{"product_id":"environmental-security-a-guide-to-the-issues-praeger-security-international-9780313391514","title":"Environmental Security A Guide to the Issues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely volume presents the key concepts, issues, and debates surrounding environmental security, illustrating through a range of examples and cases how global environmental matters and international security are closely linked.\u003cbr\u003eIssues of climate change, dwindling resources, natural disaster, and disease that comprise environmental security are at the forefront of global politics and the media today. \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Security: A Guide to the Issues\u003c\/i\u003e is a primer for anyone attuned to these threats. This well-reasoned, thought-provoking volume establishes and updates the connection between global environmental problems and international security, describing existing theories of environmental security and illustrating them with evidence from present-day global ecological realities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecifically, the book shows readers how both shortages and abundance of natural resources such as fresh water, oil and natural gas, and diamonds and timber can contribute to conflic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA useful overview for beginning researchers. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword by Stacy VanDeveer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/b\u003e Historical and Current Overview of the Issue \u003cb\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/b\u003e Natural Resources \u003cb\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/b\u003e Food Security \u003cb\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/b\u003e Climate Change \u003cb\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/b\u003e Collateral Damage \u003cb\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/b\u003e Conclusion: Ecological Thinking \u003ci\u003eAppendix I: Biographies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppendix II: Key Documents\u003c\/i\u003e Stockholm Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 16 June 1972 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 14 June 1992 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, 18 May 1977 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977 The Carter Doctrine, 1980 An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security (Executive Summary), 2003 \u003ci\u003eFurther Resources\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABC-CLIO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017763225943,"sku":"9780313391514","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780313391514.jpg?v=1750774586","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/environmental-security-a-guide-to-the-issues-praeger-security-international-9780313391514","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}