Workshop: Environment and Security Science and the U.S. National Security Community

美国国家安全机构越来越多地将环境变化考虑纳入评估、准备和操作层面。与环境有关的国家安全问题的范围已从几乎只关注发展中国家的因果关系和暴力冲突，扩大到包括利用环境评估和合作在其业务领域建立信任和信心，并作为更好地了解广泛的外交和安全政策领域的风险的手段。然而，国家安全从业人员通常没有结构、机会或明确的动机来长期参与广泛的研究议程和发现。国家安全界通常通过委托应用研究与环境学者合作，针对特定的持续问题，这项工作的发现通常是专有的。因此，无论是环境研究人员还是国家安全从业人员，对各自领域之间的联系的理解都很有限。本次研讨会和参与工作建立在美国环境与安全研究和实践者近30年的历史基础上，这些研究和实践者的努力多样但相对有限，旨在扩大研究人员与实践者之间的对话，并确定该领域的关键环境科学问题。本次研讨会将汇集从事环境安全主题研究的学者、相关科学领域的环境研究人员以及国家安全从业人员。计划中的结构化对话将1)发展更广泛的环境和安全研究人员-实践者联系，2)扩大学者和实践者的数量，他们对研究和实践中的关键参与者和工具有更多的了解，3)建立对环境和安全研究现状的共同理解，4)确定与安全考虑相关的关键环境科学问题，5)确定具体的研究机会和挑战。该研讨会将促进环境科学和工程研究界与美国国家安全界成员之间对问题、方法和研究的更好理解。研讨会参与者将确定有希望的科学研究路线，可能有助于促进国家福利和确保国防。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

U.S. national security institutions increasingly incorporate environmental change considerations into assessment, preparation, and operational dimensions. The scope of environmentally-related national security questions has broadened from a near exclusive focus on causality and violent conflict onset in developing countries to include the use of environmental assessment and cooperation to build trust and confidence in their areas of operation and as a means of better understanding of risks in a wide range of foreign and security policy arenas. However, national security practitioners typically do not have the structures, opportunities, or clear incentives to have longer-term engagement with a broad range of research agendas and findings. The national security community typically engages with environmental scholars through commissioned applied research targeted at specific ongoing problems and the findings of this work are often proprietary. Therefore, both environmental researchers and national security practitioners have limited understandings of the connections between their domains. This workshop and engagement effort builds on a nearly thirty-year history of U.S. environment and security research and practitioner efforts, that are diverse yet relatively limited, to expand the dialogue between researchers and practitioners and to identify key environmental science questions in this area.This workshop will bring together scholars who conduct research on environmental security topics, environmental researchers from across the spectrum of relevant sciences, and national security practitioners. The planned structured dialogue will 1) develop a wider set of environment and security researcher-practitioner connections, 2) expand the number of scholars and practitioners with greater knowledge of the key actors and tools across both the research and practice, 3) build a shared understanding of the state of environment and security research, 4) identify key environmental science questions relevant to security considerations, and 5) identify specific research opportunities and challenges. The workshop will facilitate greater understanding of questions, methods, and research between members of the environmental science and engineering research community and U.S. national security community. Workshop participants will identify promising lines of scientific inquiry likely to contribute to advancing the national welfare and securing the national defense.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.