Abstract:
This research project develops new knowledge of how U.S. national security and
homeland security practitioners and policymakers understand, define, and could yield
value from the concept of environmental security to meet their mission, policy, and
operational challenges. The project does so by achieving three primary objectives. First,
it captures U.S. national security and homeland security practitioners' and policymakers'
understandings and definitions of environmental security. Second, based upon those
understandings and definitions, it identifies common attributes that conceptually bridge,
operationalize, and could add value to these groups' existing mission, policy, and
operational responsibilities. Finally, based upon these analyses, it develops a better
understanding of current functional capability needs and resources within U.S. national
security and homeland security communities of practice.
