This policy-focused, global and multidisciplinary security handbook on Facing Global Environmental Change addresses new security threats of the 21st century posed by climate change, desertification, water stress, population growth and urbanization.

The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally. Much of the information and knowledge that was created in this field during the year was the result of the findings of the Fourth - sessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which were disseminated on a large scale and reported extensively by the media. This was the result not only of a heightened interest on the part of the public on various aspects of climate change, but also because the IPCC itself proactively attempted to spread the findings of its AR4 to the public at large. The interest generated on the scientific realities of climate change was further enhanced by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and former Vice President of the US, Al Gore. By taking this decision in favour of a leader who has done a great deal to create awareness on c- mate change, and a body that assesses all scientific aspects of climate change and disseminates the result of its findings, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has clearly drawn the link between climate change and peace in the world.

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Contextualization of Global Environmental Change.- Introduction: Facing Global Environmental Change and Sectorialization of Security.- The International System, Great Powers, and Environmental Change since 1900.- The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Securing Interactions between Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being.- Securitization of Global Environmental Change.- Securitizing Global Environmental Change.- Natural Climatic Variations in the Holocene: Past Impacts on Cultural History, Human Welfare and Crisis.- Climate Change Impacts on the Environment and Civilization in the Near East.- Human Security, Climate Change and Small Islands.- Redefining Sustainability: A Policy Tool for Environmental Security and Desertification.- Societal Impacts of Desertification: Migration and Environmental Refugees?.- Desertification in Algeria: Policies and Measures for the Protection of Natural Resources.- Securitizing Water.- Changing Population Size and Distribution as a Security Concern.- Life on the Edge: Urban Social Vulnerability and Decentralized, Citizen-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Four Large Cities of the Pacific Rim.- Policy Dimensions of Human Security and Vulnerability Challenges. The Case of Urban India.- Securitization of Extreme Natural and Societal Outcomes.- Interactions between Conflict and Natural Hazards: Swords, Ploughshares, Earthquakes, Floods and Storms.- AIDS as a Human Security Challenge.- Conflict and HIV/AIDS: Quantitative Analysis.- Preparing for Low-Frequency, Extreme Natural Hazards: Contributing to Human Security by Enhancing 'Freedom from Hazard Impact'.- Environmental Refugees and Environmental Distress Migration as a Security Challenge for India and Bangladesh.- Environmental Scarcities and Civil Violence.- Linkages Between Sub-national and International Water Conflicts: The Eastern Nile Basin.- Extractive Industries and the Environmental Aspects of International Security.- Energy Security for the 21st Century.- Energy Security: Conceptualization of the International Energy Agency (IEA).- Scenarios of Energy Demand and Supply until 2100: Implications for Energy Security.- Projections of Fossil Energy Reserves and Supply until 2050 (2100): Implications for Longer-term Energy Supply Security.- Technical and Economic Potentials of Biomass until 2050: Regional Relevance for Energy Security.- Solar Energy on a Global Scale: Its Impact on Security.- Solar Energy as a Key for Power and Water in the Middle East and North Africa.- Energy Security in the Arab World.- Turkey: Energy Security and Central Asia: The Politics and Economics of the So-called Great Game.- Towards a Sustainable Energy System for Africa: An African Perspective on Energy Security.- Energy Security: Economic, Environmental, and Societal Opportunity for the North Potential of Renewables to Avoid Conflicts?.- Food Security for the 21st Century.- Food as a New Human and Livelihood Security Challenge.- Governance of Food Security in the 21st Century.- A Research Strategy to Secure Energy, Water, and Food via Developing Sustainable Land and Water Management in Turkey.- Livelihood and Health Security for the 21st Century.- Sustainable Livelihood Security. Evolution and Application.- Global Health Security: The WHO Response to Outbreaks Past and Future.- Health and Human Security in the 21st Century.- AIDS Challenge to Health Security in Africa: Politics in Africa and Case Study on Botswana.- Health and Poverty as Challenges for Human Security: Two Case Studies on Northern Vietnam and Bangladesh.- Water Security for the 21st Century.- Global Trade: Balancing Existing and Future Regional Water Resource Deficits.- Water Wars in India.- Sustainability of Environmental Regimes: The Mekong River Commission.- Water Scarcity and Political Wrangling: Security in the Euphrates and Tigris Basin.- Water Resources in the Arab World: A Case Study on Jordan.- 'New Security Thinking' in Israeli-Palestinian Water Relations.- Functional Water Cooperation in the Jordan River Basin: Spillover or Spillback for Political Security?.- Water and Food Security in the River Nile Basin: Perspectives of the Government and NGOs in Egypt.- Water and Food Security in the Nile River Basin: Perspectives of Governments and NGOs of Upstream Countries.- Water and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Concepts and their Implications for Effective Water Resource Management in the Southern African Region.- Water Security in the Senegal River Basin: Water Cooperation and Water Conflicts.- The Centrality of Water Regime Formation for Water Security in West Africa: An Analysis of the Volta Basin.- Success and Failure in International River Basin Management The Case of Southern Africa.- Can 'Integrated Water Resources Management' Silence Malthusian Concerns? The Case of Central Asia.- Environmental Security in Central Asia and the Caspian Region: Aral and Caspian Seas.- The Central Asian Water Regime as an Instrument for Crisis Prevention.- Water Resource Management for Improving Environmental Security and Rural Livelihoods in the Irrigated Amu Darya Lowlands.- Water Security in Times of Armed Conflicts.- Environmental Security Concepts and Debates.- Environmental Security Concepts Revisited During the First Three Phases (1983-2006).- Environmental Security: Academic and Policy Debates in North America.- The Debate on Ecological Security in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.- Linking Knowledge Systems for Socio-ecological Security.- Environmental Security in Northeast Asia.- Environmental Security in the Arab World.- In the Name of Security: In the Name of Peace Environmental Schizophrenia and the Security Discourse in Israel / Palestine.- Security and Environment and the Israel-Palestine Conflict.- Conceptualization and Debate on Environmental and Human Security in Palestine.- Environmental Scarcity, Insecurity and Conflict: The Cases of Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Burundi.- Environmental Security in Sub-Sahara Africa: Global and Regional Environmental Security Concepts and Debates Revisited.- The Brazilian Amazon in an Environmental Security and Social Conflict Framework.- Politics of Environment in the Caucasus Conflict Zone: From Nationalizing Politics to Conflict Resolution.- Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Contrasting Problems, Places, and Prospects.- Security at the Poles: The Arctic and Antarctic.- Human and Gender Security Concepts and Debates.- Human Security Concepts in Policy and S…