Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity
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Book Overview
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.
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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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