India’s Environmental Security and Implicat...

India’s Environmental Security and Implications

Author Name : Dr. S. K. Sharma

ABSTRACT

The concept of security has been changing from traditional military thinking to a non-military one by including the environmental dimension in security agenda. A broadening of the security agenda that we have seen in the post-cold war era, have introduced numerous non-traditional threats to security. Among these threats we could mention: drugs, diseases (HIV/aids), and failed states. The environment was the major single theme to affect the broadening, and that got the greatest attention and produced the most intense political discussion at least during the 1990’s.[1]Amongst a broad category of traditional and non-traditional security (NTS) in the present day, energy and environmental security falls into which encompasses ‘issues and factors that impinge on the security/stability of the state or individual and has become more noticeable after the demise of the Cold War.’[2]