Environmental security: A critical overview

There are different approaches to environmental security. Time vary widely in terms of their explanatory power, their ambitions, the images they produce and their political implications. As heterogeneous as the approaches may be, the fundamental underlying assumptions are remarkably similar. They are all based on the concept of the person that is bereft of the social dimensions as well as on an antiquated concept of human needs. They also all ignore the social symbolic dimension of security. In that, they are blind to the multitude of social and cultural coping mechanisms that determine individual responses to environmental insecurity