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Environmental Security in Greece

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Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication

The Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication series focuses on the political use of digital everyday-networked media by corporations, governments, international organisations (Digital Politics), as well as civil society actors, NGOs, activists, social movements and dissidents (Digital Activism) attempting to recruit, organise and fund their operations, through information communication technologies.

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Environmental Security in Greece: Perceptions from Industry, Government, NGOs and the Public

By

Charis (Harris) Gerosideris

The University of Sheffield, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

To the memory of Eythimios Karystinos

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Abbreviations

ECB

European Central Bank

EEA

European Environment Agency

ENCOP

Environment and Conflicts Project

EU

European Union

EYATH

Thessaloniki Water Supply and Sewerage Company

EYDAP

Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company

GECHS

Global Environmental Change and Human Security

GHGs

Greenhouse Gases

HRADF

Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (GR)

IMF

International Monetary Fund

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IR

International Relations

MIT

Turkic National Intelligence Organization

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

ONA

Office of Net Assessment (US)

OPCW

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

PKK

Kurdistan Workers' Party

PM

Prime Minister

PPC

Public Power Corporation

PRIO

International Peace Research Institute

UN

United Nations

UNFCCC

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UNISDR

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

WWI

First World War

YPEKA

Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (GR)

About the Author

Charis (Harris) Gerosideris is Teaching Faculty of the University of Sheffield, and he was an Assistant Professor in Security Studies at the King Fahd Security College and University of New Haven in Saudi Arabia. He holds a PhD degree in International Relations and Politics from Keele University focused on Environmental Security and Energy Security in Greece. His research interests include environmental security and energy security, homeland and national security, intelligence, Q-methodology, social and digital movements (green movements) and digital methods.

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I would like to offer my sincerest gratitude to Professor Athina Karatzogianni for her support, advice and patience throughout the production of this book. Additionally, I would like to thank the NGOs' members, policymakers and energy-industry members involved in the collection of the data, for providing their opinions and viewpoints. This would not have been possible without the participants who gave their time and passion in the discussion of this research study. Above all, I want to thank my friends and colleagues across the United Kingdom and Greece, and especially Dr Stephen Jeffares, Dr Ioanna Ferra, Alexandros Thermos and Tom Rhodes for their valuable feedback, time, thoughts and critiques over the years. Lastly, this book is dedicated to my mother, Maria, and my newborn daughter, Vasileia Maria Gerosideri, and to the memory of Michael Doukas and Paraskevi Karystinou for the inestimable influence they had on my life.