Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity
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Accelerating social, economic, and environmental pressures are now undermining the security of societies around the world, according to security expert Michael Renner. Since the end of the Cold War, a volatile mix of environmental degradation, inequitable distribution of land and wealth, ethnic antagonisms, and rapid population growth is producing social and political strife, and even causing the wholesale disintegration of countries.
The author argues that true security has less to do with how many tanks or soldiers a country can marshal and more with how well it protects its arable lands and watersheds and how well it manages to meet peoples social and economic needs. Military means are often irrelevant or even counterproductive in this new security equation; they are a depreciating asset. At a time when the United Nations has been devoting a sharply higher share of its resources to peacekeeping, while reducing spending on basic environmental and economic development, this new book provides a wake-up call for policy makers around the world.
The author argues that true security has less to do with how many tanks or soldiers a country can marshal and more with how well it protects its arable lands and watersheds and how well it manages to meet peoples social and economic needs. Military means are often irrelevant or even counterproductive in this new security equation; they are a depreciating asset. At a time when the United Nations has been devoting a sharply higher share of its resources to peacekeeping, while reducing spending on basic environmental and economic development, this new book provides a wake-up call for policy makers around the world.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393315681
ISBN13:9780393315684
Release Date:October 1996
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:242 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"
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Sustainable development must take the security front seat!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
The best guarantee to ensuring lasting security in today's increasingly global community is for policy makers worldwide to match resource allocation to social needs. In so doing, national security concerns will be better served and social instability reduced. This book strikes the right chord in the post Cold-War era!
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