Environmental Security: A Guide to the Issues

Environmental Security: A Guide to the Issues
ISBN-10
0313391513
ISBN-13
9780313391514
Series
Environmental Security
Category
Political Science
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Author
Elizabeth L. Chalecki

Description

This timely volume presents the key concepts, issues, and debates surrounding environmental security, illustrating through a range of examples and cases how global environmental matters and international security are closely linked. * Wide-ranging cases and examples, from climate change to energy to water * Primary source documents * A chronology * A glossary * A bibliography

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