Global Security and Energy, Water and Environmental Concerns
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Global challenges demand that we expand our understanding of technology and its intersection with other international issues. Energy, water, and environmental concerns are of paramount importance to national and global security issues, which must incorporate an understanding of energy, climate change, and water scarcity as new dimensions of security. Many countries increasingly see these issues as vital to their national security. Examples range from China's view of energy security to Afghanistan's view of maternal health to Bangladesh's view of global climate change. The U.S is just beginning to explore the incorporation of such issues into their national security policy --despite the realization that our future is linked more closely than ever with others due to interconnections among our economies and the transnational nature of many threats to our mutual security. This session will examine the implications of the connections among energy, water and climate change for global security needs, and use case studies to illuminate questions in four areas: the tradeoffs and Implications of employing a broad definition of national security, including the potential militarization of energy, climate change and water scarcity issues; the ways in which climate change impacts in other parts of the world can affect global security; water shortages and resultant threats to economic and national security; and the energy security dimensions of national security
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Moderator
Charlette A Geffen
Director for the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Panelists
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Sean J. Kreyling
Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Elizabeth L. Malone
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laborator
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Richard Skaggs
Larry G. Morgan
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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