Integrated Risk Assessment and Security

Abstract

It is difficult to assess the risk to security caused by environmental change because the relationship between environmental stress and security is indirect. Environmental stress may cause a series of consequences such as political, economic, social and demographic, and these consequences impact on the potential incidence or escalation of conflict. As we know, the environmental, economic and social issues are interdependent and cannot be pursued separately. The purpose of this effort is to introduce the integrated risk assessment as a practical tool for identifying the potential conflict and consequently the threat to security.