Natural Resource Scarcity and Conflict in Small Island States?
Author : Jamie Faye Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental degradation
ISBN :
Author : Jamie Faye Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental degradation
ISBN :
Author : Shyam Nath
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781849290319
Small island states have a big problem - the environmental consequences of climate change. This text introduces and explains the key environmental policy challenges and suggested responses to them.
Author : John Laing Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9789811548840
The book provides fresh look at the issues of sustainable development, degradation of natural resources and vulnerability to climate change in Small Island developing states (SIDS). It documents the deteriorating state of SIDS and adaptation efforts made to address the impending crisis of unsustainable economic growth with international, national and community support. Authors have discussed issues like macroeconomic trends, vulnerability, resilience capability, and SIDS-specific strategies focusing on sectors like trade and tourism. Discussion continues with the examination of democracy, social capital, quality of life, and health concerns. Climate change and natural resource challenges are analyzed using case studies. The book also discusses diplomatic complexities of international climate agreements, collective action and institutional quality constitute the analysis of global environment and sustainable development.
Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN : 1843690446
Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher : UN
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
The 2012 UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Global Environmental Issues primarily identified emerging environmental issues and possible solutions on a global scale and perspective. In 2013, UNEP carried out a similar exercise to identify priority emerging environmental issues that are of concern to the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The social and economic emerging issues were also identified using the same set of criteria. At the core of the process was a SIDS Foresight Panel consisting of 11 SIDS experts (for the UNEP Panel) and 12 experts (for the UN DESA Panel) from the three SIDS regions, representing the global SIDS community and a wide range of disciplines. The process was designed to open the discussion on emerging environmental issues to a broad range of views both from the Foresight Panel and a wider community of relevant experts from across the globe. Through the Foresight Process, separate lists of 20 environmental and 15 socioeconomic emerging issues were identified and discussed in this report.
Author : Stefano Moncada
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 3030827747
This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The contributions, written by well-established scholars, as well as emerging authors and practitioners, in the field, include conceptual papers, coherent methodological approaches, and case studies from the communities based in the Caribbean Sea and the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. In their introduction, the editors contextualise the book within the current literature. They emphasise the importance of stronger links between climate change science and policy in SIDS, both to increase effectiveness of policy and also boost scholarly enquiry in the context of whose communities are often excluded by mainstream research. This book is timely and appropriate, given the recent commission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of a Special Report that aims at addressing vulnerabilities, “especially in islands and coastal areas, as well as the adaptation and policy development opportunities” following the Paris Agreement. Coupled with this, there is also the need to support the policy community with further scientific evidence on climate change–related issues in SIDS, accompanying the first years of implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Author : Šárka Waisová
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498528422
Environmentalists and advocates of environmental cooperation in conflict frequently discuss certain environmental cooperation project proposals such as the establishment of the Peace Park in the demilitarized zone on the North-South Korean border, the Indo-Pakistani Peace Park on the Siachen Glacier, the joint system of trans-boundary environmental protection between Thailand and Cambodia, and the joint management of Palestinian and Israeli water resources. These proposals, however, are by no means isolated. The idea that the development of environmental cooperation in conflict areas can create a bridge between conflict communities and help conflict transformation and resolution is almost two decades old. Declarations of cooperation between conflict communities and bringing the potential for peaceful relationships into conflict areas through joint environmental projects appear in the agendas of several international governmental and non-governmental organizations. However, our knowledge of the “real” workings of environmental cooperation in conflict zones does not correspond with the popularity of these thoughts and actions. Although environmental cooperation has been initiated in many conflict areas, the differences in individual cases are so large that, so far, there is neither accurate data nor any idea of the workings of environmental cooperation as a tool for conflict transformation. This book addresses some of these issues and offers several new findings. Specifically, it examines the emergence of environmental cooperation and its function in political conflicts. It concludes that not all environmental cooperation is real cooperation and not all real cooperation is favorable. The scope, form, and content of cooperation are important to the peacebuilding potential of environmental cooperation, and there are multiple intervening factors such as motivation of actors, their value preferences, and duration of the support of external actors.
Author : Michael B. Gerrard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107025761
This book addresses legal issues of rising seas endangering the habitability and existence of island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789280727029
This report presents the findings of the Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment of Sudan and provides detailed recommendations for follow-up action. The sectors investigated include natural disasters and desertification, linkages between conflict and environment, the impacts of population displacement, urban environment and environmental health, industry, agriculture, forest resources, freshwater resources, wildlife and protected areas, marine environments, environmental governance and international aid.--Publisher's description.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN :