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Finding Protection in Definitions: The Quest for Environmental Security

Finding Protection in Definitions: The Quest for Environmental Security The definitional move of linking environmental concerns to security concerns has been promoted by those seeking greater salience for environmental issues and opposed by those suspicious of a move to ‘securitize’ environmental discourse. This essay reviews and critiques the arguments for and against this definitional change based on the degree to which they functionally view definitional argument as a strategy rather than as a truth claim. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Argumentation and Advocacy Taylor & Francis

Finding Protection in Definitions: The Quest for Environmental Security

Broda-Bahm, Kenneth T.
Argumentation and Advocacy , Volume 35 (4): 12 – Mar 1, 1999
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Finding Protection in Definitions: The Quest for Environmental Security

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The definitional move of linking environmental concerns to security concerns has been promoted by those seeking greater salience for environmental issues and opposed by those suspicious of a move to ‘securitize’ environmental discourse. This essay reviews and critiques the arguments for and against this definitional change based on the degree to which they functionally view definitional argument as a strategy rather than as a truth claim.
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Taylor & Francis
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© 1999 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC
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2576-8476
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1051-1431
DOI
10.1080/00028533.1999.11951629
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Abstract

The definitional move of linking environmental concerns to security concerns has been promoted by those seeking greater salience for environmental issues and opposed by those suspicious of a move to ‘securitize’ environmental discourse. This essay reviews and critiques the arguments for and against this definitional change based on the degree to which they functionally view definitional argument as a strategy rather than as a truth claim.

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Argumentation and Advocacy – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 1, 1999

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