Environment And National Security

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309278562
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate and Social Stress written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events-slowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to expect to be surprised by the way in which these events may cascade, or have far-reaching effects. During the coming decade, certain climate-related events will produce consequences that exceed the capacity of the affected societies or global systems to manage; these may have global security implications. Although focused on events outside the United States, Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis recommends a range of research and policy actions to create a whole-of-government approach to increasing understanding of complex and contingent connections between climate and security, and to inform choices about adapting to and reducing vulnerability to climate change.

Author : Josh Busby
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and National Security written by Josh Busby and published by Council on Foreign Relations Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connections between climate change and national security are receiving unprecedented attention from policymakers and analysts. In this report, Joshua W. Busby moves the discussion from broad assessments of the links between climate and security to a plan for action.

Author : Robert Mournighan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387230207
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chemistry for the Protection of the Environment 4 written by Robert Mournighan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-01-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings provide a forum for chemical scientists and engineers dedicated to making a cleaner, healthier world for everyone. They cover a wide range of related subjects such as environmental monitoring, wastewater treatment, and sludge management.

Author : Kurt M. Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815701551
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climatic Cataclysm written by Kurt M. Campbell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, oceanography, history, political science, foreign policy, and national security to take the measure of these risks. The contributors have developed three scenarios of what the future may hold. The expected scenario relies on current scientific models to project the effects of climate change over the next 30 years. The severe scenario, which posits a much stronger climate response to current levels of carbon loading, foresees profound and potentially destabilizing global effects over the next generation or more. Finally, the catastrophic scenario is characterized by a devastating "tipping point" in the climate system, perhaps 50 or 100 years hence. In this future world, the land-based polar ice sheets have disappeared, global sea levels have risen dramatically, and the existing natural order has been destroyed beyond repair. The contributors analyze the security implications of these scenarios, which at a minimum include increased disease proliferation; tensions caused by large-scale migration; and conflict sparked by resource scarcity, particularly in Africa. They consider what we can learn from the experience of early civilizations confronted with natural disaster, and they ask what the three largest emitters of greenhouse gases—the United States, the European Union, and China—can do to reduce and manage future risks. In the coming decade, the United States faces an ominous set of foreign policy and national security challenges. Global climate change will not only complicate these tasks, but as this sobering study reveals, it may also create new challenges that dwarf those of today. Contributors include Leon Fuerth (George Washington University), Jay Gulledge (Pew Center on Global Climate Change), Alexander T. J. Lennon (Center for Strategic and International Studies), J.R. McNeil

Author : Jon Barnett
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856497862
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Environmental Security written by Jon Barnett and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Barnett takes on the military-industrial interests of those in the establishment to reveal how ordinary human beings must have a safe environment in which security is subordinate to care of the planet and its delicate ecosystems.

Author : Narottam Gaan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment and National Security written by Narottam Gaan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard A. Matthew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351607537
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Environmental Security written by Richard A. Matthew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook on Environmental Security provides a comprehensive, accessible, and sophisticated overview of the field of environmental security. The volume outlines the defining theories, major policy and programming interventions, and applied research surrounding the relationship between the natural environment and human and national security. Through the use of large-scale research and ground-level case analyses from across the globe, it details how environmental factors affect human security and contribute to the onset and continuation of violent conflict. It also examines the effects of violent conflict on the social and natural environment and the importance of environmental factors in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Organized around the conflict cycle, the handbook is split into four thematic sections: • Section I: Environmental factors contributing to conflict; • Section II: The environment during conflict; • Section III: The role of the environment in post-conflict peacebuilding; and • Section IV: Cross-cutting themes and critical perspectives. This handbook will be essential reading for students of environmental studies, human security, global governance, development studies, and international relations in general.

Author : Peter Hough
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134696108
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Security written by Peter Hough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This student-friendly textbook offers a survey of the competing conceptions and applications of the increasingly prominent notion of environmental security. The book is divided into three sections. In the first, the key theoretical and practical arguments for and against bringing together environmental and security issues are set out. The book then goes on to present how and why environmental issues have come to be framed in some quarters as ‘national security‘ concerns in the context of the effects of overpopulation, resource depletion, climate change and the role of the military as both a cause and a solution to problems of pollution and natural disasters. Finally, the third section explores the case for treating the key issues of environmental change as matters of human security. Overall, the book will provide a clear, systematic and thorough overview of all dimensions of an area of great academic and ‘real-world’ political interest but one that has rarely been set out in an accessible textbook format hitherto. This book will be essential reading for students of environmental studies, critical and human security, global governance, development studies, and IR in general.

Author : Michael Renner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Security written by Michael Renner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kent Hughes Butts
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428914846
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Security written by Kent Hughes Butts and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: