Narrate the various ways in which rapid environmental
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 security widened beyond the military → protection of resources + survival of populations → Buzan: environment now on the security agenda
Route 2 degradation as a transnational, non-traditional threat → several connected pathways to human insecurity
resource conflict (water/diamonds/oil) in scarcity → Homer-Dixon: supply/demand/structural scarcity → resource capture + ecological marginalisation → weakened states → insurgency + communal violence → threats to food/energy/economic security → livelihood loss → climate-induced migration + displacement → strain on borders + stability
the burden falls unevenly → Buzan/Copenhagen securitisation (existential framing, extraordinary responses) → Beck’s Risk Society: manufactured risks contested + unequally distributed → Global South disempowered → Maldives: existential threat, little voice
Route 1 environmental insecurity inseparable from injustice + inequality → a transnational threat demands cooperation → SDGs as a blueprint for resilience
Route 2 Beck: shift from short-term national interest to long-term planetary ethics
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
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How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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