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Environmental Security in Latin America (Hardcover)
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Environmental Security in Latin America (Hardcover)
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This book examines security in Latin America through an
environmental lens, at a time when this region faces a broad and
growing spectrum of threats. The book considers the backdrop
against which security debates about Latin America have been
conducted; the extent to which scholarship has been dominated by
traditional US strategic concerns; and how, in the changing context
at the end of the Cold War, some policymakers within Latin America
itself at both national and regional levels began to reposition
security. It argues that traditional security scholarship focusing
on military defence and strategic affairs in this region is hard to
explain and out of date, and offers reasons why a new focus on
environmental threats within a broader human security perspective
has much to offer this field. Such a focus is justified by the
scale of the challenges that environmental degradation is posing in
Latin America, and the very real impact of climate change there.
The book considers how the various theoretical possibilities of the
term 'environmental security' all have some potential application
to this region, where the natural environment is rapidly being
securitized by military forces on behalf of their states. Finally,
it proposes that a fruitful approach to Latin America might be one
where human and environmental security have parity. This book will
be of interest to students of environmental security, Latin
American security, human geography and IR in general.
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