The Meaning of Environmental Security

Concern over environmental degradation has impacted in many other areas, including notions of security in international relations. The problem, as this author cogently argues, is that the concept of environmental security, which has become so popular since the end of the Cold War, has been highjacked by traditionalist scholars and the military. They take it to mean simply that environmental problems can threaten national security. They worry about a new generation of violent conflicts growing out of struggles over scarce natural resources. This book suggests a more humane and radical interpretation: environmental security should be seen as only one dimension of the wider problem of human security where the livelihoods, health and welfare of people are being undermined by environmental degradation.

ISBN 1856497860   Pages 192 ISBN13 9781856497862 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Zed Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 227 Imprint Zed Books Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 01 Jan 2001   Width (mm) 138 Library of Congress 00043616   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 363.7056   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Abbreviations
		Acknowledgements
1		Locating Environmental Security		1
2		Environmental Insecurity: Ecological Exacerbations of Underdevelopment		12
3		Security: From What and for Whom?		23
4		New Security Issues: The Old Guard Looks for New Targets		33
5		Environmental Degradation and Conflict: Conscripting the Voice of Dissent		50
6		Policies for Pollution and the Pollution of Policy		71
7		The Biggest of Institutional Challenges: The Military		92
8		Ecological Security: An Alternative Security Strategy		108
9		Environmental Security for People		122
10		Towards Environmental Security		139
		Bibliography		161
		Index		177

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