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Global Resources and International Conflict by Arthur H Westing
This volume examines the extent to which global deficiencies and degradation of natural resources, coupled with their uneven distribution, can lead to unlikely alliances, national rivalries, and even war. The study evaluates the influence of such factors as geographical distribution, availability, scarcity, and depletion of the world's natural resources--including oil, natural gas, minerals, fresh water, ocean fisheries, and food crops--on strategic and military policy-making. Westing also studies the effect of differential population growth on the actual and perceived availability of resources and presents an expanded, environmentally based view of international security.
'This book is a useful collection of papers giving detailed information on more recent international (and some intranational) conflicts over resources' Third World Quarterly
`This book is a useful collection of papers giving detailed information on more recent international (and some intranational) conflict over resources.' Third World Quarterly
'the articles are on the whole perceptive, reasonably tight, and short, and they appear to be reliable surveys of the fields they investigate' Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University, Conservation Biiology
'Written by 10 prestigious and knowledgeable authorities, this compilation of 10 excellent papers furnishes a broad overview of environmental factors in strategic policy and action ... should be in the hands of national leaders concerned with the preservation of peace.' Ricardo C. Galang, International Journal on World Peace
`This book is a useful collection of papers giving detailed information on more recent international (and some intranational) conflict over resources.' Third World Quarterly
'the articles are on the whole perceptive, reasonably tight, and short, and they appear to be reliable surveys of the fields they investigate' Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University, Conservation Biiology
'Written by 10 prestigious and knowledgeable authorities, this compilation of 10 excellent papers furnishes a broad overview of environmental factors in strategic policy and action ... should be in the hands of national leaders concerned with the preservation of peace.' Ricardo C. Galang, International Journal on World Peace
Arthur H. Westing USA): Ph.D. (Yale), UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honour (1990); Fellow, AAAS, member of steering group of its Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering, heads Westing Associates in Environment, Security & Education; former Professor of Ecology and Dean of Natural Science at Hampshire College. He was a research forester with the US Forest Service, taught forestry, ecology, and conservation at various colleges and uni-versities, was a senior researcher at SIPRI and PRIO where he directed the UNEP project on 'Peace, Security, and the Environment'. He has been a Consultant in Environmental Security to the World Bank, UNEP, UNIDIR, and UNESCO, to the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the Government of Eritrea. He is a member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas, Vice-President of the International Society of Naturalists (INSONA), and member or advisor to other international environmental non-governmental organizations and scholarly journals.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198291046 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198291043 |
| Title | Global Resources and International Conflict |
| Author | Arthur H Westing |
| Series | Sipri Monographs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1986-06-26 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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