Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity

ISBN-13: 9780393315684 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 242 str.

Michael Renner

Opis

The author argues that true security has less to do with how many tanks or soldiers a country can marshal and more with how well it protects its arable lands and watersheds and how well it manages to meet peoples social and economic needs. Military means are often irrelevant or even counterproductive in this new security equation; they are a depreciating asset. At a time when the United Nations has been devoting a sharply higher share of its resources to peacekeeping, while reducing spending on basic environmental and economic development, this new book provides a wake-up call for policy makers around the world