The future is now: Human security as a choice

A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 452-458

  Wolf, Johanna ^a   O’Brien, Karen ^b   Sygna, Linda ^b  

^a ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 84917421649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203109885     Document Type: Chapter

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