Au moment ou les hostilités s'ouvrirent en Europe, le Gouvernement belge, désireux de ne pas porter la guerre en Afrique, et respectueux des stipulations de l'acte de Berlin, ordonna aux troupes coloniales de conserver, vis-à-vis des possessions allemandes (Cameroun à l'Ouest, Afrique orientale à l'Est), une attitude strictement défensive.
Ce livre aborde les effets néfastes mais aussi bénéfiques des missions militaires sur la biodiversité, et explore comment la nature devient un nouvel enjeu géopolitique.
After a short introduction of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), the present presentation develops the application of the ecosystem approach by the military sector, in particular in relation to peace-support operations and reconstruction programmes. It describes a simple model of 4 steps. The first step deals with the physical system (“the ecosystem”), the second step with the use of the ecosystem and the third step with its management (institutions and regulations).
This joint report considers the role and impact of environmental factors in securing human safety and sustained development of the eastern Caspian Sea region, including the parts of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan opening onto the Caspian Sea. Its analysis introduces a security perspective as it seeks to identify those environmental, socio-economic and political issues that are profoundly affecting the livelihoods of the populations and could lead to social tensions and instability.
