Environmental Security Approaches and Issues

Name: Environmental Security Approaches and Issues
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ISBN: 9780415539005

ISBN-10: 0415539005

ISBN-13: 9780415539005

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rita Floyd, Richard Matthew

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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. It investigates a set of questions that may be the most important questions of the twenty-first century. Under what conditions do various forms of environmental change cause or contribute to security challenges such as violent conflict, humanitarian crisis, population displacement, and state failure? What can be done to reduce the frequency and intensity of such outcomes? What are the…

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List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Rita Floyd is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Security.



List of figures


List of tables


Acknowledgements


List of contributors


List of abbreviations


Environmental security studies: an introduction







Analyst, theory and security: a new framework for understanding environmental security studies




The evolution of qualitative environment-conflict research: moving towards consensus




Environmental security and the resource curse




A political ecology of environmental security




From conflict to cooperation? Environmental cooperation as a tool for peace-building




Environmental dimensions of human security




Ecological security: a conceptual framework




Gender and environmental security







Understanding water security




Conservation, science and peace-building in southeastern Europe




Population and national security




Environmental security and sustainable development




Ensuring food security: meeting challenges from malnutrition, food safety, and global environmental change




Challenging inequality and injustice: a critical approach to energy security




Climate change and security




Whither environmental security studies? An afterword



Index