Publisher's Synopsis
With the end of the Cold War, the rise of consciousness of deprivation around the world and the resulting flood of refugees of all kinds and the growing recognition of possibly catastrophic changes in the biosphere, we are witnessing the gradual emergence of a new conception of international society different from that of the community of nation states. This book grows out of a series of lectures given in Cambridge and addressed to issues of environmental security which follow from this new awareness.;It describes the concept of environmental security, approaches questions of the environment from the realm of political studies, deals with theory and values and pushes the debate beyond the issue of the environment alone into interaction with matters of global security.
