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Tag Archives: East Africa
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
Posted in Demography and Development -- Week 6
Tagged Cameroon, NGO, Upreti, Sciubba, population, environmental security, East Africa, Global South, security
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History and Stories in Environmental Security
The Parenti readings for this week showed the importance of history and seemingly-unrelated topics in Environmental Security. In discussing global climate change effects in Africa, much of Part II goes into surprising detail about Kenyan colonial history.In these chapters, while … Continue reading
Challenging and Reframing the Security Discourse
The central idea behind this week’s readings is the reframing of security discourse, including that of environmental security and ecological security. In Environmental Security, Pirages suggests that we must reframe the security paradigm in order to take into account environmental … Continue reading