Review – Security and Environmental Change
Dalby’s book provides an inspiring conceptual framework to deal with environmental security. Whilst worthy of further study, it is built on a restricted perception of reality.
The Convergence of Cyberspace and Sustainability
There is an emerging synergy between cyberspace and sustainability as they converge on the global policy agenda.
The U.S. Navy – Navigating Through a Changing Climate
Predicting the range of future challenges is no easy matter, but it is a necessary part of how military organizations prepare, invest in platforms and weapon systems, conduct training, and concentrate their forces.
What to Do? The Climate Security Policy Conundrum
One of the dominant themes of this entire literature is that physical exposure is not destiny. Governance and political dynamics are as, if not more, important in explaining whether or not environmental shocks, scarcity, and abundance lead to conflict.
Climate Change and the Military
While knowledge about the impact of climate change on the role of militaries is scant, planning for a future with climate change has begun.
Climate Change, the Laws of War and the Military
The laws of war may need to be amended in order to protect those facilities and components such as forests and flood defences that societies will rely upon in the future to protect us from the impacts of climate change.
Assessing the Risk of Global Climate Change on the Australian Defence Force
While other militaries around the world have taken notice of climate change and are now acting, defence planners and policy elite in Australia are pre-occupied by global power shifts. In confining climate change as a third order issue, they are overlooking major risks.
A Marshall Plan to Combat Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific
The United States is officially reorienting its security and defense strategy to the Asia-Pacific region, but the United States needs a complementary investment agenda for building the region’s resilience to climate change.
Climate Change, Environmental Security Studies and the Morality of Climate Security
In popular and political debate climate change is increasingly referred to as a security issue. But thus far climate change does not constitute an objective existential threat, and as such, a securitization of climate change – at least here in the West – is morally unjustifiable.
Avoiding a Zero-Sum Water-Energy End Game: Bring It to Rio+20
It seems that there is an inverse relationship between water and energy security, but is this scenario real or imagined? Although it is only one step, the incorporation of the water-energy nexus into the Rio+20 agenda would help to improve our understanding of sustainability.
