Environmental Change and Security

List of Figures and Tables.- List of Authors.- Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Opening Address.- A: The Environment and Security Nexus.- Environment and Security in International Politics — An Introduction.- Environment and Security in the Context of the NATO/CCMS.- Environmental Conflict Research — Paradigms and Perspectives.- The Role of Environmental Policy in Peace and Conflict Research.- Environment and Security: The Demographic Dimension.- B: Characterization and Taxonomies.- Environmental Degradation in the South as a Cause of Armed Conflict.- Syndromes of Global Change: A Taxonomy for Peace and Conflict Research.- Conflict Research and Environmental Conflicts: Methodological Problems.- C: Modeling.- Environmentally-Induced Conflict — Methodological Notes.- Modeling Environmental Conflict.- Environmental Conflict and Sustainable Development: A Conflict Model and its Application to Climate and Energy Policy.- D: Foreign and Security Policy Approaches.- The Foreign Policy Dimension of Environmentally-Induced Conflicts.- Environmental Threats and International Security — The Action Potential for NATO.- E: Environment and Development Policy Approaches.- Preventing Environmentally-Induced Conflicts Through Development Policy and International Environmental Policy.- Development Cooperation as an Instrument of Crisis Prevention.- Should Security Policy Lay a New Foundation for Determining International Environmental Policy?.- Environment and Security in the Context of the Debate on UN Reform.- Annex.- A Research Institutes in German-Speaking Regions that Work on the Environment and Security Nexus.- B Internet Sites on Environment and Security.- C Journals that Publish Articles on Environment and Security Regularly or Occasionally.- The Authors.