Environmental Investigation Agency.  The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an international campaigning organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime.
Available at: http://www.eia-international.org/

Global Policy Forum. "The Dark Side of Natural Resources." Natural resources often lie at the heart of wars and civil strife. Huge mining and resource companies, including giants like Exxon Mobil and Anglo American/DeBeers, do not hesitate to use force in pursuit of their corporate interests. There are many players in this bloody nexus of natural resources and conflict, including shadowy resource traders, smugglers, corrupt local officials, arms dealers, transport operators and mercenary companies. Increasing scarcity of resources, driven by rising world population and the spread of unsustainable consumption, further sharpen such conflicts. NGOs, investigative journalists and UN expert panels have revealed some of the players in these clandestine networks and spotlighted governments that give them comfort, in the North as well as the South. This page looks especially at diamonds, oil, water and timber, as well as the broader issues of natural resources in conflict.
Available at: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/docs/minindx.htm

International Institute for Sustainable Development.  The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resources management. Founded in 1990, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is in the business of promoting change towards sustainable development. Management of natural resources is the frontline of the struggle for more sustainable and equitable development. Indicators show that renewable resources water, forests, topsoil, fisheries are under extreme pressure under our current practices, and their productivity is in decline. These resources are the basis for life on this planet, and their exploitation constitutes the primary source of livelihoods for most of the world's population. As human population doubles, and as we seek to improve the welfare of the three billion people who live on less than two dollars a day, pressure on these resources shall only increase.
Available at: http://www.iisd.org/natres/

Minerals Resource Forum. The Mineral Resources Forum (MRF) is an information resource for issues related to mining, minerals, metals and sustainable development. It seeks to engage a diverse set of users from governments, mining, mineral and metal companies and other concerned civil society institutions, and to promote an integrated, inter-disciplinary approach to mineral issues and policies. The MRF is designed to accommodate a broad and growing range of technical and socio-economic issues that arise during the life cycle of mineral resources, i.e. as resources are: discovered and explored; exploited, transformed and traded; and finally consumed, disposed of, or recycled. 
Available at: http://www.natural-resources.org/minerals/

National Resources Institute. NRI specializes in research, consultancy and education for the sustainable management of natural and human resources. It is unique in possessing a multi-disciplinary skill-base of social scientists, natural scientists, economists and technologists to address the complex issues of sustainable development of these resources. Much of the Institute’s work is aimed at poverty reduction, economic growth and food security. A major - though not exclusive - component of NRI's work is concerned with sustainable development in developing countries and those with economies in transition.
Available at: http://www.nri.org

Natural Resources WebLink. Monitors policy making at the UN, promote accountability of global decisions, educate and mobilize for global citizen participation, and advocate on vital issues of international peace and justice.
Available at: http://www.law.du.edu/naturalresources/weblinks/default.cfm

U.S. State Department. Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Available at: http://www.state.gov/g/oes/

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Division for Sustainable Development. The Natural Resources Forum is a quarterly journal of the United Nations, which has been published commercially since 1976. This is an unusual example of a long-standing partnership between the United Nations and a private company, currently Blackwell Publishing.  The Natural Resources Forum has widened its platform to support the quest for integrated sustainable development. It now mainly examines socio-economic, legal, environmental and policy aspects of natural resources use and management. Topics now also include sustainable agriculture, fisheries and forestry. The journal seeks to explore innovative approaches, that integrate social and political realities with economic and environmental priorities, thus providing choices among policy options available to decision-makers in developing countries. By highlighting forward looking -- sometimes controversial -- topics, such as the sharing of transboundary waters, demand management, the role of women, and issues related to national sovereignty, the Natural Resources Forum aims to offer relevant inputs to developing countries attempting to incorporate sustainable development into their national policy frameworks. 
Available at: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/publications/nat_res_forum.htm

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The organization has been the focal point within the United Nations for the integrated treatment of trade and development and related issues in the areas of investment, finance, technology, enterprise development and sustainable development.
Available at: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/StartPage.asp?intItemID=2068

United Nations Environment Programme. To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
Available at: http://www.unep.org/

An Inconvenient Truth : The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About it.
Al Gore. Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press, c2006. 325p.
Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, "An Inconvenient Truth" is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming.
QC981.8 .G56 G67 2006

Atlas for Marine Policy in Southeast Asian Seas.
Joseph Morgan. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1983. 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.
G2362 .S6 A7 1983

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.
REF G2862 .N6 A75 1992

Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements.
United Nations. 2002. 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.
REF K3496 .A35 A85 2002

BIISS Journal. Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies. Dacca : Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS). 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. 
DK859.5 .C485 2001

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. 
HD75.6 .S35 1992

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. 
UA832.8 .I21 2004 NO.69

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.
REF QC981.8 .G58 J643 2006

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.
HB195 .G72 2000 SSTR

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 or other primary commodities. This book explains the links between resource dependence conflict and then suggests ways for the international community to help reduce the risk of conflict in developing countries. Contributors consider the risks of corruption, secessionist movements, and rebel financing; the roles played by government, the development community and the country’s population.  Focusing on what the international community can do collectively, contributors propose an agenda for global action to diminish the likelihood of civil war and suggest practical approaches and policies that could be adopted — from financial and resource reporting procedures to commodity tracking systems and enforcement techniques, including sanctions, certification requirements, and aid conditionality. 
HC59.7 .N324 2003

Natural Resources, Governance, and Economic Growth in Africa.
Bokyeong Park and Kang-Kook Lee. Seoul : KIEP, c2005. 49p.
Is abundance in natural resources a blessing or a curse for economic development? Contrary to conventional thoughts, development economists have provided solid evidence that it has worked as a curse. This finding is called 'resource curse hypothesis'.  This paper explores this question and others.
HV460.5 .K5 2005

Passage to a Human World : the Dynamics of Creating Global Wealth.
Max Singer. New Brunswick (U.S.A.) : Transaction Publishers, 1989. 390p.
A thoughtful discussion of the trend toward worldwide affluence and of the trouble educated Americans have in recognizing it. Its broad thesis is that the human race, barring the possibility of destruction by collision with a meteor of asteroid size, is never going to suffer from lack of materials necessary to keep it on an onward and upward course. Singer begins by establishing some broad facts about the nature of wealth. The way to get rich, says Singer, is to learn. We are more productive than the people of Abraham Lincoln’s time because we know more. And what one person knows, another may copy. Singer's aim is to restore to populations of the future that preeminently human dimension of moral choice which so many of today's futuristic projections have stripped from them. 
HC59 .S5375 1989