Sustainability and National Security
Sustainability and Environmental Security Odelia Funke 5 ...
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Survival requires that societies adopt policies that support their ability to grow and change over time in the pursuit of key in ...
bility. These kinds of effects can spill into the interna- tional arena and with dramatic security consequences. Other nations a ...
This chapter will consider sustainability from an environmental security perspective. The discussion will briefly trace the envi ...
in terms of military might and technologies (and the economy to support them). In the 1980s, some began to challenge the idea th ...
Gross abuses and environmental degradation in the former Soviet Union—with a correspondingly reduced average life expectancy, my ...
tion, including issues related to defense facilities and weapons, but also to some civilian industries, and to managing infectio ...
tee on the Challenges of Modern Society, created an environmental program which included assistance for cleanup in Eastern Europ ...
by the newly formed Army Environmental Policy In- stitute (AEPI). The U.S. Army later codified the ef- forts of AEPI and the ann ...
1, 2002); reversing the commitment to arms limitation and withdrawal from ABM Treaty (Owens 2009); and undertaking a massive def ...
shaking Middle Eastern states. These issues demand attention and political capital. Pressing environmen- tal issues receive less ...
Dec. 2010, and a Department of Energy loans program in addition to its partnership with industry to accel- erate the development ...
job protection, as well as placating political factions. The President did not use this as an opportunity to demand a commitment ...
tal concerns with practical needs. Pressuring the mili- tary to embrace values and practices of sustainabil- ity in the 1990s wa ...
ple, the Army built a solar energy plant at Fort Irwin to achieve energy independence or ‘zero gain’ from commercial electrical ...
to mitigate some of the risks. Energy conservation is a military planning objective for both domestic instal- lations and in war ...
Developments in Russia—Soviet Legacy to Putin and /Medvedev-Putin Tandem Abuses in the Soviet era resulted in a broad range of e ...
By the late 1990s, it was becoming clear that eco- nomic hardship as well as the war in Chechnya had si- phoned off a large amou ...
Opponents successfully blamed the liberals for the economic crisis of the 1990s, as shown by surveys conducted in 2006 (Kolesnic ...
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