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100 1 _aMITCHELL Audra
245 _aOnly human? :
_ba worldly approach to security /
_cAudra Mitchell.
260 _c2014
520 _aThe tendency to focus on human aspects of security is too limited. Chemical, biological and nuclear weapons as well as man-made disasters pose threats to entire biosystems of which humans are only a part. This article discusses in philosophical terms the need for a different concept, and proposes the idea of mundicide (world death). Illustrate the argument with a case study of large scale petrochemical pollution in Ecuador by Chevron-Texaco in the 1990s.
650 _aGLOBAL ETHICS
650 _aANTHROPOCENTRISM
650 _aGLOBAL SECURITY
650 _aENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
773 _aSecurity Dialogue :
_gVol 45, No. 1, February 2014, pp. 5-21 (47)
856 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010613515015
_zLink to full text.
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