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Environmental Security and Environmental Management: The Role of Risk Assessment: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workhop on the Role of Ris

Environmental Security and Environmental Management: The Role of Risk Assessment: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workhop on the Role of Ris

Morel, Benoit
Linkov, Igor

Paperback

Series: NATO Security Through Science Series C:

EconomicsBiologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 1402038925
ISBN13: 9781402038921
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 6 2005
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The concept of environmental security has emerged as one basis for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of the environment in the future. In the same way that energy security is about ensuring access to energy for the long run, it can also mean that pressing environmental concerns create a situation where different countries and communities are forced to collaboratively design a unified response, even if cooperation is not generally in the logic of their relations. Over the last several years, the authors of this book and their colleagues have tried to demonstrate the power of risk assessment and decision analysis as valuable tools that decision makers should use for a broad range of environmental problems, including environmental security. Risk analysis is almost more a state of mind or a way of looking at problems than it is a kind of algorithm or a set of recipes. It projects a kind of rationality on problems and forces a certain degree of quantitative rigor, as opposed to the all too common tendency of making environmental recommendations based on anecdotal evidence.

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