Research Catalog

Title

Energy and environmental challenges to security / edited by Stephen Stec, Besnik Baraj.

Author

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security (2007 : Budapest, Hungary)

Publication

Dordrecht : Springer : In cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Stec, Stephen.
• Baraj, Besnik.

Description

xxiv, 455 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

The thirst for energy and the need to manage environmental impacts arising from the carbon economy are urgent issues facing this and future generations. The environment and security nexus provide an essential perspective for meeting energy and other challenges to security arising from climate change, conflicts, and economic transition. As Norman Myers succinctly pointed out, wars have already been fought over water and energy; and deforestation, soil erosion, desertification, over-fishing, and a host of other environmental problems are linked with conflict everywhere. Yet the capacity of humans to reach across boundaries and cooperate on the environment also gives us hope that solutions to environment and security problems can be found. This volume presents the outcome of a unique meeting that took place in November 2007 in the Hungarian Parliament, when scientists from NATO member and partner countries met with members of parliament from two committees of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Penetrating contributions in this volume address an array of issues integral to energy, the environment and security, including environmental refugees, the viability of nuclear power, the biofuels misstep, and geopolitical aspects of global energy security, among others - issues that will be with us for many years to come.

Series Statement

• NATO science for peace and security series. Series C, Environmental security, 1874-6519
• NATO science for peace and security series. Series C, environmental security

Uniform Title

• NATO science for peace and security series. Series C, environmental security.
• NATO science for peace and security series. Series C, Environmental security.
• NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security

Subject

• Energy industries > Security measures > Congresses
• Energy policy > Congresses
• Environmental policy > Congresses
• National security > Congresses
• Environmental sciences
• Climatic changes
• Environmental management
• Economic policy
• Political science
• Environment
• Environmental Management
• Climate Change
• Economic Policy
• Political Science
• Environment, general

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security, Budapest, Hungary, 21-23 November 2007"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction ixNotes on Contributors xviiEnergy Security for the Euro-Atlantic Region 1Mario Tagarinski and Andrius AviziusEnvironment, Security, and Development Challengesin the 21st Century 33Ben SlayKEY NOTE ADDRESSEnvironmental Security Concerns: Sources 41Norman MyersPOST-CONFLICT ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGESPost-Conflict Environmental Health Risk: the Role of RiskAnalysis in Foreign Policy 57Chad M. BriggsA Treaty for a Southeast European Energy Community 73Andjelka MihajlovNatural Resources Management in the Absence of the Ruleof Law: a Case Study from Bosnia and Herzegovina 79Lisa TilneyKosovo-Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security 93Nezakete HakajTRANSBOUNDARY ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGESMultinational Approaches: A Tool for the Preventionand Reduction of the Risks of Nuclear Energy 107Anton KhlopkovVThe Security-Environment Nexus along the Czech-Austrian Border:Theory, Spatiality and Perception 117Nikola Hynek and Alois HynekRegional Security and International Legal Regulationof Water Protection and Use -- the Case of Serbia 141Dragoljub Todic and Vid VukasovicTHE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY CHALLENGESInternational Organizations' Co-operation AroundEnvironment and Security 159Fiona BorthwickCountering Threats to Environmental Security: The Role of NATO 185James McQuaid and Arpad VinczeTRANSATLANTIC ENERGY SECURITYDependence on Middle East Energy and Its Impacton Global Security 197Gal LuftBulgarian Energetics Management and Environmental Security 211Plamen GramatikovSecurity concerns in the Middle East for Oil Supply:Problems and Solutions 225Khaled MarafiEnergy Security and the Environment in Eastern Europe:The Case Study of Ukraine 237Dan Milstein and Aleh CherpEcologically Friendly Utilization of Coal ProcessingWaste as a Secondary Energy Source 251Sergey Boruk and Igor WinklerModern Technologies in New Lignite Power Plants in Kosovoand Their Impact on Energy and Environmental Security 261Ibrahim KrasniqiCLIMATE CHANGECan Energy Technologies provide Energy Securityand Climate Change Mitigation? 283Ralph E. H. SimsKyoto and Beyond: Can Europe and the United StatesFind Common Ground on Meeting the Challenge? 307Ambassador April H. FoleyScenarios of Environmental Change and Migration 313Andras VagSecurity of the Energy Sector in Albaniain the Face of Climate Change 331Ermira Fida, Besim Islami, Eglantina D. Bruci,Besnik Baraj, Mirela Kamheri, Liri Mucaj and Miriam B. NdiniSmall Hydropower Resources and Prospects of SmallHydropower Electric Plants in the Near-Border Regions of Ukraine 371Igor WinklerThe Risks of Using Renewable Energies 379Bela RabiENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCEStochastic Simulation as an Instrument for TechnologicalSystems Environmental Performance 391Lyudmyla ZahvoyskaIntegrated Management and Environmental Clean-up of Contaminated Areas Around the Industrial Areasof Elbasani in Albania 403Fatbardh Sallaku, Tota Odeta and Huqi BujarEnvironmental Risk Assessment of a Textile Factory in Turkey 415Meral Mungan and Ulku YetisANNEXESAgenda of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on"Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security" List of Abbreviations Full List of Participants Addresses of Contributors Subject Index.

ISBN

• 9781402094514 (hbk.)
• 1402094515 (hbk.)
• 1402094523 (pbk.)
• 9781402094521 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008942033

OCLC

• 271772933
• SCSB-12492632

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library