Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian Ocean by Dennis Rumley Sanjay Chaturvedi

Author:Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi [Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138916661
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2015-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES

CHAPTER 8

An Agenda for Environmental Security in the Indian Ocean Region

Timothy Doyle

This Chapter will explore the concept of environmental security within the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). An appropriate draft agenda will be discussed using seven different but intertwined examples of environmental security issues taken from states within and bordering the Indian Ocean – land degradation, water, fisheries, climate change, nuclear waste, environmental refugees and the urban explosion and associated environmental deterioration.

Depending on the disciplinary paradigm, whether it be international relations, critical geopolitics, military security, or environmental politics, definitions of environmental security are as numerous as definitions of what constitutes the ‘environment’ itself. In the recent environmental security literature, issues which fall under its rubric are multifarious and diverse. Some of these include: biological and ecological security; the greening of military operations; climate change; desertification; biodiversity; human population and migration; fisheries; forests; energy; water; nutrition; shelter; and poverty.

Two categories can be used to order this cacophony of issues in the first instance. First, most environmental security issues are still cast around the ‘security’ of the nation-state. Secondly, a more inclusive definition, one which transcends nation-state boundaries, relates to conditions which secure individual access to a basic infrastructure for survival in a geopolitical region defined by shared environmental boundaries. Environmental security, in this vein, is reliant on shared understandings of ecological conditions leading to potential and real conflicts, as well as developing a more sustained, peaceful, and resource-secure regional future.

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