Environmental Security

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Research conducted in the past two decades has grappled with this core set of questions in a variety of ways, generating findings and hypotheses that have stimulated considerable intellectual and policy activity. This volume takes stock of the research, and organizes it into a framework, described in the first chapter of the volume, that clarifies its achievements as well as identifies its weaknesses and gaps. This is followed by seven chapters representing the various ways in which environmental change and security have been linked, and including the principal critiques of this linkage. A third section explores six key issue areas: water, population, development, food, energy and climate change. The book concludes with a chapter on the future of environmental security.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415539005
• ISBN-10: 0415539005
• Artikelnr.: 36124733

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