This book is based on a conference addressing the relationship between the environment and security in the post-Cold War world. It brings together scholars and practitioners from a variety of different disciplines and perspectives in an effort to both explore the complexities of the relationship between environmental variables and security conditions, and re-focus the debate within the environmental community. The book combines analytical frameworks and case study material with proposals for addressing environmental challenges and enhancing the security and welfare of peoples, states and regions.

ROBERT E. BEDESKI Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
ROBERT W. CHANDLER Senior Councillor, Atlantic Council of the United States
SIMON DALBY Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa
STEPHANIE L. EUBANKS Arms Control Policy Analyst, Office of Arms Control Implementation and Compliance, Government of the United States
MARY MARGARET EVANS Deputy Director, Arms Control, Implementation and Compliance Office, Government of the United States
JESSE H. HAMNER Doctoral Student, Department of Political Science, Emory University
STEVE LONERGAN Professor, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia
ELIZABETH L. MALONE Manager, Global Climate Change Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States
RICHARD A. MATTHEW Assistant Professor, International and Environmental Politics, University of California
J.W.MENTZ Treaty Manager, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Government of United States
STEVE RAYNER Chief Scientist, Global Climate Research Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, DC
GALINA SERGEN Graduate Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, DC
MICHAEL THOMPSON Social Anthropologist, Director, Musgrave Institute, London
AARON T. WOLF Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Overview; M.R.Lowi & B.R.Shaw PART ONE: DISCOURSES The Changing Nature of National Security; M.M.Evans, J.W.Mentz, R.W.Chandler & S.L.Eubanks Integrating Environmental Factors into Conventional Security; R.A.Matthew Security, Governance, and the Environment; S.Rayner & E.L.Malone Human Security, Environmental Security and Sustainable Development; S.Lonergan Geopolitics and Ecology: Rethinking the Contexts of Environmental Security; S.Dalby PART TWO: PRACTICES Integration on Non-Traditional Security Issues: A Preliminary Application to South Korea; R.E.Bedeski Trends in Transboundary Water Disputes and Dispute Resolution; A.T.Wolf & J.H.Hamner Water and Conflict in the Middle East and South Asia: Environment and Security Linkages; M.R.Lowi Perceptions of Risk and Security: The Aral Sea Basin; G .Sergen & E.L.Malone Not Seeing the People for the Population: A Cautionary Tale from the Himalaya; M.Thompson Index