humans affect the
environment. It acquaints undergraduate students, both science and non-science
majors, with current environmental issues, and examines in detail the effects of
human activities including overpopulation, energy production and consumption,
depletion of natural resources, and pollution. A variety of supplementary
materials are available.
GE70 .R38 1993
Environment
and Emerging Development Issues.
Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Goran Maler. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.
2 volumes.
This book presents a set of authoritative studies of the role of environmental
resources in the development process, written by some of the most expert
professionals in a wide range of associated fields. Contributors address the
problems connected with the management of local common property resources, such
as soil, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries, and supply
both explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. These
volumes
offer a better understanding
of geographically localized environmental problems.
HC79.5 .E58 1997
Environment
and National Security : the South Asian Experience.
Narottam Gaan.
Denver, CO : Academic Books, c2000. 265p.
The
world is politically segregated into 192 intensely sovereign states the
boundaries of which do not usually coincide with the many major watersheds and
other ecologically defined regions of the world. This widespread incongruence
between politically defined units and ecologically defined units is the
underlying basis for numerous natural-resources and other environmental disputes
between neighboring and near-neighboring states. It is also a major reason
why a growing majority of the world's states can no longer achieve the national
security that is an obligation to provide their inhabitants. This book explores
of the concept of environmental security.
GE160 .S64 G33 2000
Environment
Energy and Economy : Strategies for Sustainability.
Yoichi Kaya and Keiichi Yokobori. New Your
:
United
Nations University Press, 1997.
381p.
Deals with the short-term and long-term issues associated with economic
development in developing as well as industrialized countries. It examines
various aspects of the interrelationships among the environment, energy
requirements, and economic development. Emphasizes the increasing environmental
stress arising from energy consumption, environmental degradation in developing
countries, the impacts of deforestation, climate change, and other barriers to
achieving sustainable development.
HC79 .E5 E5726 1997
Environment,
Scarcity, and Violence.
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon.
Princeton,
N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999.
253p.
The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion
by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever
increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face
growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water,
and forests. The author argues that these
environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences -- contributing
to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest and other forms of civil
violence, deepened poverty, large-scale migrations, and weakened institutions, especially in the developing world. He also acknowledges that human ingenuity can
reduce the likelihood of conflict, particularly in countries with efficient
markets, capable states, and an educated populace. But he argues that the violent
consequences of scarcity should not be underestimated -- especially when about
half the world's population depends directly on local renewables for their
day-to-clay well-being.
HN981 .V5 H65 1999
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Thomas H. Tietenberg,
Boston : Addison Wesley, c2003.
646p.
Discusses government policy towards the environment.
HC79 .E5 T525 2002
Environmental Change, Adaptation, and Security.
S.C. Lonergan. Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. 423p.
Papers presented at the NATO workshop on Environment Change Adaptation
and Security. Papers cover topics related to resources and human security,
transboundary issues, health, and environmental change.
GE149 .E46 1999
Environmental Change and International Law : New
Challenges and Dimensions.
Edith Brown
Weiss. Tokyo, Japan : United
Nations University Press, c1992.
493p.
This
volume was part of the preparation for the 1992 UN Conference on
Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro. It analyzes
issues in international environmental law, draws analogies from international
human rights law, and outlines likely future trends.
Since the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm,
international environmental law has been gathering momentum and building
protections against such international problems as ocean dumping, trans-boundary
air pollution, and trafficking in endangered species. The pace of agreement and
the severity of the problems needing to be addressed have grown. There is
constant reference in the papers to mankind's right to a viable environment. The
prospect of a doubled world
population in the next century is seen as one of the most serious barriers to
sustainable development, demanding
global cooperation in addressing population growth.
K3585.4 .E568 1992
Environmental
Economics : Individual Incentives and Public Choices.
Ian Hodge. New York : St.
Martin's Press, 1989. 205p.
This book explains and assesses the role of economics in the choices
which are made about the environment, in the explanation of sources of
degradation, in the assessment of change and in the development of policy. Four
case studies are presented on air pollution, the countryside, the rain forest
and climate change.
HC79 .E5 H63 1995
Environmental Management and the Conflict in
Southeast Asia - Land Reclamation and its political impact.
Kog Yue-Choong. Singapore : Institute of Defence and Strategic
Studies, Nanyang Technological University, the Republic of Singapore.
This paper will argue that the dispute between Singapore and Malaysia as well as
Singapore and Indonesia should not be securitized. Instead such non-traditional
security issues should be viewed as 'desecuritized'. This need is particularly
acute in this uncertain time because of threats of terrorism and the challenge
of escalation in economic rivalry brought about by globalisation and the opening
of China and India.
UA832.8 .I21 2006
Environmental Management and Economic Development.
Gunter Schramm and Jeremy
J. Warford. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1989.
208p.
Environmental
degradation threatens the productivity of agricultural and forest resources on
which developing countries depend for their economic growth.
The
problem is most pervasive in the poorest countries, where poverty and population
pressures compel people to deplete the natural resources to meet their immediate
needs for survival. Authors focus on how developing countries can protect and
even improve their natural environment while continuing to improve the economic
and social welfare of their people.
HD75.6
.E57 1989
Environmental Performance Measurement : the Global
Report 2001-2002.
World Economic Forum.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
208p.
Environmental
decision-making has long been plagued by uncertainties and a lack of critical
information. The data and analyses needed for thoughtful and systematic action
to minimize pollution harms and to optimize the use of natural resources are
often unavailable or seem too costly to obtain. As a result, choices are made on
the basis of generalized observations and best guesses, or worse yet, rhetoric
or emotion. Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001-2002
presents a new approach to environmental decision-making based on facts and
analytic rigor. It collects in one place the largest amount of environmental
data that has ever been assembled at the nation-state scale. Presented here is
the first serious attempt not only to measure environmental sustainability in
one summary indicator, but also to rank 122 countries on the basis of this
index. In addition, country profiles provide detailed information about the
environmental performance of these countries across 22 critical environmental
indicators.
HD75.6
.E575 2002
Environmental Security : What is DOD's Role?
Kent Hughes Butts. [Carlisle
Barracks, PA] : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [1993].
41p.
U413 .A75 B88 1993
Faultlines
of Conflict in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
Edited by Olga Oliver and
Thomas S. Szayna. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2003. 379p.
In the region of Central Asia and South Caucasus, what is the potential
for armed conflict, and how might such outbreaks escalate to a level that could
involve U.S. forces? The authors evaluate the key political, economic, and
societal faultlines underlying the likelihood of conflict in the region,
assessing their implications for regional stability and for U.S. interests and
potential involvement over the next 10 to 15 years.
GE140 .R46 1996
Fighting
for Survival : Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of
Insecurity.
Michael Renner. New York : W.W. Norton
& Co., c1996. 239p.
Part of the Worldwatch Institute's Environmental Alert series. In the
aftermath of the Cold War, it is becoming clear that it is not the march of
armies that is the clearest threat to peace and stability but rather the
disaster of pervasive resource loss, refugees who are forced across borders, and
social instability that makes war primarily an action within, rather than
between, states. Poverty, unequal distribution of land, and the degradation of
ecosystems are among the most pressing issues undermining security.
GE140 .R46 1996
For the Common Good : Redirecting the Economy Toward
Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future.
Herman E. Daly & John
B. Cobb, Jr. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. 534p.
Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr.,
demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy
have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of
a different future.
Pushing for economic growth above all else, industrial nations ignore the damage
done to the biosphere by the profligate use of energy and scarce resources. Daly
and Cobb set forth a detailed, far-reaching blueprint for a highly decentralized
economy built around small communities, scaled to human needs and stewardship of
the planet. Their critique of contemporary economic thinking leads to specific
proposals. These include a tax on industrial polluters, worker participation in
management and ownership, reduced military expenditures and a self-sufficient
national economy that relies less on imports. In place of gross national
product, they put forth an "index of sustainable economic welfare" as
a yardstick of true growth.
HD75.6 .D35 1994
Freer Trade, Protected Environment : Balancing Trade
Liberalization and Environmental Interests.
C. Ford Runge. New York : Council on
Foreign Relations Press, c1994.
146p.
Following a series of eight meetings of a group of
environmental and trade policy experts (including the author), Runge offers his
own examination of the issues. He means to educate, not propose
solutions to the clash between proponents of expanded trade and environmental
protection; the two sides are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Nor does Runge offer this as the last word on the topic; he lists other titles
in his preface that will give the reader a more
thorough understanding of this debate.
His contention is that the two sides
can coexist, but only if politicians spend some considerable time educating
themselves.
HF1713 .R86 1993
Fueling
War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflict.
Philippe Le Billon. New York :
International Institute for Strategic Studies, c2005. 92p.
Analyses the economic and political vulnerability of resource-dependent
countries; assesses how resources influence the likelihood and course of
conflicts; and discusses current initiatives to improve resource governance in
the interest of peace. It concludes that long-term stability in
resource-exporting regions will depend on their developmental outcomes, and
calls for a broad reform agenda prioritizing the basic needs and security of
local populations.
U162
.A3 373 2005
The
Future of the
Environment
: Ecological Economics and Technological Change.
Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie Lange. New York
: Oxford University Press, 1994. 222p.
Book attempts to tell several different stories. The most important one
consists of practical conclusions about what needs to be done to forestall
increasingly serious environmental problems. Assesses the economic and
environmental consequences of following a particular path over the next decades.
Asks the question "how much would it cost to clean up the environment"
and how would we go about doing this.
HC79 .E5 F88 1994
Global Climate Change.
Paul McCaffrey.
New York : H. W. Wilson, c2006. 192p.
Of the many challenges confronting humanity in
the 21st century, few are likely to prove as important - or as daunting - as
global climate change. Central to the dilemma is the debate surrounding it,
particularly the degree to which man contributes to this phenomenon.
QC981.8 .C5 G644 2006
Global Governance : Drawing Insights from the
Environmental Experience.
Cambridge,
MA : MIT Press, c1997. 364p.
The emerging environmental agenda has
prompted an awareness of the need for new arrangements to achieve sustainable
human/environment relations. Especially notable is the growth of specific
regimes to deal with matters such as endangered plants and animals, migratory
species, airborne pollutants, marine pollution, hazardous wastes, ozone
depletion, and climate change. Non-state actors have made particularly striking
advances in the creation and maintenance of these environmental regimes. The
contributors to this volume address four central questions: Has regime
analysis produced a distinctive conception of governance that can be applied to
the solution of collective-action problems at the international level? Can we
identify the conditions necessary for international "governance without
government" to succeed? Does the emergence of regimes in specific issue
areas have broader consequences for the future of international society? Can we
generalize from experience with environmental issues to a broader range of
international governance problems?
GE170
.G58
1997
Global
Resources and International Conflict : Environmental Factors in Strategic Policy
and Action.
Arthur H. Westing. Oxford
[Oxfordshire] ; New York :
Oxford University Press, 1986.
280p.
"Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, United Nations
Environment Program."
UA11 .G57 1986
Global Warming: the Complete Briefing.
John Houghton.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
1997.
251p.
Explores the scientific basis of global warming and
the likely impacts of climate change on human society in this comprehensive
guide to the subject. Addresses the action that could be taken by
governments, industry and individuals to mitigate the effects of global
warming.
QC981.8 .G56 H68 1997
Global Warming in the 21st Century.
Bruce E. Johansen.
Westport, CN : Praeger, c2006. 3 vols.
This three-volume work presents a critical mass
of evidence that global warming is already exerting a dramatic influence
over air, land, and sea temperatures, with disastrous results for flora,
fauna, and humans. This unique work also explains scientific theories on the
subject that sometimes conflict with popular assumptions. Bruce Johansen
proposes detailed solutions, including a worldwide overhaul in energy
sources.
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Greed and Grievance : Economic Agendas in Civil Wars.
Mats Berdal and David M. Malone.
Ottawa : Lynne Rienner, 2000.
251p.
Contributors from international relations,
area studies, peace research, strategic studies, and other fields consider
the economic rationality of conflict for belligerents in civil wars, the
economic strategies that elites use to sustain their positions, and in what
situations elites find war to be more profitable than peace. They also
consider what incentives and disincentives are available to international
actors seeking to restore peace to war-torn societies. The 11 papers are
from an April 1999 conference in London.
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Green, Inc. : a Guide to Business and the Environment.
Frances Cairncross. Washington,
D.C. : Island Press, c1995.
277p.
The 1990s have seen an extraordinary amount of activity on the
environmental front: the emergence of global warming as a serious concern, the
successful completion of several environmental treaties, conflicts over trade
and the environment, the discovery of the severity of pollution in the former
Soviet empire, the greening of the World Bank, and the widespread acknowledgment
that industry can make money by pursuing responsible environmental policies.
Author delves into these and other topics, focusing
her attention on those aspects of environmental issues that have economic
implications. She examines the relationship between the environment and
industrial competitiveness, international trade, aid to developing countries,
energy efficiency, waste management, and economic growth.
Author
explores the implications of three related themes: that economic
growth can be combined with environmental protection; that a sense of proportion
is needed in evaluating and reacting to environmental threats; and that industry
has a vital role in finding solutions to environmental problems.
HD69 .P6C34 1995
Green
Markets : the Economics of Sustainable Development.
Theodore
Panayotou. San Fransisco, CA : ICS Press, 1993. 169p.
Environmental issues have played an important part in the news in recent
years, and the public debate has tended to focus on trade-offs between
conservation and economic growth. The belief that in order to grow countries had
no choice but to deplete their resources, saving environmental concerns for a
later, wealthier stage of development. The author presents analysis on how
economics both explains environmental degradation and suggests solutions. The
key is the proper valuation of resources.
UA11 .G57 1986
Hard
Green
: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists : a Conservative Manifesto.
Peter
W. Huber.
New York, NY : Basic Books, c1999. 224p.
Huber, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has written
an ultraconservative manifesto aimed at exposing the fallacies of soft green
environmental policy and reinvigorating the conservationalist ethic of Theodore
Roosevelt. In his introduction, he outlines the difference between
Hard and Soft Greens in four areas.
Surveys the present and
future of environmental issues from a capitalist green perspective, and sets forth a conservative environmental platform, with regard to
scarcity, pollution, politics, and ethics.
GE195 .H83 1999
Harnessing
the Eastern Himalayan Rivers : Regional Cooperation in South Asia.
B.G. Verghese.
Delhi
: Kanark Publishers, c1993.
286p.
Discusses how harnessing this river system could lift the region out of
poverty and set it on a path of sustainable growth. Unless this done with a
sense commitment and urgency, regional peace and stability in this part of
South Asia could be imperiled.
HT 395.S66.H37
1993
The
Human Right to Water: Legal and Policy Dimensions.
Salman M.A. Salman & Siobhan
McInerney-Lankford.
Washinton, D.C. : World Bank,2004.
180p.
Traces the issue of the right to water through a number of
international legal instruments, particularly General Comment No. 15 which
recognizes such a right. This study argues that the Comment supports the idea
that there is an incipient right to water emerging in international law today.
This right is buttressed by a large number of soft law instruments, emerging
customary international law, as well as an increasing number of domestic law
instruments.
K3260 .S25 2004
Hydro-Politics
in the 3rd World : Conflict and Cooperation in International River Basins.
Arun
P. Elhance.
Washington,
D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1999.
309p.
With
more than 50 percent of the world's landmass covered by river basins shared by
two or more states, competition over water resources has always had the
potential to spark violence.
Author
explores the hydropolitics of six of the world's largest river basins. In each
case, Elhance examines the basin's physical, economic, and political geography;
the possibilities for acute conflict; and efforts to develop bilateral and
multilateral agreements for sharing water resources. Author concludes that it
may not be possible for states to solve their water problems by going to war,
and that eventually even the strongest states will be compelled to seek
cooperation with their weaker neighbors.
HD1691 .E43 1999
International
Energy Policy, the Arctic and the Law of the Sea.
Edited
by Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore & Alexander S. Skaridov. Leiden/Boston:
Martinus Nijhoff, 2005. 339p.
The economic health of the
global economy is directly tied to international energy policies, and none are
more important than those of Russia, which is now the world's largest petroleum
export nation. At the same time, oil and gas are finite resources and new
sources of supply must be found. It is certain that the Arctic will be one of
the areas of greatest interest. Wherever the energy resource originates, the law
of the sea regime will be critical in the movement from source to market. The
perspectives of Russia, China and the United States are discussed in depth by
some of the world's foremost authorities. The special significance of the
Caspian Sea routes for export and the consequences of the opening of a Northwest
Passage due to global warming are among the issues covered in this volume.
K3918
.A6 U55 2005
International
Relations in Southeast Asia : The Struggle for Autonomy.
Donald
E. Weatherbee. New
York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 306p.
This
balanced, comprehensive guide to Southeast Asian politics offers a sensible but
nondogmatic realist approach to the region's international relations.
The
author lucidly explains the dynamics of the Southeast Asian
subsystem as a struggle for autonomy in pursuit of national interests. He
explores three important questions, the answers to which will shape the future
Southeast Asia. Will democratic regimes transform international relations in
Southeast Asia? Will national leaders succeed in reinventing ASEAN as a more
effective collaborative mechanism? Finally, how will the evolving Chinese
position, balancing and perhaps displacing the United States as Asia's great
power, affect Southeast Asia's struggle for autonomy?
DS526.7
.W44 2005
The
Kyoto Protocol : a Guide and Assessment.
Michael Grubb.
[London,
England] : Energy and Environmental Programme, Royal Institute of International
Affairs ; Washington, D.C. : Distributed in North America by the Brookings
Institution, 1999.
342p.
A
concise and authoritative guide to the evolution, terms and implications of
the Kyoto Protocol, this book provides an economic and political account of
key policy debates and their outcome. It also explains the meaning of
provisions on emissions trading and other flexibility mechanisms, and provides
a quantitative analysis using the emissions trading model devised by the
RIIA's Energy and Environmental Program.
K3585.4 .G78 1999
Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity.
Sandra Postel.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. 239p.
As we
approach the twenty-first century, we are entering a new era - an era of
water scarcity. We have taken for granted seemingly endless supplies of
water flowing from reservoirs wells, and diversion projects; access to water
has been key to food security, industrialization, and the growth of cities.
Postel, vice president for research of the Worldwatch Institute, examines
the worldwide limits--ecological, economic, and political--of water, and
discloses existing methods to make water go further, decreasing the
likelihood of both scarcity and conflict.
TD345 .P67 1997
Learning to Manage Global
Environmental Risks.
Social Learning Group. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2001.
Book examines how the interplay of ideas and actions applied to
environmental problems has laid the foundations for global environmental
management. It looks at how ideas, interests, and institutions affect
management practice; how management capabilities in other areas affect the
ability to deal with specific environmental issues; and how learning affects
society's approach to the global environment. The book focuses on efforts to
deal with climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain from 1957 (The
International Geophysical Year) through 1992 (the UN Conference on Environment
and Development). Volume 1 provides an overview of the project, of global
environmental management in general, and of the three central environmental
issues studied; it also contains the individual country studies. Volume 2
contains the management function studies and the book's conclusion.
GE170 .L43
Vol.2 2001
Maldives : State of the Environment 2002 / United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Klong Luang, Thailand : United
Nations Environment Programme, 2002.
Explores the environmental conditions in
the Maldives now and proposes response measures that will serve the well-being
of citizens in the future. The vulnerability of the Maldives to global climate
change, beach erosion and related consequences is highlighted as critical
issues to be urgently addressed.
QH77 .M3 2002
Managing
Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century.
Adekeye Adebajo. London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass,
2001. 221p.
Drawing largely on the difficult experiences of managing
conflicts in the post-Cold War era, this volume focuses on the conflicts of the
1990s, suggesting new approaches and tools for conflict management in the
future. The essays are informed by comparative case analysis, analysis of
institutional processes and non-state actors, and sophisticated theoretical
claims about internal conflicts, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Chapter 2 deals
with natural resources and conflicts.
JZ5595 .M36 2001
Managing
Natural Wealth: Environment and Development in Malaysia.
Jeffrey R. vincent & Rozali Mohamed
Ali. Singapore: ISEAS,
2005. 468p.
The remarkably rich natural environment of
Malaysia attracts the interest of both developers and environmentalists.
"Managing Natural Wealth" analyzes major natural resource and environmental
policy issues in the country during the 1970s and 1980s -- a period of
profound socioeconomic change, rapid depletion of natural resources, and the
emergence of serious problems with pollution.
HC445.5 .Z9 E544 2005
Meeting
the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitiation Target: A Mid-term Assessment of
Progress.
UNICEF and World Health
Organization: New York, 2004. 33p.
In adopting the Millennium Development
Goals, the countries of the world pledged to reduce by half the proportion of
people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The results
so far are mixed. With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, the world is well on
its way to meeting the drinking water target by 2015, but progress in sanitation
is stalled in many developing regions. This report, produced by the WHO/UNICEF
Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), provides the
latest estimates and trends on where we stand today.
TD327 .M44 2004
National
Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan of the Maldives 2002.
Ahmed
Jameel.
Ministry
of Home Affairs, Housing and Environment, 2002.
110p.
The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan of the Maldives
was supported
by
the UN Development Program and the Global
Environment
Facility.
Covers the vision, guiding principles and goals of conservation
and sustainable use; integration of biodiversity conservation into a national
development process; adoption of policies and management measures for
sustainable use; development and establishment of measures for conservation; adoption of economic
incentives for conservation; improvement of knowledge
and understanding; increasing awareness and human resources development;
community participation using co-management and community mobilization;
implementation of the biodiversity strategy and action plan.
QH77 .M3 N28 2002
The
National Marine Policy : Selected Papers.
Foreign Service Institute (Philippines).
Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines : Foreign Service Institute, 1997.
71p.
Strategic perspectives on national marine
policy -- Natural resource and environmental aspects
of Philippine coastal and marine area planning and management -- National marine interests.
GC1023.76 .N38 1997
Natural Resources and Violent Conflict : Options and
Actions.
Ian Bannon.
Washington,
D.C. : World Bank, c2003. 409p.
Violent conflict can spell catastrophe for developing countries and their
neighbors, stunting and even reversing the course of economic growth. Recent research on the causes of conflict and civil war finds that the
countries most likely to be blighted by conflict are those whose economies
depend heavily on natural resources