Book of the year reviews

The Newropeans Democracy Gazette N° 33/40, 27 June 2003, Paris, France,
The Newropeans Democracy Gazette is delivered freely to 30,000 recipients (universities, local authorities, companies, NGOs, parliaments and governments). (text)

UE-PECO press review, 20 June 2003, Paris, France (text)

WaterL-List, 18 June 2003, IISD, U.SA/Canada (text)

Climate- L-List, 18 June 2003:

I would like to draw your attention to a new major book on: Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict edited by H.G. Brauch - P.H. Liotta - A. Marquina - P. Rogers - M. Selim that has been published in June 2003 by Springer Publishers in: Berlin - Heidelberg - New York - Hong Kong - London - Milan - Paris - Tokyo.

Details (with a list of content, the forewords and sample pages) you find at:
< http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year.html >.
For important background information and also a direct link to the website of the publisher go to: < http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-40107-5 >.

The book has two forewords by the Secretary General of NATO, the Hon. Lord Robertson, and by the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, the Hon. Amre Moussa as well as four prefaces by the Hon. Kamel S. Abu Jaber (Jordan), Sir Crispin Tickell (UK), Ambassador Jonathan Dean (USA), and Prof. El Sayed Yassin (Egypt).

From the contents (2 forewords, 4 prefaces, 52 chapters in 14 parts):

Introduction: Security and Environment Linkages, Conflicts in the Mediterranean (1945-2001) and Conflict Prevention - Security Dialogue and Concepts: NATO's Mediterranean Security Dialogue and Security Concept of the European Union - Conceptualising Security in the Post-Cold War Period in the North and in the South - Security Challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean Region - Security for the Mediterranean Region, Environmental Consequences of Wars in the Mediterranean (1940-2000) - Population Growth and Climate Change in the Mediterranean - Desertification in the Mediterranean and MENA Region - Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean and MENA Region - Food and Urbanisation in the Mediterranean and MENA Region - Outcome of Environmental Stress: From Natural Disasters to Disaster Prevention - Empirical and Theoretical Results and Conceptual Conclusions - Appendix: abbreviations, bibliography, on the contributors, index
Security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers, 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, analyse NATO's Mediterranean security dialogue, offer conceptualisations of security and perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The latter half analyses environmental security and conflicts in the Mediterranean and environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkans wars and the Middle East conflict and examines factors of global environmental change: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food and urbanisation issues as well as natural disasters. 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.

The book has been published as the first volume of the new scientific Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP), as well as volume 16 of the Collection STRADEMED (Strategy and development in the Mediterranean).

Environmental Journalists, 18 August 2003 [Text]

Dear environmental journalists

The Mediterranean and many parts of Europe experience presently one of the hottest summers for decades with temperatures that broke all previously measured record highs. As a consequence, a severe drought has already seriously damaged the agricultural production in many Mediterranean and European countries. Forest fires have damaged huge areas in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, in the Balkans but also in Germany. The hydro-meteorological hazards of this summer in the Mediterranean were instrumental that nuclear reactors had to slow down their operations, and for the Europen Union to stop cereal exports what may contribute to an increase in cereal prices and of the national debt in countries in North Africa and the Middle East that rely on imports. The events of this summer point to key non-military environmental challenges that are in the centre of a new book on:

Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict edited by H.G. Brauch - P.H. Liotta - A. Marquina - P. Rogers - M. Selim that has been published in early August 2003 by Springer Publishers in New York, and previously in June by Springer-Verlag in Berlin.

Details (with a list of content, the forewords and sample pages, information on review copies) at:
< http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year.html >.

For a list of internet bookstores that carry the book please go to: <http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year_reviews.html >

For order information by the publisher in the United States, North and South America go to: http://www.springer-ny.com/detail.tpl?isbn=3540401075.

For order information by the publisher for the rest of the world go to: <http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-40107-5 >.

The book has one chapter on the topical issue of forest fires by Johann G. Goldammer on: International Cooperation in Managing Forest Fire Disasters in the Mediterranean Region". Prof. Goldammer is head of the Fire Ecology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Professor for Fire Ecology at Freiburg University, and head of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC). For the United Nations he is serving as the leader of the FAO/ECE/ILO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire and member of the Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction, UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). He is also serving as coordinator of the Working Group Wildland Fire of ISDR.

A chapter by Hans Günter Brauch on: "Natural Disasters in the Mediterranean (1900-2001): From Disaster Response to Disaster Preparedness" offers a comprehensive statistical survey of all major natural hazards and disasters in the Mediterranean and its four sub-regions: Southern Europe, South-eastern Europe, North Africa and the Easterm Mediterranean, as well as of the institutional efforts to cope with these hazards.

From the contents (2 forewords, 4 prefaces, 52 chapters in 14 parts):

The book has been published as the first volume of the new scientific Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP), as well as volume 16 of the Collection STRADEMED (Strategy and development in the Mediterranean).

Recent speeches by Hans Günter Brauch on Mediterranean environmental issues (climate change, disasters etc.) may be downloaded at: http://www.afes-press.de/html/download_hgb.html

21st Century Security and Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean Region

While the world remains focused on international terrorism, other challenges to human development have managed to slowly mushroom into potential threats. A new book on some of the environmental challenges in the Mediterranean region explores how these potential hazards have an adverse effect on security concerns if left unchecked... More>>
Firas Al-Atraqchi (Canadian Journalist)

Fifo Ost, 11 September 2003

The Chairman of the former UNEP Balkans Task Force, of the UNEP Afghanistan Task Force and of the UNEP Desk Study on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the former Finnish Minister on the Environment and Development, Mr. Pekka Haavisto, has recently analysed the work of the UNEP Post Conflict Assessment Unit in the Balkans in a new book chapter on: "Environmental Post-Conflict Assessments: A New UN Tool developed by UNEP" that deals with oil leakages and chemical risks related to the Kosovo Conflict, with Depleted Uranium in the Balkans and refugees and the environment in Macedonia and Albania.

Details on this new book that was written by 55 authors from 22 countries and that has forewords by the Secretary Generals of NATO and the Arab League are at: www.afes-press.de; a list of contents with the chapter 30 of Mr. Haavisto is available at: www.springer.de. The book may be ordered from any good bookstore are directly with the publisher at: www.springer.de and a list of the internet bookstore is at: www.afes-press.de

Linkages Update - 26 July 2003

SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
(Springer Publishers, Berlin, 2003). Fifty authors from 22 countries contributed to this new book, Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualizing Security and Environmental Conflict, offering readers a wide range of security and environment linkages from perspectives and disciplines of the natural and social sciences. The book has five chapters on water issues in the Mediterranean and Middle East, as well as two additional chapters that discuss the role of water scarcity, cooperation and conflict in the framework of the first three phases of a social science research on environmental security, and the role of water in a fourth research phase on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP). More.

Newsletter TIESWeb No 42, 26 June 2003

5. Announcement : Security and Environment in the Mediterranean

In a new book on "Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict" edited by H.G. Brauch, the linkages between environment and security have been analysed and security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean reviewed: NATO's Mediterranean security dialogue, perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The second half analyses environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkans wars and the Middle East conflict. It draws conceptual conclusions for cooperation and partnership in the Mediterranean in the 21st century.
The book was written by 55 authors from 22 countries.
Details at: http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year.html

Sen-Capability

New book series on human and environmental security and peace (15 August 2003)

I would like to inform you about a new North-South collaborative book that has just been published in August 2003 by Springer Publishers in New York on:
Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict edited by H.G. Brauch (Germany)?- P.H. Liotta (USA)- A. Marquina (Spain) - P. Rogers (UK) - M. Selim (Egypt),

as the first volume of the Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP).

Details (with a list of content, the forewords and sample pages) you find at:
< http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year.html >.

For a list of internet bookstores that carry the book please go to:
<http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year_reviews.html >

Only Amazon in the UK offers a 30% discount.

From the contents (2 forewords, 4 prefaces, 52 chapters in 14 parts):

Recent speeches by Hans Günter Brauch on environmental security issues (climate change, disasters etc.) may be downloaded at: http://www.afes-press.de/html/download_hgb.html.

The Newropeans Democracy Gazette N° 33/40, 27 June 2003

(The Newropeans Democracy Gazette is delivered freely to 30,000 recipients (universities, local authorities, companies, NGOs, parliaments and governments)

Book : "Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict"
In a new book edited by H.G. Brauch and AFES, the linkages between environment and security have been analysed and security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean reviewed: NATO's Mediterranean security dialogue, perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The second half analyses environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkans wars and the Middle East conflict. It draws conceptual conclusions for cooperation and partnership in the Mediterranean in the 21st century.
The book was written by 55 authors from 22 countries.
Details at: http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year.html

UE-PECO press review, 20 June 2003:

9. Security and Environment in the Mediterranean In a new book on "Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict" edited by H.G. Brauch, the linkages between environment and security have been analysed
and security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean reviewed: NATO's Mediterranean security dialogue, perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The second half analyses environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkans
wars and the Middle East conflict. It draws conceptual conclusions for cooperation and partnership in the Mediterranean in the 21st century.The book was written by 55 authors from 22 countries.
Afes Press http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year.html

WaterL-List, 18une 2003:

I would like to draw your attention to a new major book on: Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict edited by H.G. Brauch - P.H. Liotta - A. Marquina - P. Rogers - M. Selim that has been published in June by Springer Publishers in Berlin - Heidelberg - New York - Hong Kong - London - Milan - Paris - Tokyo . The book has 1162 pages, 177 illus., is in hardcover and has an index.

Details (with contents, forewords and sample pages) you find at:
< http://www.afes-press.de/html/bk_book_of_year.htm >.
with important background information and a direct link to the website of the publisher at: <http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-40107-5 >.
The book has two forewords by the Secretary General of NATO, the Hon. Lord Robertson, and by the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, the Hon. Amre Moussa as well as four prefaces by the Hon. Kamel S. Abu Jaber (Jordan), Sir Crispin Tickell (UK), Ambassador Jonathan Dean (USA), and Prof. El Sayed Yassin (Egypt).

The book has five original chapters on water issues in the Mediterranean and Middle East by:

Anthony Allan: Water Security in the Middle East and the Mediterranean
Branko Bošnjakovic: Shared Ground Water Resource Management and Protection in the Mediterranean A Joint Approach by United Nations Agencies
Ines Dombrowsky: Water Accords in the Middle East Peace Process: Moving towards Cooperation?
Waltina Scheumann: The Euphrates Issue in Turkish-Syrian Relations
Henrike Peichert: The Nile Basin Initiative: A Catalyst for Cooperation

Two additional chapters by Hans Günter Brauch discuss the role of water scarcity, water cooperation and conflicts in the framework of the first three phases of the social science research on environmental security and the role of water in a fourth research phase on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP).

In this book 55 authors from 22 countries from Europe (Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, UK), North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia), Asia (China, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Turkey) and North America (U.S.A and Mexico) focus on a wide range of security and environment linkages from perspectives and disciplines of the natural and social sciences.

From the contents (2 forewords, 4 prefaces, 52 chapters in 14 parts):

Security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers, 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, analyse NATO's Mediterranean security dialogue, offer conceptualisations of security and perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The latter half analyses environmental security and conflicts in the Mediterranean and environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkans wars and the Middle East conflict and examines factors of global environmental change: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food and urbanisation issues as well as natural disasters. 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.

The book has been published as the first volume of the new scientific Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP), as well as volume 16 of the Collection STRADEMED (Strategy and development in the Mediterranean).

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