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8. Environmental Security and the Geopolitics of the Anthropocene

verfasst von : Simon Dalby

Erschienen in: International Relations in the Anthropocene

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

No longer can states, corporations or people assume that environmental conditions from the past are a reliable guide as to what to expect in the future. This new environmental context is raising profound questions about how to secure food, water and other environmental necessities and forcing us to reconsider the traditional themes of international relations. Survival and security is not now just about individual states and the dangers they may face from other states; it is now about much more. To explain what this new age of the Anthropocene means for world politics this chapter first turns to the history of environmental security, a term that emerged in the 1980s, and then analyses the problems of living in an increasingly artificial world where decisions over industries and technologies are now key to providing security. The last section of the chapter emphasizes that security and international politics have to be rethought for these new circumstances.

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Metadaten
Titel
Environmental Security and the Geopolitics of the Anthropocene
verfasst von
Simon Dalby
Copyright-Jahr
2021
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_8

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