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Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
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On 21 November 2007 the grand and elegant Delegates Hall of the
Hungarian Parliament was the scene of the opening of a conference
to discuss some of the most pressing issues of the day, those
related to our unending thirst for energy, its environmental
consequences, and the challenges that these bear on security. Over
the next 3 days scientists, parliamentarians and their guests
confronted, challenged, teased and cajoled each other in a NATO
Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled "Energy and Environmental
Challenges to Security," affirming that knowledge and public
service hold the keys to solving our greatest challenges. The
magnitude of the security challenge was confirmed while this volume
was being prepared. In mid-2008, the International Energy Agency
issued a report concluding that US$45 trillion would be needed over
the next half century to prevent energy shortages and greenhouse
gas emissions from undermining global economic growth. But lest
such large numbers cause us all to shrug, this volume brings
attention to some of the more manageable aspects of the environment
and energy security challenge - from addressing conflict resources
such as illegal timber that contribute to corruption and regional
instability, to means and mechanisms to enable the diversification
of energy supplies, to environmental risk reduction strategies for
particular installations. The participants in the Hungarian
Parliament building were atypical for a NATO Advanced Research
Workshop.
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