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Environmental Risk and Sustainability

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In 1999 the State of the Future Project of the United Nations University started a study on Environmental Security. The results of this study are documented in Glenn and Gordon [1–4]. The first issue that arose involved definition. What is environmental security? It became clear that people (and governments) understood the term to mean three very different things. To the US the word “security” indicated a military involvement. Environmental security to them thus meant any environmental issue with which the military may have to deal. This ranged from the environmental aspects of military bases, to the threat of warfare because of environmental issues such as water scarcity. To China, the term environmental security was synonymous with the protection of the environment. The third meaning of the term involved the security of people as a result of non-military assaults, such as global warming, on the environment.

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Beer, T. (2003). Environmental Risk and Sustainability. In: Beer, T., Ismail-Zadeh, A. (eds) Risk Science and Sustainability. NATO Science, vol 112. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0167-0_6

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