Security

Security and the Environment

By - Floyd, Rita
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010
ISBN 10 - 0521197562
ISBN 13 - 9780521197564
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - National security
Shelf No - 19
Call Number - 363.7056 FLO
Physical Description - 1 online resource (xiv, 215 pages)
Notes - Includes Index
Book Information
In 1993 the first Clinton administration declared environmental security a national security issue, but by the end of the Bush administrations environmental security had vanished from the government's agenda. This book uses changing US environmental security policy to propose a revised securitisation theory, one that both allows insights into the intentions of key actors and enables moral evaluations in the environmental sector of security. Security and the Environment brings together the subject of environmental security and the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory. Drawing on original interviews with former key players in United States environmental security, Rita Floyd makes a significant and original contribution to environmental security studies and security studies more generally. This book will be of interest to international relations scholars and political practitioners concerned with security, as well as students of international environmental politics and US policy-making.

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