11. SOCIOECONOMIC AND COMMUNICATION TOOLS TO ENHANCE ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: A CASE STUDY IN EGYPT

摘要

An initiative recently completed in Egypt as part of a climate change project illustrates several socioeconomic and communications tools that can be used to enhance environmental security. The primary purpose of the climate change initiative (CCI) project was to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted during production at brick factories in Egypt. This was accomplished through the conversion of the present system, which employs heavy oil (mazot), to natural gas. While the reduction of GHG emissions in Egypt is an important national and global goal, it is relatively meaningless to those most directly affected by the project (I.e., the brick factory owners, workers, and local residents of the surrounding communities). Therefore,