ABSTRACT
The concept of environmental security is still a contested one. The concept of security as such is elusive and open to many different interpretations. Yet, Arnold Wolfers summed up succinctly: “security, in an objective sense, measures the absence of threats to acquired values, [and] in a
subjective sense, the absence of fear that such values will be attacked” (Wolfers 1962: 150). With the two oil crises of the 1970s, the end of the Cold War, and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, it became clear that the acquired values to be protected go beyond strict military concerns and cover economic, energy, food, and environmental values as well.
