The Caspian Sea A Quest for Environmental Security
This volume is based on the presentations and deliberations of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security" that was held on March 15-19, 1999, in Venice (Italy). The Workshop was sponsored by the NATO's Division for Scientific and Environmenta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
| Series: | NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2, Environmental Security
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- A. What is at Stake in the Caspian: Development versus Environment?
- 2. Environmental Change and Human Security in the Caspian Region: Threats, Vulnerability and Response Strategies
- 3. International Good Governance and Civilized Conduct among the Caspian States: Oil and Gas as Lever for Prosperity or Conflict
- 4. Regional Developmental Requirements and the Role of Caspian Development
- 5. Ecological Consequences of Oil and Gas Development
- 6. New Methods for Managing Caspian Sea Level Fluctuations
- B. Caspian Geopolitics
- 7. The Geopolitics of the Region
- 8. Security and the Environment in the Caspian Sea
- 9. Security Problems in the Caucasus
- 10. The International Politics of Energy in the Caspian Sea Basin: Russia, Turkey and the Pipeline Project
- C. Law and Development
- 11. The Caspian and International Law: Like Oil and Water?
- 12. Basic Legal Issues of the Management of Natural Resources of the Caspian Sea
- 13. Caspian Legal Regime: Dynamics of Kazakhstan’s Position
- 14. The “Tug of War” in the Caspian: Legal Positions of the Coastal States
- D. The Role of Civil Society & Scientific Institutions
- 15. Environment and the Development of Civil Society in the Caspian Region: The Role of NGOs
- 16. How NGOs Abandoned Governance in the Caspian Region
- 17. The Political Role of Civil Society in Georgia
- 18. The State of Scientific Research on the Caspian Environment: Russian Data
- E. Prospects of Effective International Cooperation
- 19. Regional Cooperation:Lessons for the Caspian Sea
- 20. Technodiplomacy and Environmental Cooperation:Lessons for the Caspian
- 21. Applying Lessons from the Aral Sea Basin:The Role of Non-State Actors
- 22. National, Subnational, and International Politics:Environmental Regime-Building in theCaspian Sea
- 23. Caspian Environment Programme: Prospects For Regime Formation and Effectiveness
- F. Conclusions
- 24. Moving toward International Cooperation in the Caspian Region: Insights from the Workshop