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Geography of Human Conflict: Approaches to Survival
Neville Brown
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Description for Geography of Human Conflict: Approaches to Survival
Hardback. Based on the belief that what we know as 'strategic studies' needs urgently to address a clutch of geography-related considerations customarily seen as outside its remit. This work places emphasis on the development of regional associations strong enough to deal with various aspects of a survival strategy. Num Pages: 386 pages, maps. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 844.
This book is mindful of Geography's big dilemma. How can the subject curb the encroachments of other disciplines: environmental studies, human ecology, political science, geophysics...? The author believes that what we know as 'strategic studies' needs urgently to address a clutch of geography-related considerations customarily seen as outside its remit. Climate change is of singular import, security-wise. Moreover, other pressures on our planetary ecology and resource base, currently appear as critical, taken collectively. Societal and philosophic contradictions are deeply endemic, too, not least within the modern post-industrial nations. Again the attendant security implications may lend themselves well to geographical interpretations. ... Read more
This book is mindful of Geography's big dilemma. How can the subject curb the encroachments of other disciplines: environmental studies, human ecology, political science, geophysics...? The author believes that what we know as 'strategic studies' needs urgently to address a clutch of geography-related considerations customarily seen as outside its remit. Climate change is of singular import, security-wise. Moreover, other pressures on our planetary ecology and resource base, currently appear as critical, taken collectively. Societal and philosophic contradictions are deeply endemic, too, not least within the modern post-industrial nations. Again the attendant security implications may lend themselves well to geographical interpretations. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191696
SKU
V9781845191696
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About Neville Brown
Neville Brown has authored twenty books or major reports, including The Future of Air Power (1986). With the award-winning Future Global Challenge (1977) he began to give economic, social and ecological factors salience in the quest for a peaceable world. This thrust continued with New Strategy Through Space (1990) through to Global Instability and Strategic Crisis (2004) and History and ... Read more
Reviews for Geography of Human Conflict: Approaches to Survival
"Neville Brown has used his vast knowledge of history and geography in a fascinating way to give us deeper insights into how these key influences on human life have combined to shape our course. At this time we should be thinking widely and challenging familiar boundaries of thought. Brown leads the way with a very important book. I commend it ... Read more