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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778923903321

Autore

McDonald Matt

Titolo

Security, the environment and emancipation : contestation over environmental change / / Matt McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-64595-0

978-0-415-67160-4

9780415671604

1-283-44310-4

9786613443106

0-203-80513-5

1-136-64596-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

PRIO new security studies

Disciplina

355/.033

Soggetti

Security, International

Global environmental change

International relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The construction of security -- Emancipation -- Brazilian Amazonian deforestation -- Australia and global climate change -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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