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“rita floyd”

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  • The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations

    Thinking With and Beyond Barry Buzan

    Edited by Rita Floyd, Laust Schouenborg ...
    Barry Buzan is one of Europe's most prolific scholars of international relations, renowned for his interdisciplinary collaborations and commitment to making complex ideas accessible. This volume features a detailed analysis of his practised 'big picture' approach and its value to the international relations discipline, as well as related social science disciplines. It starts with an explication of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Environmental Security

    Approaches, Issues and Actors

    Edited by Rita Floyd, Richard Matthew ...
    This book offers a comprehensive survey of the distinctive theoretical approaches, fundamental issues and key actors that are central to the contemporary field of environmental security studies.Through a series of chapters written by leading experts, this volume provides readers with an overview of environmental security studies, an arena of considerable policy and research attention that has ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Duty to Secure

    From Just to Mandatory Securitization

    by Rita Floyd ...
    States have social contractual duties to provide security for their people, but just what measures are morally required? Should states be obligated to address real/objective existential threats via securitization (i.e., threat-specific, often liberty defying, rigorously enforced and sometimes forcible emergency measures)? Do non-state actors or international organizations also have a moral duty to ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Morality of Security

    A Theory of Just Securitization

    by Rita Floyd ...
    When is it permissible to move an issue out of normal politics and treat it as a security issue? How should the security measures be conducted? When and how should the securitization be reversed? Floyd offers answers to these questions by combining security studies' influential securitization theory with philosophy's long-standing just war tradition, creating a major new approach to the ethics of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Security and the Environment

    Securitisation Theory and US Environmental Security Policy

    by Rita Floyd ...
    In 1993 the first Clinton administration declared environmental security a national security issue, but by the end of the Bush administrations environmental security had vanished from the government's agenda. This book uses changing US environmental security policy to propose a revised securitisation theory, one that both allows insights into the intentions of key actors and enables moral ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Environmental Security

    Approaches and Issues

    Edited by Rita Floyd, Richard Matthew ...
    Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet’s natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. For over twenty years, considerable research and debate have focused on clarifying or disputing linkages between various forms of environmental change and various understandings of security. At one extreme lie sceptics who contend that the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    A Final Warning

    by James Lovelock ...
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  • Too Much Magic

    Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation

    by James Howard Kunstler ...
    The author of The Long Emergency explains why technology can't solve all our problems, and how excessive optimism can endanger our future .The Long Emergency quickly became a grassroots hit, offering a shocking vision of our post-oil future and capturing the attention of environmentalists and business leaders alike. As discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels and our dysfunctional financial ... Read more

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  • Green Is the New Red

    An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege

    by Will Potter ...
    At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes "terrorism" and to hit nonviolent activists with disproportionate sentences. Some have faced terrorism charges for simply chalking slogans on the sidewalk ... Read more

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  • Being Ecological

    by Timothy Morton ...
    A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you.Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while ... Read more

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  • Walks, Tracks and Trails of Queensland's Tropics

    by Derrick Stone ...
    Queensland’s tropics provide numerous environments for enjoyable walking: lush rainforests, cloud-shrouded mountains, extinct volcanoes, savanna woodlands, and magnificent beaches on the coast and Great Barrier Reef islands. This book brings together more than 150 of the best walks, tracks or trails in Queensland’s tropics, located within the coastal strip between Rockhampton and Cooktown. Walks ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Leap of Faith

    by Laura Adams ...
    Based on a true story of recent events that took place in one of America's most famous small towns. Known for cereal, Battle Creek, Michigan, became world-famous again in July of 2010 when over 800,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled into the river that runs through town, from a pipeline that nobody knew existed, owned by a company no one had heard of.Leap of Faith is the true story of a small ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus