Strengthening our Resilience to Environmental Change is a National Security Imperative

Abstract

The accelerating pace of environmental change has given rise to a challenging array of domestic and global scenarios with high potential to destabilize domestic security and geopolitical equilibrium, threatening U.S. interests at home and abroad. Regardless of the causes of environmental change, creating resilience to meet these impending challenges is a national security imperative that will require a comprehensive national-level strategy, open data sharing in strong partnership with industry, and a common resilience framework that enables consistent prioritization of adaptation investments across regions and localities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1137491

Entities

People

  • Cathy Pennington

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environmental Security
  • Floods
  • Governments
  • National Security
  • Risk
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Security
  • Storm Surges
  • United States
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design