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Militarizing the Environment
As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in \"climate change war games,\" and preparing for the effects of climate change-from conflicts due to loss of food, water, and energy to the mass migration of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels. This combat-oriented stance stems from a self-destructive pattern of thought that Robert P. Marzec names \"environmentality,\" an attitude that has been affecting human-environmental relations since the seventeenth century.
Militarizing the Environmenttraces the rise of this influential mindset in America and other nations that threatens to supplant ideas of sustainability with demands for adaptation. In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security society-informing the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War.
Now embedded in contemporary Western thought, environmentality has even infiltrated scientific thinking-transforming Darwinian insights into a quasi-theology that makes security the biological basis of existence. Marzec exposes the self-destructive nature of this increasingly accepted worldview and offers alternatives that counter the blind alleys of national and global security.
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Green crime in West Africa: uncovering the threats to human security and ecosystem integrity in Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Senegal
The perpetration and negative consequences of green crime in West Africa are not a recent development. The recent emergence of discussions on the region's security has primarily focused on environmental security and climate change, with its incursion into discourses being a relatively recent development. Moreover, the discourse surrounding green crime frequently confines itself to topics such as the illicit trade of wildlife and illegal logging. Although the aforementioned concerns are of utmost importance, it is imperative to acknowledge that various other types of green crime, including but not limited to contamination of water, land, and air due to unlawful disposal of hazardous waste and unauthorized mining activities, pose substantial threats to human security and warrant due consideration. The objective of this study is to analyze the occurrence of environmental offenses in West Africa, specifically in Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Senegal. The research will concentrate on the examination of green crimes in these countries. The study endeavors to offer an understanding of the frequency and consequences of green crimes in the aforementioned nations, with a specific focus on their implications for human security, through the use of secondary data sources. The purpose of this paper is to argue for the securitization of green crime in the region and provide a framework for both state and non-state actors to respond to this issue.
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ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY ENSURING
Industrial enterprise environmental security assessment refers to the assessment and analysis of industrial environmental security measures and vulnerabilities to protect against potential threats and risks to the environment. By conducting an environmental security assessment, industrial companies can proactively identify and eliminate security gaps, reduce the potential impact on the environment, and ensure compliance with regulatory acts. The article's purpose is to assess the industrial enterprises' environmental security level, transform strategies to reduce environmental risks, and formulate recommendations for simultaneously increasing economic and environmental security.Our study presents an improved structured methodology for constructing an environmental security indicator system for industrial enterprises. Unlike conventional approaches, the proposed method follows a systematic sequence that includes defining the objectives and diagnostic tasks, collecting and processing relevant data, and ultimately forming a comprehensive indicator system. Central to this approach is the development of an integral indicator that reflects the overall level of environmental security. This indicator is derived from a balanced set of socio-economic, technical-technological, scientific-innovative, and managerial-organizational dimensions, incorporating both internal and external factors influencing enterprise operations. The uniqueness of the proposed model lies in its use of a geometric mean to synthesize integral indicators across the economic, ecological, and social domains, while accounting for the relative significance of each component. This weighting mechanism ensures a more accurate and nuanced assessment by recognizing the differential impact of individual indicators on overall environmental security. The level of environmental security was calculated for three companies in the railway transport industry.Also, we form the strategies to mitigate environmental risks, which allow the industrial enterprises to enhance both economic resilience and ecological integrity, and to improve their overall security. In addition, we proposed recommendations for simultaneously improving the economic and environmental security of industrial enterprises.
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Green computing in network security : energy efficient solutions for business and home
\"This book focuses on green computing-based network security techniques and addresses the challenges involved in practical implementation. It also explores the idea of energy-efficient computing for network and data security and covers the security threats involved in social networks, data centers, IoT, and biomedical applications. Green Computing in Network Security: Energy Efficient Solutions for Business and Home includes analysis of green-security mechanisms and explores the role of green computing for secured modern internet applications. It discusses green computing-based distributed learning approaches for security and emphasizes the development of green computing-based security systems for IoT devices. Written with researchers, academic libraries, and professionals in mind so they can get up to speed on network security, the challenges, and implementation processes\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Energy, governance and security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma)
Based on extensive fieldwork in the region this ground-breaking book explores the important role that environmental movements from these countries are playing in promoting effective energy and environmental governance. By comparing the nature of this activism under two very different political regimes, Adam Simpson provides crucial theoretical insights for sustainable resource development in the South.
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Security and the environment : securitisation theory and US environmental security policy
\"In 1993 the Clinton Administration declared environmental security a national security issue, but by the end of the Bush Administration environmental policy had vanished from the government's agenda. This book uses changing US policy to propose a revised securitisation theory, one that both allows insights into the intentions of key actors and enables moral evaluations in the environmental sector of security. Security and the Environment brings together the subject of environmental security and the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory. Drawing on original interviews with former key players in United States environmental security, Rita Floyd makes a significant and original contribution to environmental security studies and security studies more generally. This book will be of interest to international relations scholars and political practitioners concerned with security, as well as students of international environmental politics and US policy making\"--Provided by publisher.
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Climate Security and Policy Options in Japan
Climate security has been discussed in both academia and policy documents in the West. A key point that surfaces from these discussions is that the cooperation of non-military organizations is essential for effective responses to climate change-related threats. This overlaps considerably with debates on security in Japan, where the use of force is constitutionally restricted. Therefore, it is possible to localize the concept of climate security to the genealogy of Japan’s security policy that, in the 1980s and 1990s, sought a non-traditional security strategy that did not rely solely on military power in the name of “comprehensive security,” “environmental security,” and “human security.” In Japan, the perspective of climate security is rare. However, the introduction of a unique climate security concept into security policy enables the maintenance of national security and environmental conservation. Additionally, struggling with climate change alongside neighboring countries contributes to mutual confidence building and stability in international relations in Northeast Asia. To achieve this objective, we first show that climate security includes many kinds of security concerns by surveying previous studies and comparing Western countries’ climate security policies. Second, we follow the evolution of Japan’s security policy from 1980 to 2021. Finally, we review Japanese climate security policies and propose policy options.
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