1st Edition

Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts What Relevance for Regional Human Security Regimes?

Edited By Harlan Koff, Carmen Maganda Copyright 2018
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

Much of the discussion surrounding the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the post-2015 global development agenda has contextualized sustainable development within the framework of ‘transformation’, specifically prioritizing concepts such as equity, security, justice, and rights. While these debates correctly discussed power imbalances and relational obstacles to human... Read more

Introduction: Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts: What Relevance for Regional Human Security Regimes?

Harlan Koff and Carmen Maganda

1. Reconciling Competing Globalizations through Regionalisms? Environmental Security in the Framework of Expanding Security Norms and Narrowing Security Policies

Harlan Koff

2. Water Security Debates in ‘Safe’ Water Security Frameworks: Moving Beyond the Limits of Scarcity

Carmen Maganda

3. Scarcity and Power in US–Mexico Transboundary Water Governance: Has the Architecture Changed since NAFTA?

Stephen P. Mumme

4. Many Faces of Security: Discursive Framing in Cross-border Natural Resource Governance in the Mekong River Commission

Andrea K. Gerlak and Farhad Mukhtarov

5. Of River Linkage and Issue Linkage: Transboundary Conflict and Cooperation on the River Meuse

Jeroen Frank Warner

6. Escaping the Border, Debordering the Nature: Protected Areas, Participatory Management, and Environmental Security in Northern Patagonia (i.e. Chile and Argentina)

Bastien Sepúlveda and Sylvain Guyot

Biography

Harlan Koff is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg. He is President of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC) (www.risc.lu) and co-editor of the journal Regions & Cohesion (Berghahn Journals). He conducts research on migration, international development, regional integration, and borderlands.

Carmen Maganda (Ph.D.) is Research Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the Instituto de Ecología (INECOL), Mexico. She is co-editor of the journal Regions & Cohesion (Berghahn Journals). Her research focuses on social participation in environmental governance, water security/justice and regional integration.