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Security and Environmental Change

Security and Environmental Change

Dalby, Simon

Paperback

Series: Dimensions of Security

Business General

ISBN10: 0745642926
ISBN13: 9780745642925
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

In the early years of the new millennium, hurricanes lashed the Caribbean and flooded New Orleans as heat waves and floods seemed to alternate in Europe. Snows were disappearing on Mount Kilimanjaro while the ice caps on both poles retreated. The resulting disruption caused to many societies and the potential for destabilizing international migration has meant that the environment has become a political priority.The scale of environmental change caused by globalization is now so large that security has to be understood as an ecological process. A new geopolitics is long overdue.

In this book Simon Dalby provides an accessible and engaging account of the challenges we face in responding to security and environmental change. He traces the historical roots of current concerns about security and climate change and outlines modern thinking about securitization, which uses the politics of invoking threats as a central part of the analysis. To understand climate change and the dislocations of global ecology, he argues, it is necessary to look back at how ecological change is tied to the expansion of the world economic system over the last few centuries. As the global urban system changes on a local and global scale, the world's population becomes vulnerable in new ways. In a clear and careful analysis, Dalby shows that theories of human security now require a much more nuanced geopolitical imagination if they are to grapple with these new vulnerabilities and influence how we build more resilient societies to cope with the coming disruptions.

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