Natural Resources and Social Conflict [electronic resource] : Towards Critical Environmental Security /
Schnurr, M.editor.
Swatuk, L.editor.
This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of environmental (in)security.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Notes on Contributors; List of Acronyms; 1 Towards Critical Environmental Security; 2 What Are We Really Looking For? From Eco-Violence to Environmental Injustice; 3 Climatic Security and the Tipping Point Conception of the Earth System; 4 Insecurities of Non-Dominance: Re-Theorizing Human Security and Environmental Change in Developed States; 5 Water and Security in Africa: State-Centric Narratives, Human Insecurities; 6 Avoiding the Resource Curse in Ghana: Assessing the Options
7 Sexual Violence, Coltan and the Democratic Republic of Congo8 Official Secrets and Popular Delusions: Security at the End of the Fossil Fuel Age?; 9 Securing Alberta's Tar Sands: Resistance and Criminalization on a New Energy Frontier; 10 The State-Corporate Nexus: Trading Social Benefits for Environmental Costs and Localized Vulnerability; 11 Bodies on the Line: The In/Security of Everyday Life in Aamjiwnaang; Afterword: Ecoviolence, Security, Geopolitics; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of environmental (in)security.
Political economy.
Political science.
Politics and war.
Environmental policy.
Political sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
International Political Economy.
Political Science.
Military and Defence Studies.
Environmental Politics.
Political Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.