From Environmental to Comprehensive Security by Arthur H. Westing

By Arthur H. Westing

This paintings offers the evolution of the conventional idea of "national defense" as army safety to also include "environmental safeguard" after which unavoidably additionally "social (societal) security", thence to be termed "comprehensive human security". It accomplishes this essentially via proposing 11
of the author's personal benchmark papers released among 1983 and 2010 (additionally delivering bibliographic citations to another 36 of the author's comparable courses in the course of that period). The paintings stresses the significance of transfrontier (regional) cooperation, and in addition acknowledges worldwide overpopulation
as a key obstacle to reaching accomplished human security.

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