The Secure and the Dispossessed : How the Military and Corporations Are Shaping a Climate-Changed World.

"What if government and corporate elites have given up on the idea of stopping climate change and prefer to try to manage its consequences? The Secure and the Dispossessed shows how the military and corporations plan to maintain control in a world reshaped by climate change. With one eye on the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, 2015.
Colección:Transnational Institute.
Temas:
Climate change mitigation > Government policy.
National security > Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects.
Climatic changes > Risk management.
Climat > Changements > Atténuation > Politique gouvernementale.
Climat > Changements > Aspect économique.
Climat > Changements > Gestion du risque.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects
Climatic changes > Risk management
National security > Environmental aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Boxes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Susan George
  • Introduction: Security for Whom in a Time of Climate Crisis
  • Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes
  • Part I: The Security Agenda
  • 1. The Catastrophic Convergence: Militarism, Neoliberalism and Climate Change
  • Christian Parenti
  • 2. Colonising the Future: Climate Change and International Security Strategies
  • Ben Hayes
  • 3. Climate Change Inc.: How TNCs are Managing Risk and Preparing to Profit in a World of Runaway Climate Change
  • Oscar Reyes
  • Part II: Security for Whom?
  • 4. A Permanent State of Emergency: Civil Contingencies, Risk Management and Human Rights
  • Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ben Hayes and Nick Buxton
  • 5. From Refugee Protection to Militarised Exclusion: What Future for 'Climate Refugees'?
  • Ben Hayes, Steve Wright and April Humble
  • 6. The Fix is In: (Geo)engineering Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
  • Kathy Jo Wetter and Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group
  • 7. Greenwashing Death: Climate Change and the Arms Trade
  • Mark Akkerman
  • Part III: Acquisition Through Dispossession
  • 8. Sowing Insecurity: Food and Agriculture in a Time of Climate Crisis
  • Nick Buxton, Zoe W. Brent and Annie Shattuck
  • 9. In Deep Water: Confronting the Climate and Water Crises
  • Mary Ann Manahan
  • 10. Power to the People: Rethinking 'Energy Security'
  • The Platform Collective
  • Conclusion: Finding Security in a Climate-Changed World
  • Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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