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environmental security database

Database Coding System

Every item in the Environmental Security Database has been coded in such a way as to allow extensive cross-referencing.

Information is divided into major subject areas (designated by capital letters) and subgroups (designated by lowercase letters and numbers).

For example, information on ‘deforestation’ would be found in the category Environmental Change(E)-biological(b)-forests/fuelwood(4), for which the code is Eb4

The major subject areas are:

  • Environmental Change
  • Conflict
  • Philosophy
  • Energy
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(E) ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

(g) geographical

  1. Sahel (Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan)
  2. Senegal basin (includes Mauritania)
  3. Horn (Ethiopia, Somalia)
  4. Egypt
  5. Africa (general and regions outside #1-4)
  6. Middle East (general and regions outside Egypt)
  7. Peru
  8. Brazil
  9. Latin America (general and regions outside Peru and Brazil)
  10. Haiti/Caribbean
  11. China
  12. Indonesia
  13. Philippines
  14. Thailand
  15. Bangladesh-Assam
  16. South Asia (general and regions outside Bangladesh- Assam)
  17. The Poles
  18. South-east Asia (general and regions outside #12,13,14)
  19. Central Asia
  20. Canada
  21. Former Soviet Union (general and regions outside #19)
  22. U.S.A.
  23. Europe (general)
  24. Eastern Europe
  25. East Asia outside China (Japan, Taiwan, Koreas)

(f) physical

  1. extreme events
  2. greenhouse warming/CO2/climate
  3. methane/clathrates
  4. ozone depletion/CFC’s
  5. sea level rise
  6. soil/desertification/agricultural land
  7. water (quality and quantity)/dams
  8. hydrological cycles
  9. heavy metals, solid wastes, toxic wastes (general) – see Ed3
  10. acid deposition
  11. air pollution
  12. non-renewable resource scarcity

(b) biological

  1. biodiversity/ecosystems/evolution
  2. fisheries (marine/freshwater)/ocean ecosystems
  3. food production/agriculture/famine/drought – see Ee6
  4. forests/fuelwood
  5. population (growth, demographics, family planning, quality of life)
  6. health
  7. wetlands/estuaries/coastal areas/freshwater ecosystems

(t) technical

  1. methodological problems
  2. environmental/global models/systems
  3. nonlinearities/chaos/complexity
  4. remote sensing/environmental and resource measurement/environmental indicators
  5. interactive effects/unanticipated consequences/uncertainty

(s) social

  1. social organization/domestic resource management, environmental regulation
  2. social adaptation/vulnerability (incl. impacts on marginal groups and wealth differentials)
  3. culture/religion

(p) political

  1. realism/IR theory
  2. negotiation
  3. international environmental politics/law/meetings/institutions
  4. civil/ethnic conflict
  5. extreme conflict (global, esp. North-South)
  6. environmental security and conflict (general)
  7. simple scarcity conflict (international, over resources)
  8. state capacity (strength of governments)
  9. NGOs
  10. democratic development/institutions

(d) developmental

  1. southern vulnerability (when compared to north) & North/South relations
  2. technology transfer/diffusion
  3. toxic wastes (transferred North to South)
  4. indigenous peoples (all material, whether or not related to environmental change)
  5. refugees/migration
  6. urbanization/urban problems
  7. sustainable development
  8. general development issues (eg. poverty, debt, role of aid)
  9. community/local level development work
  10. role of women/gender issues/children
  11. crime

(e) economic

  1. market mechanisms
  2. Cornucopian/neo-Malthusian debate
  3. environmental economics (theoretical)
  4. wealth (environmental impacts on wealth; measures of environmental wealth/value)
  5. ingenuity
  6. green revolution and food economics/policy – see Eb3
  7. general economic theory/political economic theory
  8. international trade (and environment)
  9. multinational companies

(c) conceptual

  1. conceptual change (esp. sovereignty); attitudes towards nature
  2. ethics and equity/property rights
  3. human nature
  4. new world
  5. perception
  6. philosophy

(w) due to war

  1. Gulf war
  2. defence industries
  3. general

(C) CONFLICT

(s) civil strife

(c) causes of conflict and war

(g) group-identity conflict

(n) nationalism

(l) domestic-foreign conflict linkages

(m) quantitative models

(p) proliferation/arms races/weapons trade

(a) arms control/weapons technologies

(u) U.N. reform; New World Order

(r) conflict resolution, peacekeeping

(P) PHILOSOPHY

(m) philosophy of mind, cognitive science

(a) philosophy of action

(l) philosophy of language

(s) philosophy of social science

(c) philosophy of science

(p) political philosophy and theory

(g) problems of causation and generalization

(N) ENERGY

(n) nuclear power

(o) oil/other fossil fuels

(e) energy demand, management, conservation

(c) non-conventional sources

(h) hydropower

(v) general environmental issues/policy

(m) energy economics

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