Contemporary Security Studies Alan Collins

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Contemporary Security StudiesAlan Collins

• Deepening and Broadening Security
• Environmental Security

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Introduction
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Environmental Security

• The Origins of a Concept

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Origins of Environmental Security
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Origins of Environmental Security
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Environmental Security

• The Major Interpretations

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Six Interpretations
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Case Study Ecological Security and Human Impacts
Percentage Increases (UNEP 20022005)
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Interpretations of Environmental Security
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Environmental Security

• Environmental Change and Violent Conflict

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Environmental Change and Violent Conflict
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Environmental Security

• Environmental Security and National Security

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Environmental Change and National Security
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Environmental Security

• Environmental Change and the Armed Forces

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Armed Forces and the Environment
The Military and Environmental Problems
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US Environmental Impacts(Dycus 1996
Heininen1994 Renner1991 Seagar1993)
Clean up Operation Costs (US billion)
Total US Co2 Emissions
Total Global Co2 Emissions
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Environmental Security

• Environmental Change and Human Security

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Environmental Change and Human Security
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Consumption Inequality
(UNDP1998)
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Pollution Inequalities
Co2 Emissions
The average person in a developed country
produces the same pollution as 30 people in
developing countries (UNDP1998)
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Unequal Insecurity
Percentage of the 4.4 billion Population in
Developing Countries (UNDP 1998)
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Environmental Security

• Conclusion
• Environmental or Security?

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Environment or Security?

• Environmental security has in some ways
  securitised environmental problems