SECURITY: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS – ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR
INTRODUCTION
1. Traditionalist charge that wider agenda makes the subject incoherent and formulates security to incorporate and formulates security to incorporate the agenda. Traditionalist security patterns has considerable power to explain and predict both the formation of durable regional patterns of security relations and the patterns of outside intervention in these regions.
2. Barry Buzan in his book, people are affected by threats in different areas other than military, such as in political, economic, societal and environmental sectors. He maintains that individuals, states and the international system all play significant roles. All facets of life including
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11. The environmental sector existence of two different agenda::
a. The political agenda is essentially government and intergovernmental, consist of the public decisionmaking process and public policies that address how to deal with environmental concerns. The scientific agenda underpins the political agenda is about state and public awareness off issues on scientific agenda ( how much of scientific agenda is recognized by policymaker), the acceptance of political responsibility for dealing with these issues and the political management questions that arise
b. The scientific agenda is about the authoritative assessment of threat for securitizing or desecuritizing moves where as the political agenda deals with the formation of concern in the public sphere about these moves and the allocation of collective means by which to deal with the issues raised.
12. The environmental sector is made complicated by its great variety of issues:
a. Disruption of ecosystems include loss of biodiversity, deforestation and other form of erosion, depletion of the ozone layer and various form of population.
b. Energy problems include the depletion of natural resources such as fuel wood, various forms of pollution, including management
Energy has easily become one of the most important necessities for our everyday lives. Without it we would simply not be able to have transportation or be able to gather any of our other resources that we depend on. If at anytime our energy supply ceases or no longer attainable the results may be horrific. However, it is quite easy to keep this from happening, It is crucial that our current population realize the importance of sustaining our present non-renewable resources. An examination of all the present energy issues and human impacts of energy conservation along with the a resource plan will show importance of energy
The second biggest impact of habitat destruction is climate regulation. Climate regulation has a big impact world wide as well as the molecule level. The areas around Lake Claremont have become hotter. This has come down the loss of trees as well as the fact that the lake used to be a rubbish tip, this killed a lot of trees that help disperse a lot of carbon dioxide. The effects that climate regulation has on biotic factors are animals are not used to the new temperatures so they die quicker. This is a massive problem as it also effects the trees as there is either more or less water in the ground, that will kill the trees quicker. The impact between species isn’t as big as it is in habitat destruction but, it does effect how animals hunt for food. The new temperature will often kill the producers (grass, small plants), this means that all of the primary producers will have nothing to feed on effecting everything beyond. The flow that is destroyed when the climate changes be
The audience of this book is presumed to be the general person who is not fully intact with the ideas that he or she is disrupting the ecosystem and is not aware of the effects they are doing as a whole. The book argues that no ecosystem is completely inert as things such as climate changes or drought can also affect the enviorment. Without human interaction an environment can still have issues, but the introduction of human life and economy does take a grave toll on the climate. These are irreversible effects that mankind are doing to the ecosystem. The English
One big effect of deforestation that it Contributes to the extinction of animals and plants . In the text ¨Pros and Cons of Deforestation¨ it states
More than 20 football fields of trees are removed each minute. Logging can affect plants and animals by losing their homes. Predator - prey relationships will alter which can then cause a trophic cascade by overpopulation from the prey or extinction of predators. Also keystone species could be removed by these factors. So these living and nonliving factors could affect an ecosystem in many ways. Changes affect the ecosystem strongly in ways which population could boost in biodiversity or severely diminish the population of both plants and animals.
The research has a strong argument following with the case study, Mississippi River basin. It shows that the possibility to be energy scarcity because of several reasons for near future. All research and theory provided by the experts strengthen the argument.
Many forests are dying and that can have a major effect on plants and humans. Forests are dying off because of droughts, deforestation and invasive species. Dying forests can also alter global climate and change how much sunlight is being absorbed in the different hemispheres. Western North American forests are suffering because of the drought while humans are affecting southwestern forests. The removal of forests has different impacts on different parts of the world. In some places, it is a good thing while in other places it is bad. Scientists are trying figure out where and how the surrounding plants are affected negatively and positively.
Forests have been cut, crops planted, pastures seeded, and urban areas paved. One of the most troubling consequences of human modification of ecosystems is an ongoing loss of species and therefore a loss of biodiversity around the world. The current extinctions have a human cause: habitat loss (such as clearing of tropical rainforests); the introduction of invasive species; unregulated hunting and fishing; and pollution of water, air, and
cause of biodiversity loss. The total economic impact caused by invasive species is substantial. It
Transportation by fuel-guzzling land, water, and air vehicles is rapidly depleting the fossil fuels, and causing air pollution. The flow from industries, fertilizer run off, and oil spills all hurt delicate ecosystems. Removing trees and other plants to grow places of civilization causes loss and treats the survival of many species of animals and plants. There are many negative impacts along with population explosion. Using chemical fertilizers, insecticides,
As we lose more and more habitats, it could create a domino effect causing many other complications in the world's ecosystem.
There are many positives and negatives that impact are ecosystems. Logging and forest getting smaller and smaller like the size of Switzerland each year are some of the main reasons that are ecosystem is not thriving that much. Some other reasons are that there is not enough space for animals and alpine grass is disappearing. On the other
Environmental issues affect every life on this planet from the smallest parasite to the human race. There are many resources that humans and animal needs to survive; some of the most obvious resources come from the forests. Forests make up a large percentage of the globe. The forests have global implications not just on life but on the quality of it. Trees improve the quality of the air that species breath, determine rainfall and replenish the atmosphere. The wood from the forests are used everyday form many useful resources. Moreover, thinning the forests increases the amount of available light, nutrients and water for the remaining trees. Deforestation (forest thinning) is one of the most
The traditional security paradigm is focused on physical and external security threats to states. It promotes that security should be state centred and national security is primary over other securities, such as human security. States must defend their territory and authority from external, foreign threats, by physical means, such as increasing the military or
Our needs for plants and trees are an essential part of living because they produce our planets oxygen in our air as well as absorbing the Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. With the increasing need for deforestation happening there is no place for the Carbon Dioxide to go. This compound stays in our air and allows for more Greenhouse gases to be trapped and stay on our planet’s atmosphere. Deforestation has also lead to millions of homeless wildlife and has led to many species being extinct or close to extinction. Such examples include the Polar Bear’s habitat disappearing and melting because of rising sea levels due to methane and Carbon Dioxide levels heating up the