INTRODUCTION
1. Traditionalist charge that wider agenda makes the subject incoherent and formulates security to incorporate and formulates security to incorporate the agenda. Traditionalist security patterns has considerable power to explain and predict both the formation of durable regional patterns of security relations and the patterns of outside intervention in these regions.
2. Barry Buzan in his book, people are affected by threats in different areas other than military, such as in political, economic, societal and environmental sectors. He maintains that individuals, states and the international system all play significant roles. All facets of life including economic, societal and environmental must be regarded as being as important as military and political. Buzan goes so far as to define the five security sectors, one of the security sector are environmental security which concerns the maintenance of the local and the planetary biosphere as the essential support system on which all other hu biosphere man enterprises depend(Buzan 1991, 19-20).
3. The military sector in about relationships of forceful coercion, the political sector is about relationships of authority, governing status and recognition, the economic sector is about relationships of trade, production and finance, the societal sector is about relationships of collective identity and the environmental sector is about relationships between human activity and the planetary biosphere.
AIM
4. Aims is to highlight the environmental security a new framework for analysis.
SCOPE
5. Scope of this paper will cover agenda as follows:
a. Definitions.
b. What is Environmental Security?
c. The Environmental Security Agenda.
d. Security Actors and Referent Objects.
e. The Logic of Threats and Vulnerabilities.
f. Summary.
DEFINITIONS 6. Environment. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines ‘environment’ as