Prince Bernhard (the Netherlands), 222

probabilistic hazard (H), 131

Rabin, Yitzhak, 202

radiological contamination, 118

Ramsar, 223

reemerging diseases. See also emerging diseases, 129

Regional Enhanced Livelihoods in Pastoral Areas (RELPA), 77

Regional Environment Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), 205

RELPA. See also Regional Enhanced Livelihoods in Pastoral Areas, 77

resource abundance theory, 186–187, 196

resource scarcity, 10, 38, 62–63, 66, 88, 186, 192, 233

Revolutionary United Front (RUF), 190

Rice, Susan, 22

Rio de Janeiro, 203

riparian, 83–86

risk assessment scenarios, xiv, 133

Roth, Richard, 107

Rupert, Anton, 222

Rwanda, 39, 84, 119, 188–190, 196, 199, 210

Rwanda Patriotic Front, 189

Sachs, Jeffrey, 11–12, 39

sacred forest, 103–104

Sadio, Salif, 90, 92, 102, 107–109

Sahel, 4–5, 17, 20, 25, 27, 30–31, 33–34, 39, 42–43, 48–51, 55, 151, 175, 179, 193

Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) . See “QAIM”, 21, 43, 106, 175

Sambou, Youba, 95

Sané, Nkrumah, 107–108

SARS. See also H5N1 influenza, 13, 128

Science for Peace Programme, 206

Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). See also Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), 112–115

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. See also Clinton, Hillary, 172

Security Science Forum on Environmental Security, 206

Seismic Disaster Preparedness Conference, 2005, 170

Senegal, xiii, 18, 50, 89–93, 95–109

Senghor, Father Augustin Diamacoune, 95

Senghor, President Léopold, 95

Sierra Leone, 33, 94, 105, 190–191

sinks. See also greenhouse gas (GHG), 146, 151, 163, 165

Serer, 95

Somalia Islamic Courts Council. See also al Shabaab, 176

South Africa, xiii, xiv, 111–117, 119–123, 137, 143, 159–162, 166, 178, 205, 216–217, 221–223, 227–228, 230–231, 234

Southern African Power Pool, 214

Southern African Development Community (SADO), 198, 215, 217, 233

Soviet Union, 101, 170

Spain, 98, 174

Special Court for Sierra Leone, 191