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Rita Floyd argues that there are always circumstances in which states and other actors have a moral duty to securitize - to use extraordinary emergency measures to deal with existential threats, whatever their source. This book will appeal to anyone interested in achieving a more peaceful and just world"--

Rita Floyd argues that there are always circumstances in which states and other actors have a moral duty to securitize ‿ to use extraordinary emergency measures to deal with existential threats, whatever their source. This book will appeal to anyone interested in achieving a more peaceful and just world.

Floyd's innovative approach to ethics and security enables scholars to normatively evaluate securitization past and present, equips practitioners to make informed judgements on what they ought to do in relevant situations, and empowers the public to hold relevant actors accountable for how they view security.

Floyd's innovative approach to ethics and security enables scholars to normatively evaluate securitization past and present, equips practitioners to make informed judgements on what they ought to do in relevant situations, and empowers the public to hold relevant actors accountable for how they view security.

Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet¿s natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. The field of environmental security has matured in response to improved scientific understanding of the causes and trends of global environmental change. Research conducted in the past two decades has grappled with this core set of questions in a variety of ways, generating findings and hyp...

Rita Floyd traces US environmental security policies from 1993 to 2009 and proposes a revised theory of security.

Rita Floyd traces United States environmental policies from Clinton's decision to declare environmental security a national security issue in 1993 to the subsequent disappearance of environmental policy from Bush's Administration. She questions the moral reasoning of the US government's actions and proposes a revised securitisation theory.