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Category Archives: Demography and Development — Week 6
Education and its impact on security
Sciubba et. al. and Upreti examine the socioeconomic and politics of the State and international institutions affecting the environment security. Sciubba et. al. address that demographic changes with different conditions of quality influence military, environmental, political, societal, and economic security … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Quality, Uprati, Sciubba
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Demography and Security
Sciubba et al. interestingly breaks down the components of population and national security, and connects them in unique ways, showing their wide interdependence. Interestingly, this approach to environmental security appears most logical for our immediate organization of the world. In … Continue reading
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Tagged power, military, women's security, youth bulges, China
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Population, Development and Environmental Security
Both authors agree on one significant fact: environmental security is a matter of human security. Human security is “relevant for national security, as without the security of individuals and the environment they live in, the state itself is insecure,” (207). … Continue reading
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Tagged MDGs, Demography, social learning, Upreti, Sciubba, drought, Somalia, human security, Parenti
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Environmental security and development
Sciubba et al. concentrate on the effects of population driven by fertility, mortality and migration on national security, which signifies “the ability of states to maintain their independent identity and their functional integrity.” Separating the types of threats imposing on … Continue reading
Environmental Governance
This week’s reading felt like an accumulation from the earlier readings of this semester.We revisited the familiar analogy of spaceship earth, as well as Malthusian theories. Chapter 11 examines the role of the population in terms of power and the … Continue reading
Positive Feedbacks and Negative Externalities
When one considers environmental security, one does not tend to include population, at least in the beginning. Sadly, the affect of population and its growth is not often what first comes to mind. However, the more I think about Sciubba, … Continue reading
Social Learning and Immigration Conflict
Population and National Security and Environmental Security and Sustainable Development both explore the impact humans have on the environment and human security. In their article, Sciubba et. al. state that increasing human population is the cause of civil conflict and … Continue reading
Cameroonian Sustainable Development
During my study abroad experience last Spring, I felt as though I had an unfortunate opportunity to glimpse the negative effects of unsustainable development in Cameroon. Many of Upreti’s points about unsustainable development echo the North/South (or West/East) inequality discourses … Continue reading
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Tagged Cameroon, NGO, Upreti, Sciubba, population, environmental security, East Africa, Global South, security
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Reframing Population, Environment, and Security for a Pluralistic World
The two chapters by Sciubba et al. and Upreti both serve to deconstruct basic concepts of environmental and human security and categorically reframe them. Sciubba et al defines population as the changes in fertility, mortality, and migration (Page 201) and … Continue reading
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Tagged holism, pluralism, political security, population, Haiti
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Environmental insecurity and the global poor
In order to create environmentally sustainable development practices, we need to ensure that different population trends and societal demographics are taken into account and that a global, interdisciplinary, cooperative approach is the basis for sustainable development goals to be met. … Continue reading