Environmental change, natural resources and social conflict

Environmental change, natural resources and social conflict

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This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of environmental (in)security. MATTHEW SCHNURR Assistant Professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is an environmental geographer who publishes in the areas of environment and development, political ecology, and agricultural technologies, with a regional focus on east and southern Africa. LARRY A. SWATUKAssociate Professor and Director of the InternationalDevelopment Program in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at University of Waterloo, Canada. INDICE: Introduction: Towards Critical Environmental Security; 'M.Schnurr '&' L.Swatuk - 'What Are We Really Looking For? From Eco-violence to Environmental Injustice; 'P.Stoett - 'Climatic Security and the Tipping Point Conception of the Earth System; 'C.Russill - 'Insecurities of Non-Dominance: Re-Theorizing Human Security and Environmental Change in Developed States; 'W.Greaves - 'Water and Security in Africa: State-Centric Narratives, Human Insecurities; 'L.Swatuk - 'Avoiding the Resource Curse in Ghana: Assessing the Options;' P.Arthur - 'Sexual Violence, Coltan and the Democratic Republic of Congo; 'S.Whitman - ''The Elephant in the Room?' Peak Oil on the Security Agenda; 'S.Mulligan- 'Dirty Security? Tar Sands, Energy Security and Environmental Violence; 'P.Le Billon' &' A.Carter - 'Loud Bangs and Quiet Canadians: An analysis of oil patch sabotage in British Columbia, Canada; 'C.Arsenault - 'Bodies on the Line:The In/Security of Everyday Life in Aamjiwnaang; 'S.Wiebe - 'Afterward: Ecoviolence, Security, Geopolitics; 'S.Dalby - ' -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-29783-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 264
  • Fecha Publicación: 23/03/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés