The Environment-Conflict Nexus Climate Change and the Emergent National Security Landscape /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Galgano, Francis (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Advances in Military Geosciences,
• Subjects: Climate change.; Peace.; Political science.; Environmental monitoring.; Security, International.; Climate Change.; Conflict Studies.; Governance and Government.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.; International Security Studies.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate how environmental factors have caused an evolution in the landscape of national security since the end of the Cold War. Through relevant case studies, the scope of the problem on the national security landscape due to environmental stressors is illuminated, exa...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Environment-Conflict Nexus
• Chapter 2. States at Risk: The Environment-Conflict Model
• Chapter 3. Defining Climate Change: What to Expect in a Warmer World
• Chapter 4. Abrupt Climate Change
• Chapter 5. Water in the Middle East
• Chapter 6. Water, Land, and Governance: Environmental Security in Dense Urban Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Chapter 7. When Politics, the Environment, and Advocacy Compete-Environmental Security in the South China Sea
• Chapter 8. East Africa in World War I: A Geographic Analysis
• Chapter 9. Conflict in the Horn of Africa: The Ogaden War of 1977
• Chapter 10. The 1994 Rwandan Genocide
• Chapter 11. Climate and the Syrian Civil War.