Dear colleagues:
Hope the new semester is treating you all well! I want to announce my new book entitled *Environmental Security: A Guide to the Issues*, recently published by Praeger as part of their Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues series. I wrote it to be accessible not just to gep folks, but for academics not in environmental studies or IR, policy-makers, students, and the public. I think it will make a good class text for gep professors who want to incorporate some discussion of security into their environment classes, as well as a readable refresher for IR and global studies professors who know that the environment is *the* global problem. The Amazon blurb: “Issues of climate change, dwindling resources, natural disaster, and disease that comprise environmental security are at the forefront of global politics and the media today. *Environmental Security: A Guide to the Issues* is a primer for anyone attuned to these threats. This well-reasoned, thought-provoking volume establishes and updates the connection between global environmental problems and international security, describing existing theories of environmental security and illustrating them with evidence from present-day global ecological realities. Specifically, the book shows readers how both shortages and abundance of natural resources such as fresh water, oil and natural gas, and diamonds and timber can contribute to conflict and insecurity. It also discusses how agriculture and fisheries issues affect food security with international ramifications, how global ecosystem shifts like climate change are affecting both the earth and the movement of people on it, and how war and preparation for war can affect the natural environment. Finally, the book explores how nations can, and must, cooperate with each other to confront and manage these threats.” Using the airport bookstore model of success, I hope to start out in small regional airports, and move up to larger national hubs. Eventually, a wing of O’Hare will be named after me. -Beth ___________________ Elizabeth L. Chalecki, PhD Visiting Mellon Asst Professor, Environmental Studies Program Goucher College Van Meter 112 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204 elizabeth. chalecki [at] gmail. com <http://gmail.com> www.linkedin.com/in/chalecki -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
