Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138704893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 286 str.

Judith Nora Hardt

Opis

This book provides a critical assessment of the theories and practice of environmental security in the context of the Anthropocene. The work analyses the intellectual foundations, the evolution and different interpretations, strengths and potential of the link between environment and security, but also its weaknesses, incoherencies and distortions. To do so, it employs a critical environmental security studies analytical framework and uniquely places this analysis within the context of the Anthropocene. Furthermore, the book examines the practice-theory divide, and the political implementation of the environmental security concept in response to global environmental change and in relation to different actors. It pays significant attention to the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC), which is led by different programs of the United Nations, the OSCE and until recently by NATO, among others, and has largely been overlooked in the academic literature to date. The goal is to study how environmental security practice could inform and shape the environmental security theory, and also to explore how, conversely, new theoretical insights could contribute to the enhancement of environmental security activities. This book will be of great interest to students and academic scholars of environmental security, critical security studies, green political theory, global governance and IR in general.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The new socio-ecological world of our making  Part I: Environmental security in theory 2. Genealogy, research phases and debates of the concept of environmental security 3. Critical Environmental Security Studies (CESS): a framework for analysis  Part II: Environmental security: analysis of the practical implementation 4. Overview of environmental security implementation in the system of global environmental governance 5. The case of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) and its political implementation of the concept of environmental security 6. Critical analysis of the ENVSEC conception of environmental security in the Critical Environmental Security Study framework (CESS) 7. Conclusions. Environmental Security in the Anthropocene