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Meaning of Environmental Security Ecological Politics and Policy in the New Security Era

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ISBN-10: 1856497860

ISBN-13: 9781856497862

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jon Barnett

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Jon Barnett takes on the military-industrial interests of those in the establishment to reveal how ordinary human beings must have a safe environment in which security is subordinate to care of the planet and its delicate ecosystems.
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Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Locating Environmental Security
Where this book comes from
Where this book goes
Environmental Insecurity: Ecological Exacerbations of Underdevelopment
Environmental degradation
Environmental insecurity
The defence of environmental insecurity
Security: From What and for Whom?
The concept of security
A (very) brief history of national security
National security and strategy
New Security Issues: The Old Guard Looks for New Targets
Energy security
Economic security
Food security
The environment as a security issue
Common and comprehensive security
Redefining security: what's at stake?
Environmental Degradation and Conflict: Conscripting the Voice of Dissent
Resource wars
Water wars
Population, environment and conflict
The project on environment, population and security
Theoretical deficiencies
Policies for Pollution and the Pollution of Policy
The US National Security Strategy
The US Department of Defense
The US State Department
(Re)securing the state
The Biggest of Institutional Challenges: The Military
War and the environment
Preparing for war and the environment
Meeting the challenge
Risks, risk, and some opportunities
Ecological Security: An Alternative Security Strategy
Ecology and security
Ecology, resilience and security
Ecology and sovereignty
When ecological problems become security problems
Concepts and the contestation of security
Environmental Security for People
Reclaiming security
Environmental security as human security
Environmental security and sustainability
Concepts and the contestation of security revisited
Towards Environmental Security
People and politics
Governance for environmental security
(In)Conclusions
Bibliography
Index