PSY 005 Lecture 13:
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Security the state of being free from danger or threat // insecurity lack of protection (philo, 2001) Big s" security concerns on a bigger scale, e. g. national or global stage (war) Small s" domestic issues related to security (gang in a town: threats to security. Alighting on the spaces set aside for securing" detaining, locking up/away problematic populations of one kind or another. Exploring geographies of the war on terror. Physical geographers can monitor, measure, map and model how such changes are tied into shifting topographies, rising sea-levels/lowering coastlines and altered biomasses and therefore can evaluate the fragility or sustainability of particular physical landscape. Uk"s leading government agency in applying science and technology to the defence and security of the uk; part of the ministry of defence. It provides uk government with sensitive and specialist research, advice, analysis, risk management and assurance.