Understanding global security - Peter Hough

ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS TO SECURITY
Note
1 The 1967 Torrey Canyon disaster, when an oil tanker was wrecked and spilled its load
off the coast of the Isles of Scilly, UK, was particularly influential in stimulating awareness
of and an international political response to oil pollution.
Recommended reading
Buzan, B., Waever, O. and de Wilde, J. (1998) Security. A New Framework for Analysis, Boulder
& London: Lynne Rienner (Chapter 4).
Carson, R. (1962) Silent Spring, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Deudney, D. (1990) ‘The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation and Security’,
Millennium Journal of International Studies 19(3): 460–476.
Dyer, H. (2000) ‘Environmental Security: The New Agenda’, in C. Jones and C. Kennedy-Pipe
(eds) International Security in a Global Age – Securing the Twenty-first Century, London
& Portland, USA: Frank Cass.
Greene, O. (2001) ‘Environmental Issues’, in Baylis, J. and Smith, S. (eds) The Globalization of
World Politics. An Introduction to International Relations, 2nd edn, Oxford & New York:
Oxford University Press.
Hardin, G. (1968) ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’, Science 162: 1243–1248.
Homer-Dixon, T. (1994) ‘Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases’,
International Security 19(1): 5–40.
Lomberg, B. (2001) The Sceptical Environmentalist, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mathews, J. (1989) ‘Redefining Security’, Foreign Affairs 68: 162–177.
Myers, N. (1993) Ultimate Security – The Environmental Basis of Political Stability, New York:
W.W. Norton.
Ullman, R. (1983) ‘Redefining Security’, International Security 8: 129–153.
Useful web links
United Nations Environment Programme: http://www.unep.org/
World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002): http://www.johannes
burgsummit.org/
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