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The Securitisation of Climate Change and the Governmentalisation of Security (New Security Challenges)
by Franziskus von LuckeThis book provides an in-depth analysis of the securitisation of climate change in the US, Germany and Mexico and offers a rethinking of securitisation theory. Resting on a Foucauldian governmentality approach, it discusses how different climate security discourses have transformed the political handling of climate change and affected policies, practices and institutions. Going beyond the literature’s predominant focus on the global level, it gives a fine-grained examination of the political and institutional changes in different national contexts. Drawing on the governmentalisation of security, the book develops a new understanding of securitisation that focuses on the role of power. In doing so, it provides new insights into the transformative potential of linking climate change to security but also highlights the political and normative pitfalls of securitisation. ‘In this important book, Franziskus von Lucke provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich account of the relationship between security and climate change. Developing a Foucauldian-inspired account of securitization, the book rejects blanket or universal claims about the climate change- security relationship, instead insisting on the need to critically examine how the securitization of climate change plays out in particular empirical contexts. Exploring the cases of the US, Germany and Mexico, von Lucke points to distinctive dynamics of securitization in these settings, with different implications for the practices these in turn encourage. Ultimately, this book constitutes an important addition to literature on the relationship between climate change and security, while developing a distinct and nuanced account of securitization that will be of interest to a wide range of scholars of security in international relations.’—Associate Professor Matt McDonald is a Reader in International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia ‘In 2019 a number of states and other actors (notably the European Union) have made climate emergency declarations. It is therefore more important than ever to understand what the securitization of the climate means. That is: Who can securitize? What security measures are likely/ deemed legitimate by relevant audiences? How does securitization affect the population within and outside a securitizing state? And perhaps most importantly of all, will it succeed? Franziskus von Lucke’s carefully researched book offers answers to all of these questions and many others besides. von Lucke proceeds by examining with the US, Mexico and Germany, three real-life empirical cases of climate securitization. Each one provides unique insights that enable a fuller understanding of climate security. Accessibly written this is a must read for scholars and practitioners alike.’ —Dr Rita Floyd, University of Birmingham, UK, author of The Morality of Security: A theory of just Securitization, CUP, 2019 With great empirical detail and conceptual clarity, the book compares discourses and practices of climate security in different contexts. An essential reading for anyone interested in international climate politics, securitization theory, governmentality and the notion of power in International Relations. —Dr Delf Rothe, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg at the University of Hamburg, Germany
The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - #2013)
by Michael Durant ThomasThis book examines the process of climate securitization within the United States and Australian political-military sector between 2003 - 2013. Drawing on established securitization frameworks ("Copenhagen" and "Paris" Schools), the author uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques to systematically analyze more than 3,500 official publications from the US and Australian political-military sector. The results offers a rare insight into how each military framed climate change as a security threat and formulated their own unique institutional responses within a heavily politicized context. The book consists of eight chapters divided into four parts; focusing on: perspectives/methodological insights; empirical case studies; case study comparison and concluding observations.
Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade
by Rosaleen DuffyAn exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns &“There are few keener observers of international biodiversity conservation than Rosaleen Duffy. With a ferocity of purpose, she investigates the tenuous connection and nuances among illegal wildlife trade, terrorism threats, and national security.&”—Steven R. Brechin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Debates regarding environmental security risks have generally focused on climate change and geopolitical water conflicts. Biodiversity conservation, however, is increasingly identified as a critical contributor to national and global security. The illegal wildlife trade is often articulated as a driver of biodiversity losses, and as a source of finance for organized crime networks, armed groups, and even terrorist networks. Conservationists, international organizations, and national governments have raised concerns about &“convergence&” of wildlife trafficking with other serious offenses, including theft, fraud, corruption, drugs and human trafficking, counterfeiting, firearms smuggling, and money laundering. In Security and Conservation, Rosaleen Duffy examines the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns. Duffy takes a political ecology approach to develop a deeper understanding of how and why wildlife conservation turned toward security‑oriented approaches to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
Security and Sovereignty in the North Atlantic
by Lassi HeininenThe North Atlantic continues to be an area of international strategic significance regionally and globally. This study explores the strong processes of sovereignty, as well as new independent states and micro-proto-states that are forming in the region.
Security and the Environment
by Rita FloydIn 1993 the first Clinton administration declared environmental security a national security issue, but by the end of the Bush administrations environmental security had vanished from the government's agenda. This book uses changing US environmental security policy to propose a revised securitisation theory, one that both allows insights into the intentions of key actors and enables moral evaluations in the environmental sector of security. Security and the Environment brings together the subject of environmental security and the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory. Drawing on original interviews with former key players in United States environmental security, Rita Floyd makes a significant and original contribution to environmental security studies and security studies more generally. This book will be of interest to international relations scholars and political practitioners concerned with security, as well as students of international environmental politics and US policy-making.
Security Management for Occupational Safety (Occupational Safety & Health Guide Series #15)
by Michael LandHow far would or should you go to feel secure? While everyone wants safety and security, the measures to achieve it are often viewed of as intrusive, unwanted, a hassle, and limiting to personal and professional freedoms. Yet, when an incident occurs, we can never have enough security. Security Management for Occupational Safety provides a framewor
The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities
by Basant Maheshwari Ramesh Purohit Hector Malano Vijay P. Singh Priyanie AmerasingheThe population of cities around the world is growing at an alarming rate, and as a result the landscapes of most cities are going through enormous changes. In particular, fertile agricultural lands at the periphery of cities are being developed without consideration of holistic planning. As such, peri-urban areas, zones of transition from rural to urban land uses located between the outer limits of the urban and the rural environment are experiencing significant losses of agricultural land, increased runoff, and water quality degradation. Concurrently, the demands for water, food and energy are increasing within cities, and unless a balance is struck the liveability of these cities will soon be compromised. The current water and land use changes have serious consequences on lifestyle, environment, health and overall well-being of urban communities. This book therefore helps readers to understand the current issues and challenges and examines suitable strategies and practices to cope with current and future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land-use changes. The book examines a number of critical aspects in relation to the future of cities and peri-urban regions, including the suitability of policies and institutions to sustain cities into the future; impact of current trends in land use change, population increase and water demand; long term planning needs and approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and strategies to adapt the cities and land uses so that they remain viable and liveable. The readership of the book will include policy makers, urban planners, researchers, post-graduate students in urban planning and environmental and water resources management and managers in municipal councils.
Security, the Environment and Emancipation: Contestation over Environmental Change (PRIO New Security Studies)
by Matt McDonaldThis book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change. The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a concerted attempt in IR to argue that environmental change constituted a threat to security. This book argues that such a notion is problematic as it suggests that a universal definition of security is possible, which prevents a recognition of security as a site of contestation, in which a range of actors articulate alternative visions of who or what is in need of being secured. If security is understood and approached in traditional terms - as the territorial preservation of the nation-state from external threat - then it is indeed difficult to see how environmental issues would benefit from being placed on states’ security agenda. If, however, security is defined in terms of the emancipation of the most vulnerable individuals from contingent structural oppressions, then drawing a relationship between environmental change and security may be beneficial for redressing those environmental issues and prioritising the needs of those most at risk from the manifestations of global environmental change. This book takes the limitations of contemporary approaches to the relationship between the environment and security as its starting point, and seeks to do two things. First, it aims to illustrate the ways in which arguments over approaches to environmental issues can be viewed as contestation over the meaning of 'security‘ in particular political contexts. Central here is the composition and assumptions of the dominant security discourse to emerge regarding those issues: a framework of meaning for the most important forms of action on behalf of a particular group, defining the terms for meaningful contestation and negotiation about security itself within that group. As such, the book attempts to illustrate the dynamics of competition over the meaning of security with reference to environmental issues, particularly focusing on instances of political change in the dominant security discourse through which that issue is approached. In the process the author points to the central role of these dominant security discourses in underpinning the most practically significant actions regarding environmental issues such as deforestation and global climate change. The book employs methodological tools that enable a focus on how particular frameworks of meaning are constituted and become dominant; how they provide a lens through which various issues are approached; and how discourses most consistent with redressing environmental change and the suffering of the most vulnerable might come to provide the framework through which security is viewed in particular contexts. This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies, geography, sociology, IR and Political Science in general.
Sed: Imagina un mundo donde el agua es para todos / Thirst
by Varsha BajajBestseller del New York Times. La fascinante historia de una niña heroica que pelea por su convicción de que el agua debería ser para todos. Minni vive en la zona más pobre de Bombay, donde el acceso al agua está limitado a unas cuantas horas al día y en las llaves comunales hay largas filas. Aunque, últimamente, hasta ese poco acceso se ve amenazado por terribles cortes en el suministro y ladrones que roban el preciado bien, un acto que Minni atestigua por accidente una noche. Mientras tanto, en el rascacielos donde acaba de empezar a trabajar, descubre que sale agua de cada grifo y hay incluso una alberca en la azotea. Pero Minni también descubre ahí a uno de los jefes de la mafia del agua. Ahora debe decidir si exponerlo y poner en riesgo su trabajo, y hasta su vida. ¿Cómo algo tan sencillo como tener acceso al agua puede ser tan complicado?
Sediment Dredging at SUPERFUND MEGASITES: Assessing the Effectiveness
by National Research Council of the National AcademiesThe National Academies Press (NAP)--publisher for the National Academies--publishes more than 200 books a year offering the most authoritative views, definitive information, and groundbreaking recommendations on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. Our books are unique in that they are authored by the nation's leading experts in every scientific field.
Sediment Fluxes in Coastal Areas
by Mohamed Maanan Marc RobinThis book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting sediments fluxes from watershed to worldwide coastal systems. The volume provides a comprehensive overview and constitutes a systematic description of the response of coastal systems to global and local changes, like climate change, sea level, land use and land cover change. The case studies cover a sequence of coastal environments such as lagoons, bays, estuaries, deltas and beaches. Sediment Fluxes in Coastal Areas is designed for researchers, professionals and for course-use in hydrology, oceanography, geography, geology, geomorphology and environmental science.
See America: A Celebration of Our National Parks & Treasured Sites
by National Parks Conservation Association Creative Action NetworkTo coincide with the 2016 centennial anniversary of the National Parks Service, the Creative Action Network has partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association to revive and reimagine the legacy of WPA travel posters. Artists from all over the world have participated in the creation of this new, crowdsourced collection of See America posters for a modern era. Featuring artwork for 75 national parks and monuments across all 50 states, this engaging ebook celebrates the full range of our nation's landmarks and treasured wilderness.
See How They Grow: Forest (See How They Grow)
by DKSee how young forest animals grow and change in the first weeks and months of their lives with this educational children&’s book series for little nature lovers.Meet a playful squirrel, a furry fox, and a delightful deer fawn and watch how they grow. Exquisite photography captures and follows the early lives of children&’s favorite woodland animals.This series of animal books for children boasts: • Three 24-page books, each including five different young animals at different stages of their early lives • Will instill in young readers a lifelong love of animals, nature and books • The books in this series may be bought individually or packaged together in an elegant, durable slipcase Everyone loves little animals and this educational book is a must for fans of furry forest creatures and would make an excellent children&’s gift. Elegant and filled with beautiful photography, children can follow baby animals through their early lives — from helpless newborns to confident, curious creatures on the cusp of adulthood.A series of photographs show each animal at different stages in its early life. See an owl hatch from its egg, a mouse before it has fur, and foxes learning to hunt. These books are a delight to read together or aloud to preschool children or for young readers to pick up themselves, which has many early learning benefits including language development. Perfect for children ages 3–5, this nature book captures in beautiful detail how children&’s favorite forest animals grow and develop. Learning about how animals grow and change is a topic often covered as part of the early childhood and kindergarten curriculums. Want to gift your little one the full book set? Add See How They Grow: Farm Animals and See How They Grow: Pets to complete the set.
See It with a Small Telescope: 101 Cosmic Wonders Including Planets, Moons, Comets, Galaxies, Nebulae, Star Clusters and More
by Will KalifHave Fun Exploring the Stars with Close-up Views of Space Objects Right from Your Own BackyardTake the mystery and struggle out of discovering new worlds. With hands-on tips, tricks and instructions, this book allows you to unleash the full power of your small telescope and view amazing space objects right from your own backyard, including:• Saturn&’s Rings• Jupiter&’s Moons• Apollo 11's Landing Site• Orion Nebula• Andromeda Galaxy• Polaris Double Star• Pegasus Globular Cluster• And much, much more!
See You at the Campground: A Guide to Discovering Community, Connection, and a Happier Family in the Great Outdoors
by Stephanie Puglisi Jeremy PuglisiA family-friendly guide for camping with kids and infants — because the best memories are the ones made around the campfire.Road trips with kids aren't easy, but new parents of twins Stephanie and Jeremy Puglisi became experts at creating lasting family memories without breaking the bank. Whether you're new to camping or a seasoned pro, hit the road with Stephanie and Jeremy, hosts of the popular The RV Atlas podcast, as they show you the different ways that camping can lead to a happier, healthier family. From hiking with infants to navigating RV camping in state parks and camping in national parks—these outdoor lovers have tried it all, and See You at the Campground is a beautifully illustrated camping book for adults packed with personal anecdotes, packing lists, site recommendations, and recipes that will help you create a one-of-a-kind vacation on a family-friendly budget.Tips include:Reasons camping vacations are betterBuying an RVTrip planning tipsRoad trip tipsCampground etiquetteCamping with family and friendsNational park adventuresThe perfect resource for parents—and a great gift for campers at any level—this is the ultimate family vacation book to bring the family closer every time you set up camp—whether it's in a cabin, tent, or RV.
See You Soon, Samantha
by Lara BergenFollow best friends Liza, Samantha, and Mina as they spend their first summer apart--and try to find the perfect souvenirs for one another. Without her friends, Samantha feels lost at the beach, but maybe that's where she'll find herself.
Seecatch: A Story of a Fur Seal
by Rutherford MontgomeryThis book tells the story of a young fur seal called Seecatch. He is born on St. Paul Island off the coast of Alaska, where many seals go each year to spend the summer on land, though in other seasons they travel the world, living entirely in water. Seecatch learns about the world, his enemies, and finding food, and each year he returns to his home, until he is large and old enough to find his own spot on the island to start his family.
Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman
by Esme Raji Codell<p>His real name was John Chapman. He grew apples. <p>But wait. So what? Why should we remember him? And read about him? And think about him? And talk about him today, more than two hundred years after he was born? Why should we call him a hero? <p>Esme Raji Codell and Lynne Rae Perkins show us, in eloquent words and exhilarating pictures, why Johnny Appleseed matters now, perhaps more than ever, in our loud and wired and fast-paced world.</p>
Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John Appleseed Chapman (Into Reading, Read Aloud Module 5 #1)
by Lynne Perkins Esmé CodellNIMAC-sourced textbook
A Seed Grows
by Antoinette PortisThe transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out in this bold read-aloud by Sibert honoree Antoinette Portis. <p><p>To understand how a seed becomes a sunflower, you have to peek beneath the soil and wait patiently as winding roots grow, a stalk inches out of the earth, and new seeds emerge among blooming petals. <p><p>"A seed falls, And settles into the ground, And the Sun shines, And the rain comes down, And the seed grows…" Leading up to a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower, the lively, bold illustrations in A Seed Grows offer a close-up view of each step of the growth cycle. Additional material in the back of the book explains the science of plant life cycles, and goes into more detail on the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures. <P><P><i>Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.</i>
A Seed is Sleepy
by Dianna Hutts Aston Sylvia Long<p>Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle. <p>This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book.</p>
A Seed Is Sleepy
by Dianna Hutts Aston Sylvia LongAward-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.
A Seed Needs Help
by Katherine Scraper David HaggertyIn this book, explore the things a seed needs to grow.
The seed that left his pumpkin
by Alessandro CaselliNut is a seed that lives a safe and quiet life inside his pumpkin with his brothers and sisters. But he, unlike the rest of them, is convinced that a “World Out-There” must exist. Even though everyone tells him not to, Nut decides to overcome his fears and leave the pumpkin to see what awaits him outside. An ant, a cicada, and a magpie help him to discover the world they already know well - but what if the World Out-There is just another pumpkin to find a way out of?
Seed To Plant (National Geographic Kids Readers #Level 1)
by Kristin Baird Rattini National Geographic Kids StaffKids see plants, flowers, and trees around them every day. In this lively and educational reader, they'll learn how those plants grow. Kids will take this magical journey from seed pollination to plant growth, learning about what plants need to thrive and grow with the same careful text, brilliant photographs, and the fun approach National Geographic Readers are known for.