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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.
When is it permissible to move an issue out of normal politics and
treat it as a security issue? How should the security measures be
conducted? When and how should the securitization be reversed?
Floyd offers answers to these questions by combining security
studies' influential securitization theory with philosophy's
long-standing just war tradition, creating a major new approach to
the ethics of security: 'Just Securitization Theory'. Of interest
to anyone concerned with ethics and security, Floyd's innovative
approach enables scholars to normatively evaluate past and present
securitizations, equips practitioners to make informed judgements
on what they ought to do in relevant situations, and empowers the
public to hold relevant actors accountable for how they view
security.
In 1993 the first Clinton administration declared environmental
security a national security issue, but by the end of the Bush
administrations environmental security had vanished from the
government's agenda. This book uses changing US environmental
security policy to propose a revised securitisation theory, one
that both allows insights into the intentions of key actors and
enables moral evaluations in the environmental sector of security.
Security and the Environment brings together the subject of
environmental security and the Copenhagen School s securitisation
theory. Drawing on original interviews with former key players in
United States environmental security, Rita Floyd makes a
significant and original contribution to environmental security
studies and security studies more generally. This book will be of
interest to international relations scholars and political
practitioners concerned with security, as well as students of
international environmental politics and US policy-making."
In 1993 the first Clinton administration declared environmental
security a national security issue, but by the end of the Bush
administrations environmental security had vanished from the
government's agenda. This book uses changing US environmental
security policy to propose a revised securitisation theory, one
that both allows insights into the intentions of key actors and
enables moral evaluations in the environmental sector of security.
Security and the Environment brings together the subject of
environmental security and the Copenhagen School s securitisation
theory. Drawing on original interviews with former key players in
United States environmental security, Rita Floyd makes a
significant and original contribution to environmental security
studies and security studies more generally. This book will be of
interest to international relations scholars and political
practitioners concerned with security, as well as students of
international environmental politics and US policy-making.
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