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- Analyzes the anticipated security consequences of climate change
- Identifies near-term actions for NATO to improve its risk governance
- Applies the Risk Governance Framework to NATO
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This book offers a prospective analysis of the anticipated security consequences of climate change in relation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Using climate and security literature to complement recent foresight and scenario analysis developed by NATO, the author applies the International Risk Governance Council’s (IRGC) Risk Governance Framework to identify the considerations and actions that could assist NATO in a context where climate and environmental factors more intensively shape security. Tyler Lippert explores how climate change has the potential to increase the need for humanitarian assistance and disaster response, to create tension over shared resources, to renew and enhance geo-political interest in the Arctic, and to deepen concern with respect to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Within this new political and environmental reality, NATO must consider how to adapt to meet new demands, prepare for new security challenges, as well as manageunforeseen consequences.
Offering a corrective, this book identifies near-term actions for NATO to improve its risk governance posture, providing a basis upon which longer-range policy considerations can be developed. This analysis is only the opening salvo of what is likely to be a complicated process that spans many years, if not decades. However, in mapping the risk governance dimensions to the security and climate nexus from the perspective of NATO, Lippert provides a foundation for risk-based policy planning for NATO. The book will be of immense value to policy and decision makers: NATO leadership and its affiliated organizations as well as to academics across a broad span of subject areas, particularly environmental sociology, defense and foreign policy, and the political sciences.
Offering a corrective, this book identifies near-term actions for NATO to improve its risk governance posture, providing a basis upon which longer-range policy considerations can be developed. This analysis is only the opening salvo of what is likely to be a complicated process that spans many years, if not decades. However, in mapping the risk governance dimensions to the security and climate nexus from the perspective of NATO, Lippert provides a foundation for risk-based policy planning for NATO. The book will be of immense value to policy and decision makers: NATO leadership and its affiliated organizations as well as to academics across a broad span of subject areas, particularly environmental sociology, defense and foreign policy, and the political sciences.
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“Even as evidence of climate change mounts, there remains an incomplete understanding of what a changed climate truly means for society, or how institutions should evolve to prepare for it. In this book, Tyler H. Lippert explores the latter question with a high level risk governance analysis of NATO in the context of climate change. In a world in which concern about the future looms ever larger, this book takes several ground breaking steps to help one particular institution identify the way forward to meet the challenges of climate change, and provides an important example that other organizations can follow.” (Admiral Jim Stavridis, USA)
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About the author
Tyler H. Lippert earned a Ph.D. from the RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California, USA where he conducted policy research and analysis for RAND Corporation. He also holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, USA. Tyler served as the Editor in Chief of the Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, and served in a variety of roles throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, and on multiple occasions with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: NATO, Climate Change, and International Security
Book Subtitle: A Risk Governance Approach
Authors: Tyler H. Lippert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14560-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14559-0Published: 22 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14560-6Published: 11 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 263
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy, Environmental Politics, International Relations, Political Science