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Ecological Security

2021
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a security issue. Yet this recognition belies contestation over what security means and whose security is viewed as threatened. Different accounts – here defined as discourses – of security range from those focused on national sovereignty to those emphasising the vulnerability of human populations. This book
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Canadian Securities Lending Market Ecology

2019
This is the fourth of the Financial Markets Department’s descriptions of Canadian financial industrial organization. The paper discusses the organization of the securities lending market in Canada. We outline key characteristics of securities lending contracts, participants in the securities lending market, the market infrastructures that support ...
Johal, Jesse, Roberts, Joanna, Sim, John
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Ecological Security: Changbai Mountains, China

2020
Ecological security is an essential cornerstone for the sustainability of human societies and nature ecosystems. Ecological security depends on the balance between human demands and actions in consumption and alteration of resource base and the sustainability, vulnerability and resilience of environmental systems that provide ecosystem services.
Yeqiao Wang   +6 more
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Peace and ecological security

Peace Review, 1994
New research shows that environmental factors have been a direct or indirect cause of past conflict and wars and are likely to play an increasing role in future strife. Conversely, wars and military activities are becoming ever more environmentally destructive.
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Climate change and security: towards ecological security?

International Theory, 2018
Climate change is increasingly characterized as a security issue. Yet we see nothing approaching consensus about the nature of the climate change–security relationship. Indeed existing depictions in policy statements and academic debate illustrate radically different conceptions of the nature of the threat posed, to whom and what constitute appropriate
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The ecology of water security

2016
The provision of water security for humans generally requires a stable supply of high quality water, which is in contrast to the importance of variability in water quality and quantity for ecosystems. In this chapter we address this apparent conflict and seek congruence between humans and the environment. We discuss the concept of ecosystem health, its
Stewart-Koster, Ben, Bunn, Stuart
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Tourism Ecological Security in Wuhan

Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2013
The concept of ecological security stems from environmental security theory, and is generally used to evaluate the ecological security of land, water resources and the city. This study applies the Pressure-Station-Response (P-S-R) model and theory of ecological security with field research in 2010 to establish an index system for tourism ecological ...
Li Yajuan, Chen Tian, Hu Jing, Wang Jing
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Abolitionist Ecological Security

Security Dialogue
As ecological crises deepen, many scholars have challenged dominant practices of security by developing more progressive environmental or ecological security discourses. Others, on the other hand, critique these moves by emphasizing the inherently repressive features of security discourse.
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Ecology as critical security method

Critical Studies on Security, 2014
Something in the world makes us think (Deleuze 1994). How could it be any other way? If thought was its own cause, consciousness that was consonant with the world would be impossible.
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