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Environmental Security and Climate Change: A Link to Homeland Security

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Published/Copyright: June 17, 2014

Abstract

It is time to broaden our thinking on the concept of homeland security and recognize the degree to which environmental security, and in particular climate change, affects US homeland security equities. Understanding how environmental security became a national security issue may be beneficial as the homeland security community seeks to understand the emerging issue of climate change and strategic documents linking climate change and homeland security.


Corresponding author: Kent Hughes Butts, Penn State-HLS/SPA, 777 West Harrisburg Pike Middletown, PA 17057, USA, Tel.: +717-385-2287, e-mail: ;

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