Human security and the environment : international comparisons / edited by Edward A. Page, Michael Redclift.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Human security and the environment at the new millennium / Edward Page and Michael Redclift -- Human security and the environment / Edward Page -- Democracy and the environment / Nils Petter Gleditsch and Bjørn Otto Sverdrup -- The environment and civil society : the rights to nature, and the rights of nature / Michael Redclift -- Global environmental change and human security : what do indicators indicate? / Steve Lonergan, Fred Langeweg and Henk Hilderink -- Climate change as a security issue / Johannes Stripple -- Food security / Colin Sage -- Water and 'cultural security' / Chris Cocklin -- The European Union and the 'securitisation' of the environment / John Vogler -- Human security and the environment : the North American perspective / Richard Matthew -- Human security and the environment in sub-Saharan Africa : the challenge of the new millennium / Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah -- The semantics of 'human security' in North-west Amazonia : between indigenous peoples' 'management of the world' and the USA's state security policy for Latin America / Oscar Forero and Graham Woodgate -- Fresh water in Costa Rica : abundant yet constrained / Álvaro Fernández-González, Viviana Blanco-Barboza and Edgar E. Gutiérrez-Espeleta.eta.