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...? Environmental Issues To International Security The paper discusses the several environmental issues which are being considered by environmentalist and governments as threats to international environmental security. The four primary issues are detailed in the paper, namely the the terrestrial issues including deforestation and desertification, water issues such as ocean pollution, air issues such as ozone depletion and the Greenhouse Effect, and finally other issues such as nuclear warheads, invasive species and natural disasters. A systematic assessment of the issues of environmental security is rendered and a few...
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...?World Health Organization (WHO) in its report about world’s population projects it to be over 9 billion by 2075. That makes it imperative to start pondering what good or surprises it may bring? In the essay we shall focus on growing human population that consumes decreasing natural resources and causing a higher level of environmental pollution. The article “The Tragedy of the Commons” written by Garrett Hardin, underlines an issue that has gotten relatively less attention. Pollution due to over growth is causing ecological imbalance, endangering not only humans but also other living beings. The absence of a demographic cycle, deteriorating environmental damage and scarcity of natural resources negates the classical theory i.e... Health...
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...,’ Materials Research Society Bulletin, 37, pp. 808-820. Mulligan, S 2010, ‘Energy, Environment, and Security: Critical Links in a Post-Peak World,’ Global Environmental Politics, 10, 4, pp. 79-101. Olz, S, Sims, R, and Kirchner, N 2007, ‘Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security,’ International Energy Agency. Prabakaran, P and Ravindran, AD 2012, ‘Scenedesmus as a potential source of biodiesel among selected microalgae,’ Current Science, 102, 4, pp. 616-621. Richards, G, Noble, B, & Belcher, K 2012, 'Barriers to renewable energy development: A case study of large-scale wind energy in Saskatchewan, Canada', Energy Policy, 42, pp. 691-698, Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 6...
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...? Environmental security Introduction Security of individuals, nations, communities and entire global community is jeopardized increasingly by the unpremeditated and non-military environmental threats. These threats perpetrate through human activities like fouling of water and air. The southern countries suffer from desertification while the northern countries suffer from effects of the acid rain. The Polar Regions experience persistent pollutants caused by the organic chemicals (Balzaqc 2005, p. 171). Environment refers to planetary support system of all the human enterprises. Environmental security translates into cultural, political, religious and social security. The environmental security focuses on the effects and impacts... of...
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...I. Overview of the Environmental Security Debate The weakening significance of superpower conflict in the past decade has provided an impetus to theemergence of flexibility in the notions of national security. Previously constricted to a set of external military dangers, the concept nowadays frequently emphasizes the importance of concerns such as environmental protection, economic progress and global sustainability. The expression 'environmental security' is gradually more finding goodwill within both ordinary practices as well as governmental regulations (Wagner 1997). Environmental security is labeled...
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...I. Overview of the Environmental Security Debate One of the greatest achievements of environmental health in the contemporary period is the inclusion of the notion of environmental security to national security policies hence improving the wellbeing of the environment. However, initially, it is important to discuss and take into analysis the struggle of the environmental security concept to be acknowledged in the limelight of national policies.
The weakening significance of superpower conflict in the past decade has provided an impetus to the emergence of flexibility in the notions of national...
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...From Stockholm to Copenhagen: are such international conferences a viable route to environmental (and hence human) security? International security, which is interrelated with environmental security, is the most important issue in global context. When this issue is superimposed to human security, it becomes the most important threat to the sustenance of human race. Earlier, in the Cold War era, the looming danger of a nuclear war between the US and Russian blocs posed threat on human race. But the split of Russia into a number of independent states in 1990s reduced the scope of a third World War, probably a nuclear war. But now, rapid...
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... of energy therefore a shift in energy source where coal supply will become less will lead to increased demand for natural gas and other environmentally conducive sources of energy.
Analysts say that with the current trends, the import for natural gas will rise approximately by 2015 by 18.5% per annum. This is a huge amount of natural gas import, meaning demand and awareness for clean energy will increase by 2015. Coal will definitely reduce significantly in its demand as well as export. Few countries will opt to import coal from China following the adverse climate change across the globe. The demand and supply of most energy source will solely depend on the climate change and energy security as well. China is hopeful that by 2050... the...
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...to the entire academic work or field. There are two forms of reflexivity, i.e. personal and epistemological reflexivity. Personal reflexivity is in reference to how the beliefs, values, acquaintances and interests of an individual researcher are brought out through their research work. Epistemological reflexivity on the other hand has an attempt of identifying foundations to knowledge and the effects of the research findings. Perspective denotes the context that influences what a person sees and their interpretation of it.
This study is based on the subject of Human Security and Environmental Change. Environmental Change is currently being seen as security problem; this...
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...Homeland Security Department may be very effective, it is clear that psychologically most people still feel insecure. Making trade-offs are only some of the contributing factors because human beings intuitively make some security trade-offs. Sometimes people make wrong trade-offs by exaggerating some of the risks, while reducing others.
A study by Dalby (2002 p. 32) shows that some of the exaggerations with environmental security include the HIV/AIDs mostly found in the developing countries. The developed countries have a poor mentality involving people from the third world countries. These people psychologically fear that people from the third world countries fail...
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