Environmental Security (eBook, PDF)

Approaches and Issues
Redaktion: Floyd, Rita; Matthew, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet's natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. For over twenty years, considerable research and debate have focused on clarifying or disputing linkages between various forms of environmental change and various understandings of security. At one extreme lie sceptics who contend that the linkages are weak or even non-existent; they are simply attempts to harness the resources of the security arena to an environmental agenda. At the other extreme lie those who believe that these linkages may be the most important drivers of security in the 21st century; indeed, the very future of humankind may be at stake.

This book 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. Part I explores the various ways environmental change and security have been linked, and provides principal critiques of this linkage. Part II explores the linkage through analysis of key issue areas such as climate change, energy, water, food, population, and development. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the value of this subfield of security studies, and with some ideas about the questions it might profitably address in the future.

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the field. With contributions from around the world, it combines established and emerging scholars to offer a platform for the next wave of research and policy activity. It is invaluable for both students and practitioners interested in international relations, environment studies and human geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136266751
• Artikelnr.: 38248822

Autorenporträt

Rita Floyd is a Birmingham Fellow in Conflict and Security at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Richard A. Matthew is a Professor in the Schools of Social Ecology and Social Science at the University of California at Irvine, and founding Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu).

Inhaltsangabe

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