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UNINA9910815678103321 |
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Autore |
Swain Ashok |
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Titolo |
Understanding emerging security challenges : threats and opportunities / / Ashok Swain |
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New York, NY, : Routledge, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-25450-1 |
1-283-60573-2 |
9786613918185 |
1-136-25451-X |
0-203-10563-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary security studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human security |
Security, International |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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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Understanding Emerging Security Challenges Threats and Opportunities; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 IntroductionEmerging Security Challenges in a Changing World; 2 Resource Scarcity, Climate Change, and Environmental Security; 3 Water WarsConflicts of the Twenty-first Century?; 4 Protecting the ForestPromoting Peace or Conflict?; 5 Achieving Food SecurityA Growing Challenge; 6 Health and SecuritySpecial Focus on HIV/AIDS; 7 Migration and ConflictThe Complex Linkage; 8 ConclusionEncountering Emerging Security Challenges; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era.After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed socio-economic-environmental challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate change, water-sharing issues, deforestation and forest protection measures, food and health security, and large population migration.The book examines the causes and |
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