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Contested grounds : security and conflict in the new environmental politics / edited by Daniel H. Deudney and Richard A. Matthew.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in international environmental policy and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy.
- Security, International--Environmental aspects.
- Security, International.
- Geopolitics.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- The book puts the contemporary debate in historical and theoretical perspective by demonstrating the important, but overlooked, role that environmental factors have placed in historical developments and in earlier geopolitical theories. The contributors present diverse and often conflicting answers to three questions: What are the relationships between environmental change, degradation and protection and traditional natural security concepts and organizations? How useful are security concepts and organizations in mobilizing political responses to environmental problems? What role do environmental factors play in stimulating international conflict and cooperation?
- Contents:
- Introduction: mapping contested grounds / Richard A. Matthew
- Bringing nature back in: geopolitical theory from the Greeks to the global era / Daniel H. Deudney
- Thresholds of turmoil: environmental scarcities and violent conflict / Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
- A realist's conceptual definition of environmental security / Michel Frédérick
- The case for DOD involvement in environmental security / Kent Hughes Butts
- The case for comprehensive security / Eric K. Stern
- Threats from the south? geopolitics, equity, and environmental security / Simon Dalby
- Environmental security: a critique / Daniel H. Deudney
- Transboundary resource disputes and their resolution / Miriam R. Lowi
- Imminent political conflicts arising from China's population crisis / Jack A. Goldstone
- Out of focus: U.S. military satellites and environmental rescue / Ronald J. Deibert
- Conclusion: settling contested grounds / Richard A. Matthew.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791441156
- 0791441164
- OCLC:
- 40193549
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