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Author : Dr Manoj Kumar Mishra
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329836143
Author : Rita Floyd,Richard A. Matthew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415538992
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.
Author : Ashok Swain,Joakim Öjendal,Anders Jägerskog
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789900668
This comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food, water and health insecurities, resulting in population migration. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, chapters cover how these contribute globally to societal insecurity and violent conflict in a growing number of regions.
Author : Peter Hough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134696031
This student-friendly textbook offers a survey of the competing conceptions and applications of the increasingly prominent notion of environmental security. The book is divided into three sections. In the first, the key theoretical and practical arguments for and against bringing together environmental and security issues are set out. The book then goes on to present how and why environmental issues have come to be framed in some quarters as ‘national security‘ concerns in the context of the effects of overpopulation, resource depletion, climate change and the role of the military as both a cause and a solution to problems of pollution and natural disasters. Finally, the third section explores the case for treating the key issues of environmental change as matters of human security. Overall, the book will provide a clear, systematic and thorough overview of all dimensions of an area of great academic and ‘real-world’ political interest but one that has rarely been set out in an accessible textbook format hitherto. This book will be essential reading for students of environmental studies, critical and human security, global governance, development studies, and IR in general.
Author : Jon Barnett
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856497860
Jon Barnett takes on the military-industrial interests of those in the establishment to reveal how ordinary human beings must have a safe environment in which security is subordinate to care of the planet and its delicate ecosystems.
Author : Karin Dokken,Nina Græger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Environmentalism
ISBN : 8272881624
Author : Saghir Iqbal
Publisher : Saghir Iqbal
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781725532427
The concept of environmental security was introduced in an attempt to expand this conceptualization of security by suggesting that human-induced environmental degradation and demographic pressures are new emerging security problems at the national and international levels. The argument for an environmental security perspective arose from three key observations: environmental threats can have catastrophic outcomes, traditional security thinking does not prepare society to deal with these threats, and, unlike traditional security issues, environmental threats are not confined by national boundaries. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), states that, “Over the last 60 years, at least 40 percent of all internal conflicts have been linked to the exploitation of natural resources”. In addition, “More than two billion people have been affected by disasters and conflicts since 2000”. Common examples of these new threats are climate change and sea level rise, ozone depletion, deforestation, land degradation; over fishing, fresh water scarcity, and increased spread of infectious diseases.
Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring,Hans Günter Brauch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030623166
In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts cover I) peace research epistemology; II) conflicts, families and vulnerable people; III) peacekeeping, peacebuilding and transitional justice; and IV) peace and education. Part I deals with peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, Gandhi’s non-violent policy and disobedient peace. Part II discusses urban climate change, climate rituals, conflicts in Kenya, the sexual abuse of girls, farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria, wartime sexual violence facing refugees, the traditional conflict and peacemakingprocess of Kurdish tribes, Hindustani family shame, and communication with Roma. Part III analyses norms of peacekeeping, violent non-state actors in Brazil, the art of peace in Mexico, grass-roots post-conflict peacebuilding in Sulawesi, hydrodiplomacyin the Indus River Basin, the Rohingya refugee crisis, and transitional justice. Part IV assesses SDGs and peace in India, peace education in Nepal, and infrastructure-based development and peace in West Papua. • Peer-reviewed texts prepared for the 27th Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 2018 in Ahmedabad in India.• Contributions from two pioneers of global peace research:a foreword by Johan Galtung from Norway and a preface by Betty Reardon from the United States.• Innovative case studies by peace researchers on decolonising conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development in the Anthropocene, the new epoch of earth and human history.• New theoretical perspectives by senior and junior scholars from Europe and Latin America on peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, and Gandhi’s non-violence policy.• Case studies on climate change, SDGs and peace in India; conflicts in Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico; Roma in Hungary;the refugee crisis in Bangladesh; peace action in Indonesia and India/Pakistan; and peace education in Nepal.
Author : Richard A. Matthew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:904385043
The literature compiled in this four-volume collection explores the real and potential linkages between environmental change and security. Early formulations of environmental security date to antiquity, whilst contemporary formulations of environment-conflict-peace linkages grew in part from the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The ensuing flood of academic enquiry has been diverse and extensive, and the objective of this major work is to organize this important but polysemous literature in order to provide a comprehensive ...
Author : Richard A. Matthew,Evgenia Nizkorodov,Crystal Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1032149809
Introduction / Richard A. Matthew and Evgenia Nizkorodov -- Defining environmental peacebuilding / Carl Bruch, David Jensen, and Monica Emma -- The geography(ies) of resource wars / Michael T. Klare -- Extractives as a contributor to conflict / Philippe Le Billon -- Land rights and land use as a contributor to conflict / Jon D. Unruh -- Unpacking the complexity of water, war and conflict / Vandana Asthana -- Climate change as a contributor to conflict / Alec Crawford and Clare Church -- Environmental destruction during war / Charles Closmann -- The toxic legacy of war : landmines and explosive remnants of war / Kenneth R. Rutherford and Paige Ober -- The environmental spoils of war / Paivi Lujala, Ashley Hooper, and Maureen J. Purcell -- Population displacement and the environment during war / Evgenia Nizkorodov and Paroma Wagle -- Natural disasters and armed conflict / Colin Walch -- Climate change, public health and the conflict cycle / James Orbinski, Richard A. Matthew, Evgenia Nizkorodov, and Sifat Reazi -- Natural resource governance reform and environmental peacebuilding / Michael D. Beevers -- Urban dimensions of peacebuilding : green infrastructure in Kigali, Rwanda and Freetown, Sierra Leone as a means for more resilient peace / Bemmy Maharramli -- Peace parks in theory and practice : confronting the elephant in the room / Larry A. Swatuk -- Integrating climate change adaptation into peacebuilding / Richard A. Matthew -- A paradigm for actionable and accessible local flood hazard information / Brett F. Sanders, Richard A. Matthew, Adam Luke, Kristen Goodrich, Victoria Basolo, Ana Eguiarte, Danielle Boudreau, and David L. Feldman -- Securitizing the environment / Rita Floyd -- Environmental security discourse in the anthropocene / Simon Dalby -- The environment and human security : a water-food-energy nexus approach / Florian Krampe, Anders Jägerskog, and Ashok Swain -- The environmental security debate in Nepal :a perspective from the South / Bishnu Raj Upreti and Evgenia Nizkorodov -- Environmental peacebuilding at the Tijuana-San Diego border / Kristen A. Goodrich and Kyle Haines -- Gender and environmental security / Silja Halle -- UN environment's contribution to the emerging field of environmental peacebuilding : key policy milestones and lessons learned / David Jensen and Amanda Kron -- Conclusion / Evgenia Nizkorodov and Richard Matthew.
Author : Jürgen Scheffran,Michael Brzoska,Hans Günter Brauch,Peter Michael Link,Janpeter Schilling
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642286261
Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a challenge for the world’s governance structures. But how severe are the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could global warming trigger a sequence of events leading to economic decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent conflict? This book brings together international experts to explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions and cooperative approaches to stabilize the climate-society interaction.
Author : Peter H. Liotta,David A. Mouat,W.G. Kepner,Judith Lancaster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402085512
Environmental and Human Security: Then and Now 1 2 ALAN D. HECHT AND P. H. LIOTTA * 1 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development 2 Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Salve Regina University 1. Nontraditional Threats to Security The events of September 11, 2001 have sharpened the debate over the meaning of being secure. Before 9/11 there were warnings in all parts of the world that social and environmental changes were occurring. While there was prosperity in North America and Western Europe, there was also increasing recognition that local and global effects of ecosystem degradation posed a serious threat. Trekking from Cairo to Cape Town thirty years after living in Africa as a young teacher, for example, travel writer Paul Theroux concluded that development in sub-Saharan Africa had failed to improve the quality of life for 300 million people: “Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it—hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can’t tell the politicians from the witch-doctors” (2002). While scholars and historians will debate the causes of 9/11 for some time, one message is clear: An often dizzying array of nontraditional threats and complex vulnerabilities define security today. We must understand them, and deal with them, or suffer the consequences. Environmental security has always required att- tion to nontraditional threats linked closely with social and economic well-being.
Author : Ashok Swain,Joakim Öjendal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315473758
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of a large body of research examining the linkage between environmental scarcity, violent conflict, and cooperation. However, this environmental security polemic is still trying to deliver a well-defined approach to achieving peace. Studies are being undertaken to find the precise pathways by which cooperative actions are expected not only to pre-empt or moderate resource conflicts but also to help diffuse cooperative behaviour to other disputed issues. The recognition that environmental resources can contribute to violent conflict accentuates their potential significance as pathways for cooperation and the consolidation of peace in post-conflict societies. Conceived as a single and reliable reference source which will be a vital resource for students, researchers, and policy makers alike, the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding presents a wide range of chapters written by key thinkers in the field, organised into four key parts: Part I: Review of the concept and theories; Part II: Review of thematic approaches (resources, scarcity, intervention, adaptation, and peacebuilding); Part III: Case studies (Middle East, Iraq, Jordan, Liberia, Nepal, Colombia, Philippines); Part IV: Analytical challenges and future-oriented perspectives. Enabling the reader to find a concise expert review on topics that are most likely to arise in the course of conducting research or policy making, this volume presents a truly global overview of the key issues and debates in environmental conflict and peacebuilding.
Author : Eileen Petzold-Bradley,Alexander Carius,Arpád Vincze
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401003957
A comprehensive tour d'horizon of the debate on the environment and security, focusing on the various policy options for building peace and preventing environmental conflict. Experts from the areas survey the key environmental challenges in Eastern and Central European states and those of the former Soviet Union, extending the debate to such regions as the Balkans, the Black Sea and Central Europe. This is the first time such extensive case study research has been reported for these regions. Both practical and theoretical approaches to the debate are presented, within a multi-disciplinary framework, the contributors ranging from academic experts involved with peace and conflict research to actual policy makers active in the fields of environmental and security policy. Readership: Experts already working in the relevant disciplines, both academic and governmental, as well as those seeking an introduction to the various policy fields. A graduate-level study text, excellent survey for policy makers and an academic contribution to ongoing studies.
Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring,Hans Günter Brauch,Keith G. Tidball
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319007298
This book has peer-reviewed chapters by scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the USA that were presented to the Ecology and Peace Commission (EPC) of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in November 2012 in Japan. The chapters address these themes: Expanding Peace Ecology – Peace, Security, Sustainability, Equity and Gender; Two Discourses on Global Climate Change Impacts: From Climate Change and Security to Sustainability Transition; Peace Research and Greening in the Red Zone: Community-based Ecological Restoration to Enhance Resilience and Transitions Toward Peace; Social and Environmental Vulnerability in a River Basin of Mexico; Mobile Learning, Rebuilding Community Through Building Communities, Supporting Community Capacities: Post Natural Disaster Experience; Transforming Consciousness through Peace Environmental Education; Building Peace by Rebuilding Community; Ability Expectations and Peace and on Satoyama Sustainability and Peace.