Harlan Koff - Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts: What Relevance for Regional Human Security Regimes?

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 development they have remained abstract because they focused only on the international level. In this regard, discussions have not adequately examined mechanisms that facilitate or block the emergence of sustainable development as a political priority, nor do they address specific policy proposals to link environmental justice to human development strategies. This book contends that human and environmental security should be framed in terms of transnational discussions rather than being limited to general international debates in order to examine both governance challenges and potential policy mechanisms that can effectively address environmental security issues that cross national boundaries. The chapters in this volume undertake an empirical examination of the relationships between human and environmental security, cross-border exchanges, and regional integration. They address the relationships between international norms, transnational human and environmental security issues, and the regionalization of governance in different parts of the world as the book includes comparative analyses as well as case studies from Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

The book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

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. He is Docent in Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Carmen Maganda (PhD) is Research Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the Instituto de Ecologa (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.

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The chapters in this book were originally published in Globalizations, volume 13, issue 6 (December 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Introduction

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

Harlan Koff & Carmen Maganda

Globalizations, volume 13, issue 6 (December 2016), pp. 653663

Chapter 1

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

Harlan Koff

Globalizations, volume 13, issue 6 (December 2016), pp. 664682

Chapter 2