Disaster security : using intelligence and military planning for energy and environmental risks / Chad M. Briggs, Johns Hopkins University, Miriam Matejova, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- Author:
- Briggs, Chad M., 1972-
- Published:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 235 pages ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Matejova, Miriam
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Toward Disaster Security -- Approaches to Energy and Environmental Security -- Energy and Environmental Security: The Past, the Present, and the Future -- Conclusion and Book Structure -- 2.Environmental Disasters and Risk Assessment -- Hazards, Risks, Threats, and Vulnerability -- The Nature of Risk Assessment -- Why Do We Fail to Predict the Predictable? -- Complex Systems, Interconnectivity, and the Need for New Risk Assessment Approaches -- Conclusion -- 3.Scenario Planning and Complex Scenario Approach -- Why Scenarios? The Origins and Significance of Scenario Planning -- Complex Risk Scenarios -- Complex Scenario Creation -- Conclusion -- 4.From Lima to New York -- The Nature of Abrupt Climate Change -- Assessing Energy and Environmental Security Risks in Peru -- Anticipating Sandy -- Conclusion -- 5.From Pearl Harbor to Pearl Harbor -- Surprise Attacks and Weak Signals -- Methane Hydrates Scenarios -- The Need for the Hawaiian Scenarios -- The Pacific Tropical Storm Scenarios -- Conclusion -- 6.Beyond Scenarios: Wargames, Simulations, and Net Assessment -- Why Wargames? -- Wargaming: Main Ingredients -- Wargaming for Disaster Security: Three Examples -- Exercises and Disaster Risks: Wargaming the Pacific -- Conclusion -- 7.Hybrid Disasters and Security -- Hybrid Warfare and Resilience Targeting -- Hybrid Warfare and Energy and Environment Security Risks -- Creating Disasters in Ukraine -- Geoengineering and Global Disaster Security -- Conclusion -- 8.Obstacles and Opportunities -- Anti-science Attitudes and Climate Change Denial -- Uncertainty: Assessment, Amplification, Communication -- Institutional Rationality and Mission -- Secrecy as an Obstacle to Communicating Complex EES Risks -- Conclusion -- 9.Planning for the Uncertain Future -- Looking into the Future: Abrupt Changes and the Energy-Water Nexus -- Developing New, Complex Scenarios -- Conclusion.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781108472357 hardcover alkaline paper
1108472354 hardcover alkaline paper
9781108459372 paperback
1108459374 paperback - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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