Inhalt: Peter H. Gleick: Fresh Water: A Source of Conflict or Cooperation? A Survey of Present Developments (1-25); Katarina Rogers: Environmental Conflict and Cooperation between Mexico and the United States (27-64); Caroline Thomas: Water: A Focus for Cooperation or Contention in a Conflict Prone Region? The Example of the Lower Mekong Basin (65-125); Vaclav Smil: China's Environmental Refugees: Causes, Dimensions and Risks of an Emerging Problem (127-148); Thomas König: Environmental Issues in Thailand. A Case Study with Special Reference to the Struggle about Eucalyptus Plantations (149-174); William Lume: The Ecological Background to the Struggle between Tuaregs and the Central Government of Niger (175-202); Sigrid Faath: Umweltprobleme und Bevölkerungsdruck: Eine Ursache politischer Konflikte in Algerien? (203-268); Olaf Claus: "Batawana say to Dredge a River is to Destroy it." The Case of the Southern Okavango Integrated Water Development Project (269-284); Regina Wegemund: Ethnic and Transborder Conflicts in the Senegambian Region Caused by Environmental Degradation (285-313); Regine Schönenberg: "Environmental Conflicts in the Amazon Region of Brazil" (315-357); Rainer Schwark: Environment and Development in Chile: Future Social Conflict Potential of the Dams Project at the Bio-Bio River. A Case Study (359-407); Henning Melber: Urbanisation and Internal Migration: Regional Dimensions in Post-Colonial Namibia (409-440).