Understanding emerging security challenges : threats and opportunities / Ashok Swain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swain, Ashok.

Series:

Contemporary Security Studies

Contemporary security studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human security.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era.After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed socio-economic-environmental challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate change, water-sharing issues, deforestation and forest protection measures, food and health security, and large population migration.The book examines the causes and consequences of these emerging secu

Contents:

Understanding Emerging Security Challenges Threats and Opportunities; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 IntroductionEmerging Security Challenges in a Changing World; 2 Resource Scarcity, Climate Change, and Environmental Security; 3 Water WarsConflicts of the Twenty-first Century?; 4 Protecting the ForestPromoting Peace or Conflict?; 5 Achieving Food SecurityA Growing Challenge; 6 Health and SecuritySpecial Focus on HIV/AIDS; 7 Migration and ConflictThe Complex Linkage; 8 ConclusionEncountering Emerging Security Challenges; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-25450-1

1-283-60573-2

9786613918185

1-136-25451-X

0-203-10563-X

9780203105634

OCLC:

811506228