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The Need for Geoscience Inputs in Civil Military Planning and Response

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The twenty-first-century world is best described by coupled human and natural systems. Within the natural system, environmental degradation, geological and hydrometeorological hazards, space weather, and climate change all interface and interact with ethnic, religious, ideological, and capability drivers creating the human systems. Increasing evidence that climate change is altering the interfaces and interactions that link human to natural subsystems is being recognized around the world reflected in civil and military policies and strategies. With the incidence of natural disasters and conflict increasing, national and foreign militaries can be expected to play a bigger role working alongside civil actors. This will increasingly be in degraded environments and often in urban settings. This requires a renewed emphasis on identifying and preventing naturally induced drivers of conflict, disasters, and humanitarian catastrophes. Understanding of the physical environment will need to be obtained using knowledge from geo-eco-bio-physical and technical fields and provided to civil military planners and responders.

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    M. H. Bulmer

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Bulmer, M.H. (2020). The Need for Geoscience Inputs in Civil Military Planning and Response. In: Guth, P. (eds) Military Geoscience. Advances in Military Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32173-4_14

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