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Environmental Security : Approaches and Issues.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136266751
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.7/05610973
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Environmental security studies: an introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1: Analyst, theory and security: a new framework for understanding environmental security studies -- Chapter 2: The evolution of qualitative environment-conflict research: moving towards consensus -- Chapter 3: Environmental security and the resource curse -- Chapter 4: A political ecology of environmental security -- Chapter 5: From conflict to cooperation? Environmental cooperation as a tool for peace-building -- Chapter 6. Environmental dimensions of human security -- Chapter 7. Ecological security: a conceptual framework -- Chapter 8. Gender and environmental security -- PART II -- Chapter 9. Understanding water security -- Chapter 10. Conservation, science and peace-building in southeastern Europe -- Chapter 11. Population and national security -- Chapter 12. Environmental security and sustainable development -- Chapter 13. Ensuring food security: meeting challenges from malnutrition, food safety, and global environmental change -- Chapter 14. Challenging inequality and injustice: a critical approach to energy security -- Chapter 15. Climate change and security -- Chapter 16. Whither environmental security studies? An afterword -- Index.
Summary: Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet's natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. The field of environmental security has matured in response to improved scientific understanding of the causes and trends of global environmental change. Research conducted in the past two decades has grappled with this core set of questions in a variety of ways, generating findings and hypotheses that have stimulated considerable intellectual and policy activity. This volume takes stock of the research, and organizes it into a framework, described in the first chapter of the volume, that clarifies its achievements as well as identifies its weaknesses and gaps. This is followed by seven chapters representing the various ways in which environmental change and security have been linked, and including the principal critiques of this linkage. A third section explores six key issue areas: water, population, development, food, energy and climate change. The book concludes with a chapter on the future of environmental security.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Environmental security studies: an introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1: Analyst, theory and security: a new framework for understanding environmental security studies -- Chapter 2: The evolution of qualitative environment-conflict research: moving towards consensus -- Chapter 3: Environmental security and the resource curse -- Chapter 4: A political ecology of environmental security -- Chapter 5: From conflict to cooperation? Environmental cooperation as a tool for peace-building -- Chapter 6. Environmental dimensions of human security -- Chapter 7. Ecological security: a conceptual framework -- Chapter 8. Gender and environmental security -- PART II -- Chapter 9. Understanding water security -- Chapter 10. Conservation, science and peace-building in southeastern Europe -- Chapter 11. Population and national security -- Chapter 12. Environmental security and sustainable development -- Chapter 13. Ensuring food security: meeting challenges from malnutrition, food safety, and global environmental change -- Chapter 14. Challenging inequality and injustice: a critical approach to energy security -- Chapter 15. Climate change and security -- Chapter 16. Whither environmental security studies? An afterword -- Index.

Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet's natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. The field of environmental security has matured in response to improved scientific understanding of the causes and trends of global environmental change. Research conducted in the past two decades has grappled with this core set of questions in a variety of ways, generating findings and hypotheses that have stimulated considerable intellectual and policy activity. This volume takes stock of the research, and organizes it into a framework, described in the first chapter of the volume, that clarifies its achievements as well as identifies its weaknesses and gaps. This is followed by seven chapters representing the various ways in which environmental change and security have been linked, and including the principal critiques of this linkage. A third section explores six key issue areas: water, population, development, food, energy and climate change. The book concludes with a chapter on the future of environmental security.

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