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Narrate the various ways in which rapid environmental degradation is posing a serious threat to human security. Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 15 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Human security, set out by Mahbub ul Haq in the UNDP Human Development Report (1994), moves the referent object of security from the state to the individual: freedom from fear and freedom from want. Environmental security is one of its seven components, but degradation (warming, biodiversity loss and pollution, the "triple planetary crisis") acts on…

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  • Channels through which degradation threatens people
  • Degradation as a threat multiplier
  • Limits of the security framing
  • Conclusion
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