international security through environmental challenges mossalanejad, a.

Protecting global health security through the International Health Regulations: requirements and challenges.

Environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea and international responsibility of its littoral states

The main challenges facing the environment of the Caspian Sea include the water level rise, environmental pollutions, the entrance of exotic species to the Caspian Sea, loss of the flora reservoirs and eutrophication. These challenges forced the coastal states to conclude the Framework Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea in 2003. The long duration of time t...

International Challenges of Smart Cities

The world’s urban population is expected to be proliferated due to raised use of energy, increased air pollution, increasing traffic in urban areas, increasing usage of food, and reduced food production. There are numerous available solutions in this field, but achieving smart cities is one the furthermost effective ways. Smart city has improved ICT infrastructure as a versatile, reliable, chan...

Constructing Blame: Overpopulation, Environmental Security and International Relations

Historically, issues of gender, race and the environment have received little attention in mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship. Great strides have been made, however, in interrogating the inadequacies of the field in these areas and, similarly, in demonstrating the necessity of expanded definitions of security and violence in IR. Despite these strides, mainstream environmental s...

NAFTA in the New Millenium: Environmental Challenges to International Trade

Introduction The nature of linkages between international trade and environmental wellbeing has been debated for several decades, with no resolution in sight. Environmental critics of neo-liberal trade policies warn of over-consumption, drains on resource supplies, increases in pollution and the energy-intensive nature of international trade. These concerns have in the past been overshadowed by...

Security Challenges in Fog Computing in Healthcare

Background and Aim: The Fog Computing is a highly virtualized platform that provides storage, computing and networking services between the Cloud data centers and end devices. Fog computing fits the characteristics of real-time health monitoring systems. In such systems, a large amount of data is acquired from a multitude of bio and environmental sensors. On the other hand, its distribution and...