Understanding International Environmental Security: A Strategic Military Perspective.

摘要

Environmental security (ES), viewed as a process for addressing environmental issues potentially affecting U.S. national security, has significant implications for national military defense. This paper analyzes the concepts, threats and opportunities. It uses a five-step development: paint an overview of the significance of ES; examine the knotty problems of ES definition; provide a primer in lay terms of the cross-cutting population trends and scientifically based environmental issues of climate change, land use and water use; using a geographic information systems analysis approach, analyze the total complex and list proposed, appropriate military missions; and summarize the national security implications of ES issues with recommended actions.