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Globalization and Environmental Challenges : Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-75977-5

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This book contiants chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security; discuss the relationship between security, peace, development and environment; review the reconceptualization of security in philosophy, international law, economics and political science and for the political, military, economic, social and environmental security dimension and the adaptation of the institutional security concepts of the UN, EU and NATO; analyze the reconceptualization of regional security and alternative security futures and draw conclusions for future research and action.


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science / Global Security / climate change / environment / environmental change / global environmental change / globalization / political concepts / security / Environmental Law / Policy / Ecojustice / Political Science / Geography, general / Environmental Economics