Environmental Security, Water Resources and International Security Organizations (Chapter in "Security and Human Right to Water in Central Asia")
Publisher: Springer
Author(s): Miguel Ángel Pérez Martín
Date: 2017
Topics: Climate Change, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
There is a wide range of environmental threats to the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) in Central Asia: desertification, the intensive use of insecticides and fertilizers harmful to the environment, global warming, nuclear pollution risks—uranium waste dumps—or pollution coming from extractive or military industrial complexes. Most of these threats are of a transnational nature and are the cause or consequence of water resource management models. In this chapter, the author analyzes the conflicts, risks and vulnerabilities in the region related to the security environment and water resources, as well as the cooperative response to the environmental problems by international organizations—the Collective Security Treaty Organization (OTCS), the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and NATO-sponsored programs—in terms of security policies.