期刊名称：ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies/Österreichische Zeitschrift für Südostasienwissenschaften
印刷版ISSN：1999-2521
电子版ISSN：1999-253X
出版年度：2010
卷号：3
期号：02
出版社：Society for South East Asian Studies/Gesellschaft für Südostasienwissenschaften
摘要：Human security is usually framed as a multidimensional concept that depends on socio-political,
economic, health-related, and ecological ‘pillars’. An assessment of human security requires an
analysis of the nested relationships between those variables. Focusing on South-East Asian countries
we illustrate how those relationships can be used to prioritise determinants of human security.
Such priorities are important because policies directed at promoting human security require defi nite
starting points and targets. What emerges is a collage of nested systems in which global and regional
environmental patterns exert the dominant infl uence. We assess the long-term human security
prospects of South-East Asian countries by comparing their ecological footprints. South-East Asia’s
major ecosystems have not yet been overly incapacitated by the impact of its human populations.
Human security policies could be much improved by addressing the growing inequities in ecological
footprints and by public education campaigns on the signifi cance of ecosystem health.
