Synopses & Reviews
This book is for researchers, academics, and professionals with geographic information systems (GIS) experience who need to know more about environmental modeling. It is also intended for environmental modelers who want to know more about GIS, its advantages, and its problems. The first part
of the book describes the state of the art in GIS, environmental modeling, spatial statistics, and spatial databases. The second part reviews the state of integration in each of the major "process" areas, ranging from atmospheric to subsurface. Each section includes an overview chapter and case
studies. This book will be useful to planners in federal agencies (EPA, DOE, USGS, Parks Service, etc.), academic researchers, environmental consultants, and as a text for advanced GIS courses.
Synopsis
Considering the full range of activities in which the Bretton Woods institutions have become engaged over the past ten years, this work explores the conflict-mitigating potential, both direct and indirect, of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank interventions (as well as the constitutional and political obstacles that hinder more salutary involvement in security-related activities). It argues that while the Bretton Woods institutions must not usurp national governments' military authority, or otherwise exceed their mandates, they can still use their economic tools to prevent conflict and remedy its negative consequences.
Synopsis
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
About the Author
Jonathan Stevenson, a lawyer and journalist, is a research associate at the IISS and deputy editor of Strategic Survey. He has lived in East Africa and Northern Ireland, and written on economic factors in low-intensity conflict. Mr Stevenson composed this Adelphi Paper while a research associate at the IISS in 1999-2000.
Table of Contents
Glossary
Introduction
The Bretton Woods Institutions and Security:
Conflict Prevention in IFI Practice: Changing Priorities
Argument in Brief
1. The Security Impacts of Crisis Intervention and Structural Adjustment
IFI Practices and Procedures
The Asian Economic Crisis and Security
Structural Adjustment and Conflict
Towards Institutionalising Conflict Alleviation
2. IFIs and Military Expenditures
IMF Policy and Practice
World Bank Policy and Practice
Complication in Assessing and Controlling Military Expenditures
Poverty Reduction and Military Expenditures
Preserving IFI Input into Military Spending
3. IFIs and Peacebuilding
Conditionality versus Peacebuilding
Technical Assistance in War-Torn Socities
Neutralising 'Spoilers'
Peace through Development
Clarifying Peacebuilding Opportunities
Conclusion Hardening Soft Power
Appendix Articles of Agreement - Provisions Relevant to Alleviating Conflict
The International Monetry Fund
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Notes