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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Environmental Security"”.
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Environmental Security and Communal Conflict in Iraq
… of competing ethnic groups in response to environmental insecurity, mainly the water scarcity and competition of arable lands in the Iraqi disputed territories and the authorities they turn to govern their environmental degradation. Northern Iraq is a mosaic of ethnic and cultural …
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Environmental security planning : an application to the Longwood Medical Area
The thesis is a study of the security problems due to street crime in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston. The first part of the thesis defines the theories and practices of environmental security .planning, the urban design synoptic approach to crime prevention. The environment is examined in its …
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Earth Observation Data-Driven Assessment of Local to Regional, Contemporary, and Emerging Coastal Environmental Security Challenges
Coastal zones are hotspots of global environmental changes. Worldwide, coastal environments face multiple, interactive stressors caused by both natural and anthropogenic impacts on climatic, oceanographic, ecological, and socio-economic processes such as sea level rise, storm surges, hurricanes, …
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The price of being local in a global natural resource Local perceptions and global challenges Case study: Manaus and Novo Airão, Brazilian Amazon
… resource’, essential for ‘global human and environmental security’. Using an ‘emic’ approach, based on in-depth interviews and participant observation, the findings reveal that global demands have been internalised without adaptation to local circumstances, with serious consequences for …
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The security imaginaries of an unarmed people: popular and elite security discourses in Iceland
This dissertation analyzes public and elite security discourses in Iceland, drawing on focus group interviews and political debates to develop an understanding of what serves as the foundation of security and insecurity at the societal, environmental, and political levels. The thesis uses discourse …
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Climate Instability, Security, and United States Defense Policy
… climate have the potential to impact national security interests. Despite the recognized negative impacts, considerations of this facet of environmental security have not been comprehensively incorporated into United States defense policy. In light of climate instability's potential to …
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Exploring primary caregivers’ perceptions of children’s wellbeing during covid-19 within a low socioeconomic school context in the Cape Metropole
… countries (LMIC) such as South Africa, environmental security and safety already poses schooling challenges. Furthermore, within pandemic conditions, adequate environments conducive to remote learning was impossible due to the scarcity of digital learning resources caused by the inequity …
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Farmer-pastoralist conflicts in the Kilosa district of Tanzania: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives on causes, impacts and responses
… approach and, more importantly, the environmental security and political ecology theories, were used for conflict analysis in a bid to determine the gaps in the existing body of the literature. Specifically, the study aimed at determining: first, the causes of the conflicts in …
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Farmer-pastoralist conflicts in the Kilosa district of Tanzania: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives on causes, impacts and responses
… approach and, more importantly, the environmental security and political ecology theories, were used for conflict analysis in a bid to determine the gaps in the existing body of the literature. Specifically, the study aimed at determining: first, the causes of the conflicts in …
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Farmer-pastoralist conflicts in the Kilosa district of Tanzania: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives on causes, impacts and responses
… approach and, more importantly, the environmental security and political ecology theories, were used for conflict analysis in a bid to determine the gaps in the existing body of the literature. Specifically, the study aimed at determining: first, the causes of the conflicts in …
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A water and greenhouse gas inventory for hygroscopic and conventional evaporative building-scale cooling systems
… climate change. The U.S. Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program demonstrated a novel heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) cooling tower technology with the goal of reducing water usage. In this study, direct and indirect water usage and …
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An analysis of the socio-economic security challenges of urbanisation on the livelihood of the residents of Havana and Greenwell Matongo informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia
… of urbanisation. These challenges are various security challenges such as unemployment, poverty, crime and the negative effect on the environment. Therefore, it is important to recognise that migration, in excess, is both a symptom of national security threats and instability. Understanding the …
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Triple Helix Model of Innovation for Renewable Energy Development in a Developing Economy: A case of the Nigerian Power Sector
… without compromising present and future socio-environmental security. Through collaborative efforts, research, innovation, and technology have become critical success factors for nations to achieve the sustainable development goal (SDG) by 2030. The Triple-helix model of innovation involving …
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A tale of two clades: genome evolution of oomycetes and fungi.
… historical and contemporary impact on food and environmental security. In contrast, fungi themselves are probably the most densely studied and sequenced group of organisms in evolutionary science outside of bacteria. This thesis is a collection of five published computational studies of the …
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The Greater Sage-grouse in Wyoming: A Technonatural Study
… examines the operation of neoliberal environmentality through the instrumentalization of the Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming. It treats technological interventions within environmental construction as generating biotic-machinic entanglements termed …
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Natural Attenuation Software (NAS): Assessing Remedial Strategies and Estimating Timeframes
… over time. A Department of Defense (DoD) Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) demonstration was undertaken to evaluate the capability of the NAS software to provide reasonable estimates of MNA cleanup timeframes in a variety of environments and sites throughout …
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Protection of the environment through criminal law /
… a constant exchange of substances. The complex environmental situatiom stems from a persistent increase in the occurrence of environmental crimes that often go undetected. This not only poses a significant risk towards human health and life, but also leads to widespread pollution, extensive …
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The European Union and Jordan: Building Resilience in the Face of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
… became one of its five priorities of foreign and security policy as emphasized in the European Union Global Strategy of 2016 (EUGS) (The European Union External Action Service , 2016). As for ‘resilience’ as a concept, the commission defines it as “The ability of states and societies to reform, …
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Security and Securitization in Israel
The State of Israel has faced many security challenges since its founding in 1948. Located in a hostile environment where there are no democratic regimes, and surrounded by Arab countries which immediately after its establishment were declared a war of annihilation, the State of Israel, which is …