Environment Change and National Security

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This book deals with the contemporary and controversial topic of Environment Change and National Security. Security encompasses various elements of human security that are going to be affected by the vagaries of environmental change,brought about by the relentless unsustainable development path undertaken by the mordern society.The question is no longer aboute what hte interrelations between climatechange and security are, but about when theywould be acknowleedged by hte policy-maker, rising above anarrow mindset that sees it as militarisation of the debate,rather than a human security issue. The book takes a prismatic view of the environmental change debate as observed by the military. It has to be well understood that the environmental change negotiations have the economic barometer guiding the sluice of national positions. Since without an international agreement on mitigation, the climatic situation and thereby the security environment is likely to worsen, it is paramount for the military organization to be proactive in considering this additional variable in their operational paradigm. Considering this reality, this book has, for the first time, attempted to draw a template of adaptation measures that the military organizations would need to undertake in view of not only the issues of global warming and ozone layer depletion but also due to the regulatory regimes that have arisen as a consequence of the Kyoto and Montreal Protocols. To give a holistic picture of the economics involved, the emerging areas of green industry and the great debacle of Copenhagen have been covered in detail. It has to be appreciated by the reader that management of the environment, as any other social and security issue, require god governance; more so as the scale of its adverse impact has no parallel. In India, environmental governance is in its incipient state and already fears are being expressed that it should not degenerate into license raaj. This issue has, thus, been analyzed to observe the path that we as a nation are embarking upon when dealing with the environmental change saga. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction The Environment Change Matrix Challenges for the Indian Military: Managing Ozone Depleting Substances Kyoto Protocol and the Toolkit of Good Practices for the Indian Defence Forces Climate Change and National Security: Contrarian or Interrelated? Climate Change: Challenges and Adaptation Strategies for the Military The Cauldron of Contradictions: Copenhagen Green Technology: The Dawn of a New Industry Environmental Governance Index