Disaster Security: Using Intelligence and Military Planning for Energy and Environmental Risks
Type: Book
Description: This book is for a broad audience of practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and anyone interested in scenarios, simulations, and disaster planning. Readers are led through several different planning scenarios that have been developed over several years under the auspices of the US Department of Energy, the US Air Force, and continued work at GlobalInt LLC. These scenarios present different security challenges and their potential cascading impacts on global systems - from the melting of glaciers in the Andes, to hurricanes in New York and Hawaii, and on to hybrid disasters, cyber operations and geoengineering. The book provides a concise and up-to-date overview of the lessons learned, with a focus on innovative solutions to the world's pressing energy and environmental security challenges.
- Approaches a pressing topic in a new way, by presenting the inside story of how intelligence and military organizations plan for climate change and other environmental disasters
- Describes complex topics in an accessible and approachable way
- Provides concrete examples and lessons learned: the book is not overly theoretical, and it provides detailed narratives of how planning took place, and acknowledges both what went right and what went wrong
Authors: Miriam Matejova, Chad M. Briggs
Published by Cambridge University Press
Date: March 2019
Pages: 248
TOPICS / Subjects:
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- Adaptation
- CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
- Energy Security
- Infrastructure
- DISASTER PREVENTION
- Civil Engineering
- Capacity Building
- Disaster Training
- Risk Assessment
- DISASTER EARLY WARNING
- Emergency Alert Systems
- DISASTER RESPONSE
- Civil Military Cooperation
- Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR)
- International Mechanisms
- Best Practices
- CLIMATE AND SECURITY
- Human Security
- National Security
- International Security