Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS) e.V.
PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Alte Bergsteige 47, 74821 Mosbach, Germany, 3 March 2008
( 49-6261-12912 2 49-6261-15695 : afes @ afes-press.de ≤ http://www.afes-press.de
I would like to draw your attention to a new major book co-edited by:
Comments on this new book on global environmental change and water issues :
Stavros Dimas, Commissioner for the Environment, European Union:
Globalisation and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualising Security in the 21 st Century – sums up many of the dilemmas and challenges facing policy-makers today. …. Since the end of the Cold War, the security debate has changed fundamentally. A study which addresses the new challenges and suggests responses will therefore be a welcome addition to the policy-maker’s toolkit. For this reason, I warmly welcome this volume.
Professor Hans van Ginkel, former Rector of the United Nations University 1997-2007):
“This unique compilation of global scholarship deserves many readers and should be available in all major university and research libraries in all parts of the world and for all scholars also on the Internet.”
Professor Klaus Töpfer, former Executive Director, UNEP (1997-2006):
“This book deserves many readers in all parts of the world, especially in those countries where university and research libraries may not be able to afford such references books. It is hoped that these scientific and policy-relevant messages can again be made available with the support of private foundations and donors to the young generation in the global South that will ex–perience many of these challenges to their security and survival during this century.”
Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and concerns. In this comprehensive new work on global security thinking, 92 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the worldwide reassessment of the meaning of security triggered by the end of the Cold War and globalization, as well as the multifarious impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century.
Chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security. They analyze the relationship between security, peace, development and environ–ment. The authors move on to review the rethinking of security in international law, econo–mics and political science, as well as in the key political, military and economic milieus.
The book also examines the environmental security dimension and the adaptation of the institutional security concepts of the UN, EU and NATO, and analyzes the effect of change on regional security. Finally, it posits alternative security futures and draws conclusions for future research and action.
Written for: Scientists, researchers; libraries, international organisations, institutes (social and political sciences, philosophy, environmental sciences, geography, climatology, geosciences, economics, law, sociology, education, military academies)
Keywords: water, climate change; environment; global environmental change; globalization; political concepts, security, peace, development
With Forewords by Stavros Dimas, Commissioner for the Environment, European Union; Professor Hans van Ginkel, former Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary General of the UN (1997-2007); Professor Klaus Töpfer, former Executive Director, UNEP and Under-Secretary General of the UN (1997-2006).
With Preface Essays by Ambassador Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D. C.; Professor Úrsula Oswald Spring, former Envi–ron–ment Minister, More–los, Mexico; Dr. Vandana Shiva, Alternative Nobel Prize, New Delhi, India; Dr. Narcis Serra, former Vice President of the Government and former Defence Minister of Spain.
The nine co-editors are:
Hans Günter Brauch, PD (Adj. Prof.) at the Free University of Berlin, chairman of AFES-PRESS, fellow at UNU-EHS in Bonn and editor of this series; he publishes on security and environment issues.
Úrsula Oswald Spring, Professor at National University, Mexi–co; UNU-EHS chair on social vulnerability; she writes on sustainability, de–ve–lopment, gender, disaster, poverty and colla–borates with peasants.
Czeslaw Mesjasz , Assoc. Professor, Vice Dean, Manage–ment, Cracow University of Economics; publishes on sy–stems and game theory, conflict resolution, negotiation, economics, finance, security.
John Grin , Professor, Director of the Amsterdam School for Social science Research; publishes on societal transformations in water management, agriculture and health care, and advices practitioners.
Pál Dunay is faculty member, Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He was senior researcher at SIPRI (2004-2007) and director of the Hunga–rian Institute of International Affairs in 2007.
Navnita Chadha Behera (New Delhi), Professor at the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia; she publishes on Kashmir and South Asian security issues.
Béchir Chourou teaches International Relations at the University of Tunis-Carthage in Tunisia and publishes on Euro-Mediterranean relations, food policy and human security in the Arab world.
Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Nairobi, Chair, Depart-ment of Private Law; Programme Director, International Environmental Law Research Centre, Nairobi.
P. H. Liotta is Professor of Humanities and Executive Director of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island.
Details you find at: < http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexagon_03.htm> where there is information on book announcements and internet book stores that globally carry this major new book at: < http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexagon_03_announcements.htm <http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexagon_03_announcements.htm> > and a documentation on book presentations and press conferences at: < http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexagon_03_PressConf_Presentations.htm>.
A list of contents is at: < http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_down–loaddocument/9783540759768-t1.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-495072-p173775913>.
The introductory chapter is at: < http://www.springer.com/cda/content/do–cument/cda_ <http://www.springer.com/cda/content/do%1fcument/cda_> down–load–document/9783540759768-c1.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-494882-p173775913>.
An order form is at: < http://www.afes-press-books.de/pdf/Hexagon_3/Hexagon%20III_Glo-ba–lization.pdf <http://www.afes-press-books.de/pdf/Hexagon_3/Hexagon%20III_Glo-ba%1flization.pdf> >.
All 75 book chapters are individually available at Springerlink, at: < http://springer–link.com/con–tent/x33671/?p=7450fc3b70e8490f907643b3c87da4d7&pi=0>. The backmatter (list of abbreviations, integrated bibliography, biographies) is available free of charge at: <http://springerlink.com/content/x33671/back-matter.pdf>.
For additional background information and also a link to the website of the publisher go to: < http://www.springer.com/law/environmental/book/978-3-540-75976-8 >.
The book has been published as the third volume of the peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP). For details on this scientific book series go to: <http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexagon.htm> and to the website of the publisher at: <http://www.springer.com/series/8090>.
With kind regards
Hans Guenter Brauch,
AFES-PRESS Chairman
Free University of Berlin
Fellow, UNU-EHS, Germany
