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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.
Michael J. Albert
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The role of land use change in affecting ecosystem services and the ecological security pattern of the Hexi Regions, Northwest China.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
The land use and land cover change (LUCC) associated with climate change and human activities is supposed to exert a significant effect on ecosystem functions in arid inland regions.
Yong-ge Li, Wei Liu, Q. Feng, Meng Zhu, Lin-shan Yang, Jutao Zhang, Xinwei Yin   +6 more
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Identifying ecological security patterns based on the supply, demand and sensitivity of ecosystem service: A case study in the Yellow River Basin, China.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
Ecological security is the basis for ecosystems to provide various ecosystem services (ESs) to humans. Identifying ecological security patterns (ESPs) is an effective approach to determine the priority conservation areas and ensure regional ecological ...
Yunlong Zhang, Zhengyuan Zhao, B. Fu, Ruiming Ma, Yingying Yang, Y. Lü, Xing Wu   +6 more
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Monitoring of ecological security patterns based on long-term land use changes in Langsa Bay, Indonesia

International Journal of Digital Earth
Southeast Asian coastal zone boasts a concentration of land and marine resources with vulnerable habitats, especially in highly artificial bays. Yet systematic studies on their ecological security assessment are lacking.
Jiaojie Zhang, Fengqin Yan, Vincent Lyne, Xuege Wang, Fenzhen Su, Qian Cao, Bin He   +6 more
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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, Zhengfang Wu, Hong S. He, Shengzhong Wang, Hongyan Zhang, Jiawei Xu, Shusheng Wang   +6 more
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Construction and influencing factors of an early warning system for marine ranching ecological security: Experience from China's coastal areas.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2023
Marine ranching has been widely considered as a new mode of marine fishery production. Marine ranching ecological security (MRES) is the basis and premise to ensure the sustainable utilization of marine ranching functions.
M. Jiao, W. Yue, A. Suo, Li Zhang, Hanying Li, P. Xu, Dewen Ding   +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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