Sentence examples for Environmental security from inspiring English sources

Environmental security scholars believe that these rural conflicts are manifestations of herder-farmer conflict based on competition for land and natural resources, fuelled by climate change such as desertification in the Sahel (Homer-Dixon [1999]; Herskovits [2010]).

"National security and environmental security are mutually reinforcing".

We managed to survive the cold war, but the challenges to our environmental security remain.

It said the move would "safeguard environmental security" and was "conducive to China's development interests".

But with the construction of the hydropower station entering its final phase, "environmental security" represented the new challenge, he said.

Facing a future with neither environmental security nor fair remuneration, Mr. Linggi lamented, "We are in a corner now, with no place to go".

"This issue is really about balancing national security with our environmental security, and the Pentagon has shown in the past that we can do it," Mr. Lautenberg said.

This gives the local community more financial, social and environmental security and allows a wider economic benefit through the setup of support businesses.

Kalron, whose father was an Israeli Air Force colonel who trained pilots for the Kenya Wildlife Service, is the founder of Maisha Consulting, an environmental-security organization that conducts wildlife-oriented anti-poaching, anti-trafficking, and intelligence operations in Africa.

One the most immediate tasks facing Ron Gatto, director of the county's Department of Environmental Security is creating security plans at the county's sewage treatment plants and waste transfer stations, calling for more security guards, surveillance cameras and alarm systems.

528 pp. ISBN: 1-84564-026-8, $325 EnviRoleental Security and Envirofmental Management: The Risk of Risk Assessment [NATO Security through Science Series] Benoit Morel, Igor Linkov, eds.