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UNINA9910778923903321 |
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Autore |
McDonald Matt |
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Titolo |
Security, the environment and emancipation : contestation over environmental change / / Matt McDonald |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-64595-0 |
978-0-415-67160-4 |
9780415671604 |
1-283-44310-4 |
9786613443106 |
0-203-80513-5 |
1-136-64596-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Collana |
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PRIO new security studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Security, International |
Global environmental change |
International relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- The construction of security -- Emancipation -- Brazilian Amazonian deforestation -- Australia and global climate change -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change.The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a concerted attempt in IR to argue that environmental change constituted a threat to security. This book argues that such a notion is problematic as it suggests that a universal definition of security is possible, which prevents a recognition of security as a site of contestation, in which a ra |
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