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Autore: | McDonald Matt |
Titolo: | Security, the environment and emancipation : contestation over environmental change / / Matt McDonald |
Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina: | 355/.033 |
Soggetto topico: | Security, International |
Global environmental change | |
International relations | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Security, the environment and emancipation |
ISBN: | 1-136-64595-0 |
978-0-415-67160-4 | |
9780415671604 | |
1-283-44310-4 | |
9786613443106 | |
0-203-80513-5 | |
1-136-64596-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819446703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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