Comprehensive Security for the Baltic: An Environmental Approach (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803982186 ISBN 13: 9780803982185

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

International security continues to be a topic of deep concern. As nations strive to protect their interests, an issue of international importance has been proposed to contribute to comprehensive national security: environmental protection. Comprehensive Security for the Baltic considers the extent to which regional cooperation on environmental protection and natural-resource utilization serves as a political confidence-building process that can contribute to the achievement of comprehensive international security. Using the Baltic Sea ecosystem as a case study, the contributors examine ways of building regional confidence sufficient to permit an environmentally sound development strategy to be realized. "It would be a mistake to suppose that the rather amazing recent political changes render this book out of date, for it provides a detailed and valuable survey of the agencies for international cooperation which had in fact been established by 1989, and of the progress which they had achieved. In particular, the book provides us with much useful information on progress made in limiting fishery catches, and in monitoring the quality of the Baltic Sea itself." --Global Environmental Change

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`It provides a detailed and valuable survey of the agencies for international cooperation′ - Global Environmental Change

`As I read this book, the news media frequently reminded me that the oil wells of Kuwait were still burning ferociously, spreading pollution in the air and contaminating the desert, several months after the cessation of hostilities in the Gulf. The book was written and published before the war started, but its timeliness and the importance of the subject matter have been emphasized by what happened in the Middle East in the early months of 1991. The book ends on an optimistic note, in putting great faith in the development of an understanding amongst the world′s peoples that the destruction of the environment can be in no one′s best interest. I am still not sure that the Gulf war has brought such an understanding any closer′ - Medicine and War

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803982186
• ISBN 13: 9780803982185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Westing Arthur H