Journal article
Environmental Security: Securing What for Whom?
Social Alternatives, Vol.23(4), pp.23-28
2004
Abstract
In recent decades, environment security issues have been raised in relation to growing concerns about environmental change. Predominantly North geopolitical concerns about the impacts of environmentally-caused conflicts upon national sovereignty and the destruction of the global commons associated with comprehensive security have largely dominated policies and practices associated with environmental security issues to date. However, criticisms directed towards these two approaehes focus on their failure to address the causes of inequality and injustice that underpin poverty and environmental degradation at local and global levels. An alternative approach to environmental security challenges the assumptions that underpin comprehensive and geopolitical environmental security, and places the social and environmental welfare ofthe majority poor at the centre of any strategies that deal with environmental change.
Details
- Title
- Environmental Security: Securing What for Whom?
- Authors
- Elizabeth Eddy (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Social Alternatives, Vol.23(4), pp.23-28
- Publisher
- Social Alternatives
- Date published
- 2004
- ISSN
- 0155-0306
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2004 Social Alternatives. Reproduced with the permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448809102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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