Environment and Security: Core Ideas and US Government Initiatives

Segurança E Proteção Da Amazônia Em Tempos De Crise E Escassez: Um Estudo De Caso

“…ISSN 2317-7721 pp. 1380-1421 1411 acordo com Dabelko & Simmons (1997), os republicanos no congresso americano e líderes militares opõem-se às operações não militares, no sentido de que dispersam tempo e recursos das suas funções principais. O argumento para os planejadores de segurança mais conservadores é que as forças armadas são sacrificadas operacionalmente quando se envolvem nas atividades não tradicionais como as relacionadas à proteção ambiental.…”

The Ambiguities of “Environmental” Conflict: Insights from the Tolukuma Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea

“…Of these, the early empirical studies directed by Thomas Homer-Dixon (e.g., 1999) are the most highly cited, and arguably the most influential on policymaking (as explained by Simmons 1997 andGriffiths 1997). These studies, as well as a project directed by Guenther Baechler (e.g., 1999), examined cases of violent conflict, and they then sought to determine the influence of environmental factors in the generation of these conflicts.…”

A recurring anarchy? The emergence of climate change as a threat to international peace and security

“…With Cold War-related security issues on the wane, US policymakers began looking more closely at non-traditional security concerns such as environmental change, poverty and diseases such as HIV/AIDs. 9 In so doing the idea of what constituted 'state security' expanded beyond the risk of direct military aggression from hostile states to more nuanced concerns about the regional instability that could affect economic security and draw Western governments into regional conflicts. Research of this type included studies that worried about the role of fresh water shortages as a potential trigger for violent conflict; 10 that pointed to land degradation as a source of conflict between agriculturalists and pastoralists in the Horn of Africa; 11 and that explored the ecological and demographic origins of the Rwandan genocide.…”