Overview

This comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food, water and health insecurities, resulting in population migration. Chapters cover how these contribute globally to societal insecurity and violent conflict in a growing number of regions. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, the Handbook is divided into thematic sections, examining first the effects of environmental scarcity on security at a macro level before delving into region-specific issues and challenges. The final section investigates the actors, institutions and processes engaged with environmental security, discussing the shifting international political discourse and how this is challenging the conservative military security paradigm. The combination of comparative global analysis alongside regionally focused studies makes this Handbook an invaluable resource for all scholars and students of environment and climate security. It will also be of interest to policy professionals working on issues of environmental scarcity and new security challenges.

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Author:   Ashok Swain ,  Joakim Öjendal ,  Anders Jägerskog
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781789900651

ISBN 10:   1789900654
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   21 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface and acknowledgements xiv PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: security and the environment – the link 2 Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal and Anders Jägerskog PART II MACRO PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 2 Scarcity, abundance and migration: the future of environmental security 14 James R. Lee 3 Global climate change and security threats 26 Simon Dalby 4 Global water crises and challenges for water security 40 Larry A. Swatuk 5 Climate change and (in)security in transboundary river basins 62 David Michel, Mats Eriksson and Martina Klimes 6 Revisiting freshwater abundance within the peace and conflict discourse 76 Adan E. Suazo PART III MICRO PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 7 Environment and security in West Africa: response of the international community and the complexity on the ground 88 Mats Hårsmar 8 Mining, environmental changes and human security in South Africa 103 Sethulego Matebesi 9 Green impunity: measuring ecojustice, institutional capacities and policy design as an approach to environmental security 115 Celeste Cedillo and Juan Antonio Le Clercq 10 Climate change and security threats in Southeast Asia 132 Elliot Brennan 11 Cases and implications of environmental insecurity in Southeast Asia 149 Mely Caballero-Anthony and Margareth Sembiring 12 Environment and energy in Central Asia: challenges and prospects 162 Vakur Sümer, Dauren Aben and Zhengizkhan Zhanaltay 13 Water and environmental security in China 176 Zhijian Wang and Samuel Smith 14 Environment and security in India: a hyphenated discourse 192 Jayati Srivastava 15 Nepal: reflections on the environmental and human security debate 212 Bishnu Raj Upreti 16 Security and environment in the Middle East 228 Nadim Farajalla, Elie Dib, Olivia Macharis and Emil Kaston PART IV ACTORS AND PROCESSES ENGAGED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 17 Climate change and the environment at the UN Security Council: towards a comprehensive approach 241 Martin Wall and Janani Vivekananda 18 Understanding and framing scarcity, sustainability and security: why and how to use the complexity lens 257 Shafiqul Islam and Enamul Choudhury 19 The environment of lasting peace: natural resources and climate change in peace negotiations 273 Barbara Magalhaes Teixeira 20 Bribery, corruption, geopolitics and investigation 290 Mark Nuttall 21 Renewable energy, security and environment 307 Huiyi Chen 22 Displaced populations, food security and frontier agriculture 320 Dorte Verner and Edinaldo Tebaldi Index

Reviews

'The Handbook of Security and the Environment offers a unique perspective on the intersection between the traditional notions of security and emerging concepts of environmental security. It effectively captures the contemporary knowledge base on environmental security and advances it considerably by exploring pragmatic and actionable steps that can enhance the prospects of enduring global peace. The nuanced analysis captures different geographical contexts and international actors, and unpacks innovations in securing environmental resources - notably food, water and energy - against global impacts of climate change, excessive resource exploitation, mass migration, volatility in food prices, and spiking water scarcity.' -- Zafar Adeel, Simon Fraser University, Canada

'Swain, OEjendal and Jagerskog's important Handbook brings new debates, new voices and new cases to the growing research literature on environment and security links and threats to human security at local, national, regional and global scale.' -- Stacy D. VanDeveer, University of Massachusetts, US 'The editors rightly shine a spotlight on the human security dimensions of environment and security links in this Handbook. This more inclusive approach provides a more complete picture of the multi-layered complexity of connections, avoiding the reductionism that afflicts some treatments of these topics. This Handbook reaches beyond the usual suspects to provide in-depth analysis in a wide range of country level and issue specific chapters.' -- Geoffrey Dabelko, Ohio University, US 'The Handbook of Security and the Environment offers a unique perspective on the intersection between the traditional notions of security and emerging concepts of environmental security. It effectively captures the contemporary knowledge base on environmental security and advances it considerably by exploring pragmatic and actionable steps that can enhance the prospects of enduring global peace. The nuanced analysis captures different geographical contexts and international actors, and unpacks innovations in securing environmental resources - notably food, water and energy - against global impacts of climate change, excessive resource exploitation, mass migration, volatility in food prices, and spiking water scarcity.' -- Zafar Adeel, Simon Fraser University, Canada

'The editors rightly shine a spotlight on the human security dimensions of environment and security links in this Handbook. This more inclusive approach provides a more complete picture of the multi-layered complexity of connections, avoiding the reductionism that afflicts some treatments of these topics. This Handbook reaches beyond the usual suspects to provide in-depth analysis in a wide range of country level and issue specific chapters.' -- Geoffrey Dabelko, Ohio University, US 'The Handbook of Security and the Environment offers a unique perspective on the intersection between the traditional notions of security and emerging concepts of environmental security. It effectively captures the contemporary knowledge base on environmental security and advances it considerably by exploring pragmatic and actionable steps that can enhance the prospects of enduring global peace. The nuanced analysis captures different geographical contexts and international actors, and unpacks innovations in securing environmental resources - notably food, water and energy - against global impacts of climate change, excessive resource exploitation, mass migration, volatility in food prices, and spiking water scarcity.' -- Zafar Adeel, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Author Information

Edited by Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Joakim Öjendal, Professor of Peace and Development Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden and Anders Jägerskog, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, The World Bank, Washington DC, US

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