Environmental Management Systems, Reliability Management, and Vulnerability Assessments: Potential within Contemporary Security Settings

摘要

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has defined environmental security as "a process whereby solutions to environmental problems contribute to national security objectives." There are many non-military threats to national security, and several of these are associated with environmental conditions or competition for natural resources. Environmental stress is viewed as deriving from scarcity and resource degradation. It is most easily understood from the perspective of constraints, or "encroachment." Conflict and environmental stress are shown to be related in complex ways. And success in managing conflict is one aspect of overall national security.