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Violent conflict, climate change, and poverty present distinct
threats to women worldwide. Importantly, women are leading the way
creating and sharing sustainable solutions. Women's security is a
valuable analytical tool as well as a political agenda insofar as
it addresses the specific problems affecting women's ability to
live dignified, free, and secure lives. First, this collection
focuses on how conflict impacts women's lives and well-being,
including rape and gendered constructions of ethnicity, race, and
religion. The book's second section looks beyond the scope of
large-scale violence to examine human security in terms of
environmental policy, food, water, health, and economics.
Multidisciplinary in scope, these essays from new and established
contributors draw from gender studies, international relations,
criminology, political science, economics, sociology, biological
and ecological sciences, and planning.
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.
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.
The Codex epistolaris Carolinus preserves ninety-nine letters,
dated between 739 and 791 and sent by the popes to the Frankish
king Charlemagne and his predecessors. The compilation was
commissioned by Charlemagne in 791, but the sole surviving medieval
manuscript of the letters was made at Cologne in the later ninth
century and is now in Vienna (OEsterreichische Nationalbibliothek
Cod. 449). The headings or lemmata provided for each letter by the
Frankish compilers in 791 and faithfully preserved in the codex,
add a distinctive Frankish commentary on events in Rome and Italy
in the second half of the eighth century. This book not only
provides the first full English translation of the letters and
lemmata in the Codex epistolaris Carolinus but also re-creates the
original Carolingian order of presentation of the letters according
to the manuscript. A substantial introduction discusses the
historical significance of the collection, the compilation and
contexts of the Vienna manuscript, especially the significance of
the lemmata, the peculiarities of the Latin of the papal letters
and the biblical citations, and the historical context of the
letters themselves. The lemmata and letter translations are
augmented with introductions to each letter and a comprehensive
historical commentary and glossary.
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Plants Help Us Grow (Paperback)
Shane Peter Richards; Illustrated by Matthew Richards
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