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Provocări de mediu la adresa securității naționale - calitatea și gestionarea resurselor de apă
Environment challenges towards national security: The quality and the management of water supplies
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Abstract The interconnection between the environmental issues and national security is one of the pressing matters due to the rapid changes that are taking place in both areas. Resource scarcity
and environmental degradation are increasingly understood to play an important role in generating or exacerbating... view more
The interconnection between the environmental issues and national security is one of the pressing matters due to the rapid changes that are taking place in both areas. Resource scarcity
and environmental degradation are increasingly understood to play an important role in generating or exacerbating conflicts. One of the most important causes that contribute to this degradation is related to the mismanagement of water resources.This situation has an important
impact on all the activities related to the proper functioning of a community. This research aims taking into account the scarcity of the water resources and degradation of its quality as a challenge on the national security. The deplation and degradation of the water resources are a function of the physical vulnerability of the resource, the size of the resource consuming
population and the technologies and practices this population uses in this consumption behavior.... view less
Keywords
national security; environmental policy; risk; threat; sewage; public health care delivery system; environmental protection; resources; shortage; waste disposal; infrastructure; nutrition; water management
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Free Keywords
Ernährungsunsicherheit
Document language
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 99-116
Journal
Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series, 14 (2012) 1
ISSN
1582-2486
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works