Environmental Security: Approaches and Issues

ISBN-13: 9780415538992 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 302 str.

Rita Floyd; Richard Matthew

Opis

This text brings together contributions from a range of disciplines to present a critical and comprehensive overview of the research and debate linking environmental factors to security. It provides a framework for representing and understanding key areas of intellectual convergence and disagreement, clarifying achievements of the research as well as identifying its weaknesses and gaps.

Spis treści

Environmental Security Studies: An Introduction 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  Chapter 9. Understanding Water Security  Chapter 10. Conservation, Science and Peace-building in South-eastern 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