Conversion: Opportunities for Development and Environment

by Anke Brunn (Editor), Lutz Baehr (Editor), Hans-Jürgen Karpe (Editor)

Overview

CONVERSION - in the meantime the term for the process of converting arms industry into industrial production of non-military goods - is becoming a key subject in the building of the eastern economies. These Proceedings contain all important presentations of an international Conference in Dortmund in 1992. Speakers were well known experts from economy, politics, science and military, thus this book gives an up-to-date, excellent overview.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642957031
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/12/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Pages:	461
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Argentina.- 1 Conversion & Environmental Conflict.- 2. The Conversion of the Military Industrial Complex in Progress in Argentina.- Egypt.- 3. Conversion as Conception Confusion.- France.- 4. Between Disarmament and Sovereignity?.- Germany.- 5. Sustainable Development — A Challenge for the World Economy.- 6. Armament Conversion.- 7.Technologies for Contaminated Military Sites.- 8.Utilization of Hardware: Options and Constraints.- 9. Dual Use Technologies.- 10.Strategie Concepts for Remediation of Soil Contamination.- 11.Proposal to Establish a Federal Agency for Baltic Sea Marine Environment Monitoring and Protection.- 12. Use of Remote-Sensing Methods.- 13. The Economic Costs of Peace.- 14. Political, Economic and Legal Conditions for the Process of Conversion of International Security Systems.- 15. Contaminated Sites in the Ownership of Federal Defense Forces.- 16. Conversion and Disposal of Explosives and Propellants.- 17. Disarmament Economy — A New Industrial Activity?.- 18. Federal Environmental Agency.- 19. Project-Oriented Environmental Management.- 20. Environmental Applications of Military Information and Communication Technologies.- Italy.- 21. From Military to Civilian Production.- Pakistan.- 22. Conversion Opportunities for Development and Environment.- Russia/CIS.- 23. Conversion as a Chance for Development and Environment.- 24. Defence Conversion in the Declining Economy.- 25. Problems and Possibilities of Technology Transfer.- 26. Specific Aspects of the Conversion Problem in the Evolving Russia.- 27. Some Military Production Conversion Aspects.- 28. Main Directions of Radio-Chemical Technology Conversion.- 29. Ecologically Sound Construction Technologies for the Russian Military.- 30. Pulsed Equipment — Problems of Conversion.- 31. ThermionicEnergy Conversion.- United Kingdom.- 32. National Case Studies on Conversion.- U.N.O..- 33. Macroeconomic and Environmental Effects of Military Conversion.- 34. Military Resources to the Environment.- 35. Technical Co-operation to Support the Conversion of Military to Civilian Industry.- U.S.A..- 36. Debt Reduction in Exchange for Arms Conversion.- 37. Converting U.S. Science and Technology Resources to Civilian Use.- 38. Military Conversion and Economic Development: The China Case.- 39. Problems and Prospects of Conversion.- 40. Defense Industry Conversion.- 41. Soviet Resources in the Defence Sector.- 42. Successful Conversion Experiences.- 43. Environmental Dimensions of Disarmament and Conversion.- 44. Conversion and the Death of the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex.- 45. Technology Policy and Economic Conversion in the United States.- Annex.- List of authors.