Environment and Security:
An Overview of Issues and Research Priorities for Canada

Foreword
Panel Members
I. Introduction
- II. Types of Environmentally Induced Conflict
- Environmental Degradation and its causes
- Characterizing the Relationship Between Environmental Change and Security
- III. Examples of Conflicts Involving the Environment
- Resource Scarcity: Water in the Middle East
- Environmental Change, Population Movements and Security
- Resource Inequities
- Global Environmental Change and Security
- IV. Research Questions
- Security as a Dependent Variable
- Security as an Independent Variable
- Opportunities for Policy Intervention
- V. Research Priorities
- VI. Summary and Conclusion
- VII. International Organizations Active in Environment and Security Research
- Canada
- Other
- Bibliography
- Appendix: Environment and Security Panel Members
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