Environmental peacemaking / edited by Ken Conca & Geoffrey D. Dabelko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conca, Ken

Dabelko, Geoffrey D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--International cooperation.

Environmental policy.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

xiv, 244 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2002]

Summary:

How can environmental co-operation be used to bolster regional peace? A large body of research suggests that environmental degradation may catalyze violent conflict. Environmental co-operation, in contrast, has gone almost unexplored as a means of peacemaking, even though it opens several effective channels: enhancing trust, establishing habits of co-operation, lengthening the time horizons of decisionmakers, forging co-operative trans-societal linkages, and creating shared regional norms and identities.

Contents:

The case for environmental peacemaking / Ken Conca

Environmental cooperation and regional peace: Baltic politics, programs, and prospects / Stacy D. VanDeveer

Environmental cooperation in South Asia / Ashok Swain

The promises and pitfalls of environmental peacemaking in the Aral Sea Basin / Erika Weinthal

Environmental cooperation for regional peace and security in Southern Africa / Larry A. Swatuk

Beyond reciprocity: governance and cooperation around the Caspian Sea / Douglas W. Blum

Water cooperation in the U.S.-Mexico border region / Pamela M. Doughman

The problems and possibilities of environmental peacemaking / Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801871921

080187193X

OCLC:

50520518