Environmental Security - Peter Hough

Environmental Security

An Introduction

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Buch | Softcover
158 Seiten
2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-51648-8 (ISBN)
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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.

Peter Hough is Principal Lecturer in International Politics, Middlesex University, UK. He is author of The Global Politics of Pesticides (1998) and Understanding Global Security (2004; 2008; 2013 3rd edn). His research interests are Human Security, Global Environmental Politics, Global health politics, Sport and International Politics, and the Politics of the Arctic.

Part One: The Environment and Security  1.  The Politicization of the Environment  2. The Securitization of Global Environmental Policy  Part Two: The Environment and ‘National’ Security  3. ‘Breeding to Death?’ The Threat Posed by Overpopulation  4. Fighting over the Last Drop?’ Resource Wars and Energy Security  5. ‘The Smog of War’. Military Security and the Environment  6. 'Ultimate Security’. Global Threats from Environmental Change  Part Three: The Environment and Human Security  7. ‘Adapt or Die?’ Climate Change  8. Messy Business. Pollution and Human Security  9. ‘Running on Empty’. Resource Depletion and Biodiversity  10. ‘Learning to Expect the Unexpected’. Natural Disasters  Part Four:  Conclusions 11. Conclusions. To Securitize or Not to Securitize?

Zusatzinfo 3 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 0-415-51648-X / 041551648X
ISBN-13 978-0-415-51648-8 / 9780415516488
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