Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice (Routledge Critical Security Studies)

Hardt, Judith Nora

ISBN 10: 113870489X / ISBN 13: 9781138704893

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice (Routledge Critical Security Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113870489X
• ISBN 13: 9781138704893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book provides a critical assessment of the theories and practice of environmental security in the context of the Anthropocene.

The work analyses the intellectual foundations, the evolution and different interpretations, strengths and potential of the link between environment and security, but also its weaknesses, incoherencies and distortions. To do so, it employs a critical environmental security studies analytical framework and uniquely places this analysis within the context of the Anthropocene. Furthermore, the book examines the practice–theory divide, and the political implementation of the environmental security concept in response to global environmental change and in relation to different actors. It pays significant attention to the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC), which is led by different programs of the United Nations, the OSCE and until recently by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), among others, and has largely been overlooked in the academic literature to date. The goal is to study how environmental security practice could inform and shape the environmental security theory, and also to explore how, conversely, new theoretical insights could contribute to the enhancement of environmental security activities.

This book will be of great interest to students and academic scholars of Environmental Security, Critical Security Studies, Green Political Theory, Global Governance and International Relations in general.

About the Author

Judith Nora Hardt is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of the Basque Country, Spain.