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ECSP Report 12: Reviews of New Publications

Environmental Change and Security Program
Minerals, Forests, and Violent Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Experts review new publications:

  • Development and Security in Southeast Asia, Volume I: The Environment, edited by David B. Dewitt and Carolina G. Hernandez (2003). Reviewed by Evelyn Goh.
  • Environment and Security: Transforming Risks Into Cooperation, Ferghana/Osh/Khujand Area, by Luigi De Martino, et al. (2005). Reviewed by Keely Lange.
  • The Enemy Within: Southern African Militaries’ Quarter-Century Battle with HIV and AIDS, edited by Martin Rupiya (2006). Reviewed by Stefan Elbe.
  • Global Demographic Change: Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges, edited by Gordon Sellon, Jr. (2004); and The New Demographic Regime: Population Challenges and Policy Responses, Edited by Miroslav Macura, Alphonse L. MacDonald, and Werner Haug (2005). Reviewed by Kyle Ash.
  • HIV/AIDS and the Threat to National and International Security, edited by Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. (2007). Reviewed by Harley Feldbaum.
  • Human and Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change, edited by Felix Dodds and Tim Pippard (2005). Reviewed by Karen O’Brien.
  • Liquid Assets: How Demographic Changes and Water Management Policies Affect Freshwater Resources, by Jill Boberg (2005). Reviewed by Ruth Meinzen-Dick.
  • The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, edited by Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll (2006). Reviewed by Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba.
  • State of World Population 2005: The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals (2005) and State of World Population 2006: A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration (2006), by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Reviewed by Jennifer W. Kaczor.
  • States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World, by Colin Kahl (2006). Reviewed by Patricia Kameri-Mbote.
  • Trans-boundary Water Co-operation as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and Broader Benefit Sharing, by David Phillips, Marwa Daoudy, Joakim Öjendal, Stephen McCaffrey, and Anthony Turton (2006). Reviewed by Shlomi Dinar.
  • The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, by Eugene Linden (2006); and Security and Climate Change: International Relations and the Limits of Realism, by Mark Lacy (2005). Reviewed by Joshua Busby.

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