Much attention has recently been focused on the concept of environmental
security. Two main schools of thought regarding environmental security have
arisen, those of the "environment-and-security" scholars and those of the
"securing-the-environment" school. This article examines and compares the
two schools of thought as they address the issue of environmental conflict,
concluding that the less militaristic focus of the second is better suited to
identifying and preventing causes of such conflict.
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