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Autore: | Swain Ashok |
Titolo: | Understanding emerging security challenges : threats and opportunities / / Ashok Swain |
Pubblicazione: | New York, NY, : Routledge, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
Disciplina: | 355/.033 |
Soggetto topico: | Human security |
Security, International | |
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: | 1-136-25450-1 |
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.: | 9910815678103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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