Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
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和平环境:新风险时代的安全
DOI:
10.55163/lcls7037
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发表时间:
2022
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通讯作者:
J. Staudenmann
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作者:
R. Black;Joshua W. Busby;G. Dabelko;Cedric de Coning;Hafsa Maalim;Claire S McAllister;Melvis Ndiloseh;Dan Smith;José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar;A. Barnhoorn;Noa Wieselberg Bell;Daniel Bell;Emilie Broek;Alexis Eberlein;Karolina Eklöw;Jakob Faller;Andrea Gadnert;Farah Hegazi;K. Kim;Florian Krampe;D. Michel;C. Pattison;C. Ray;E. Remling;Evelyn Salas Alfaro;Elizabeth Smith;J. Staudenmann
The environmental crisis is increasing risks to security and peace worldwide, notably in countries that are already fragile. Indicators of insecurity such as the number of conflicts, the number of hungry people and military expenditure are rising; so are indicators of environmental decline, in climate change, biodiversity, pollution and other areas. In combination, the security and environmental crises are creating compound, cascading, emergent, systemic and existential risks. Without profound changes of approach by institutions of authority, risks will inevitably proliferate quickly. Environment of Peace surveys the evolving risk landscape and documents a number of developments that indicate a pathway to solutions––in international law and policy, in peacekeeping operations and among non-governmental organizations. It finds that two principal avenues need to be developed: (a) combining peace-building and environmental restoration, and (b) effectively addressing the underlying environmental issues. It also analyses the potential of existing and emerging pro-environment measures for exacerbating risks to peace and security. The findings demonstrate that only just and peaceful transitions to more sustainable practices can be effective––and show that these transitions also need to be rapid.