AC/UNU Millennium Project
Environmental Security: United Nations Doctrine for
Managing Environmental Issues in Military Actions
by Joe B. Sills, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Renat Perelet
A three-year international assessment of global changes conducted by
the Millennium Project identified fifteen global challenges facing the
world, reaching into most facets of change, from prospective water shortages
to moral and ethical issues. Of the fifteen challenges, six are environmentally
related. Environmental threats may well outweigh military threats in the
future. This report is an investigation into the roles that might be required
of the UN and related international organizations, as well as the conventions
and protocols that might be involved in the resolution of future threats
to environmental security.
Acknowledgments
The Millennium Project of The American Council for the United Nations
University gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Tamami Onaka, Jay
Austin, John McDonald, William Jewett, Elizabeth Florescu, Azusa Kubota,
John Young, Joanie Newman, interviewees who are listed in Appendix A, and
AEPI staff.
Free copies can be ordered from The Army Environmental
Policy Institute; please contact John J.Fittipaldi <John.Fittipaldi@hqda.army.mil>.
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
1.
UN ROLE: ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF CONFLICT
1.1 Environmental Security in Doctrine
1.2 Environmental Security in UN Peacekeeping Operations
1.3 Environmental Consideration in Past Conflict
2.
UN ROLE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY ISSUES THAT COULD LEAD TO CONFLICT
3.
SCENARIO SKETCHES
4.
FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS
5.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDICES
Appendix A: List
of Participants
Appendix B. A
Current Example of the UN's Role Evolved in Environmental Security: NATO’s
bombing campaign in Yugoslavia
Appendix C: United
Nations Environmental Mediation Program (UNEMP)
Appendix D: Web
sites that have useful information related to Environmental Security and
International Treaties, Conventions, and Protocols
Environmental
Security Study
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