Author: Jürgen Scheffran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 37

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Author: United Nations. Expert Group on the Study on Charting the Potential Uses of Resources Allocated to Military Activities for Civilian Endeavours to Protect the Environment
Publisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: United Nations. Expert Group on the Study on Charting the Potential Uses of Resources Allocated to Military Activities for Civilian Endeavours to Protect the Environment
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789211421910
Category : Disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Marilyn Berlin Snell
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597144614
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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An environmental journalist reveals how some California military bases are leading the charge in the fight against climate change. In California, the US military has begun to redefine how our national security operations relate to the destabilizing effects of climate change. Several bases have taken on a largely unrecognized yet crucial role in renewable-energy innovation and in preserving cultural and natural treasures. These facilities are going beyond environmental stewardship to align national defense with energy security and the protection of endangered species. In Unlikely Ally, environmental journalist Marilyn Berlin Snell takes readers through these bases to examine what twenty-first-century sustainable-energy infrastructure looks like; whether combat readiness and species protection can successfully coexist; how cutting-edge technology and water-conservation practices could transform life in a resource-constrained world; and how the Department of Defense's scientific research into the metabolic secrets of the endangered desert tortoise could speed human travel to Mars.

Author: Carlos E. Garcia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788174001
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Examines the unique potentials of worldwide military establishments for augmenting the civilian capabilities of the international community in meeting environmental challenge. Asks national Governments for a cost-benefit analysis of finding new resources for environmental protection as compared with utilizing those already allocated to the military sector. it recommends that mechanisms should be explored for making global use of national resources put at the disposal of the international community. Asks the U.N. to assume greater responsibilities for strengthening the multilateral international response to environmental emergencies.

Author: UNODA
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789210584944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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Foreword by the Secretary-General -- Letter of transmittal -- Potential uses of military-related resources for protection of the environment -- The United States department of defense critial technologies plan -- Technological capabilities of waste management -- Sensor fundamentals and applications -- Trends in computing, communications and modelling

Author: Harry D. Croft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law, International
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Neta C. Crawford
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262371928
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption. The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War shows how the U.S. economy and military together have created a deep and long-term cycle of economic growth, fossil fuel use, and dependency. This cycle has shaped U.S. military doctrine and, over the past fifty years, has driven the mission to protect access to Persian Gulf oil. Crawford shows that even as the U.S. military acknowledged and adapted to human-caused climate change, it resisted reporting its own greenhouse gas emissions. Examining the idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” in national security, she argues that the United States faces more risk from climate change than from lost access to Persian Gulf oil—or from most military conflicts. The most effective way to cut military emissions, Crawford suggests provocatively, is to rethink U.S. grand strategy, which would enable the United States to reduce the size and operations of the military.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175119
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This book examines the human factors issues associated with the development, testing, and implementation of helmet-mounted display technology in the 21st Century Land Warrior System. Because the framework of analysis is soldier performance with the system in the full range of environments and missions, the book discusses both the military context and the characteristics of the infantry soldiers who will use the system. The major issues covered include the positive and negative effects of such a display on the local and global situation awareness of the individual soldier, an analysis of the visual and psychomotor factors associated with each design feature, design considerations for auditory displays, and physical sources of stress and the implications of the display for affecting the soldier's workload. The book proposes an innovative approach to research and testing based on a three-stage strategy that begins in the laboratory, moves to controlled field studies, and culminates in operational testing.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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