书目名称 | Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security |
编辑 | Stephen Stec,Besnik Baraj (Faculty of Natural Scie |
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概述 | Critical links between security, environment and energy from transboundary, post-conflict and climate change perspectives.Highlights the fact that energy and its impact on environment, the main issue |
丛书名称 | NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security |
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描述 | 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 contribut |
出版日期 | Conference proceedings 2009 |
关键词 | Biofuels; Climate Change Mitigation; Energy and environment; biofuel; desertification; development; organi |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9453-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4020-9452-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-9453-8Series ISSN 1874-6519 Series E-ISSN 1874-6543 |
issn_series | 1874-6519 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |