Understanding emerging security challenges : threats and opportunities / / Ashok Swain

• Autore: Swain Ashok
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Routledge, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 355/.033
• Soggetto topico: Human security; Security, International
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 consequences of these emerging secu
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding emerging security challenges
• ISBN: 1-283-60573-2; 9786613918185; 1-136-25451-X; 0-203-10563-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462421503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Security Studies