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

by Michael Renner

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"

Customer Reviews

Sustainable development must take the security front seat!

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!