Beschreibung:
Antonio Marquina (Spain): Ph.D., Chair for International Security and Cooperation and Professor of international relations at Complutense University in Madrid (CUM) since 1985, founder and director of the Research Unit on Security and Cooperation (UNISCI) at CUM. He has been the director of 14 research projects on European, Mediterranean, North African and Caucasus security and on Spanish foreign and security policy. Since 2002 he is a member of the French Conseil Economique de la Défense. From 1996 to 1997 he was the first president of STRADEMED, a network of research institutes working on security, defence and development issues in the Mediterranean. .Hans Günter Brauch, Adj. Prof. (PD) at the Free University of Berlin, chairman of AFES-PRESS, senior fellow at UNU-EHS in Bonn and editor of this series; he publishes on security and environment issues.
In this volume security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers as well as climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean. They also analyse NATO's Mediterranean security dialogue and offer conceptualisations on security and perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The latter half of the book analyses environmental security and conflicts in the Mediterranean and environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkan wars and the Middle East conflict. It also examines factors of global environmental change: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food and urbanisation issues as well as natural disasters. Furthermore, it draws conceptual conclusions for a fourth phase of research on human and environmental security and peace as well as policy conclusions for cooperation and partnership in the Mediterranean in the 21st century.
Focus on six structural factors: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food security, urbanisation and pollution
National and International Conflicts and Efforts at Conflict Prevention with Relevance for the Mediterranean.- Conceptualising Security in the Post Cold War Period.- Security Challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean Region.- Conceptualising Environmental Security for the Mediterranean Region.- Environmental Consequences of Wars in the Mediterranean.- Population Growth as a Cause of Conflicts.- Climate Change as a Cause of Conflicts.- Desertification as a Cause of Conflicts.- Water Scarcity as a Cause of Conflicts, Food Shortages, Urbanisation and Pollution as Causes of Conflicts.- Conceptual and Empirical Results and Conclusions.
