PERSPECTIVE: Cultivating Strategic Foresight for Energy and Environmental Security

Bray, David A; Costigan, Sean; Daum, Keith; Lavoix, Helene; Malone, Elizabeth L; Pallaris, Chris

doi:10.1017/S1466046609990081

Title: PERSPECTIVE: Cultivating Strategic Foresight for Energy and Environmental Security

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Disastrous social, economic, and political instability can result from limited energy resources or deteriorating environmental conditions. Historically, understanding and preparing for potential turbulent events posed significant challenges for governments, due in part to complex connections and dependencies associated with multiple, inter-related issues. Moving forward, we propose world governments can better mitigate and even avert energy and environmental disasters by cultivating a shared, diverse community of physical and social scientists, engineers, security analysts, and other professionals from related fields to share concerns, discuss ideas, and coalesce key concepts from the vast amount of data available about energy and environmental issues. Bringing relevant parties from multiple disciplines into a dynamic, diverse, and more transparent forum will produce a greater range of discussion, deliberation, and feasible solutions to help address uncertain, global energy and environmental concerns of both the present-day and our future.

Authors:: Bray, David A; Costigan, Sean; Daum, Keith; Lavoix, Helene; Malone, Elizabeth L; Pallaris, Chris

Publication Date:: Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009

Research Org.:: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 973707

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-68283
TRN: US201006%%948

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Environmental Practice, 11(03):209-211

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 3

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; GLOBAL ASPECTS; ENERGY SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MITIGATION; ACCIDENTS; foresight; energy security; environmental security

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                    Bray, David A, Costigan, Sean, Daum, Keith, Lavoix, Helene, Malone, Elizabeth L, and Pallaris, Chris. PERSPECTIVE: Cultivating Strategic Foresight for Energy and Environmental Security.  United States: N. p., 2009. 
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                    Bray, David A, Costigan, Sean, Daum, Keith, Lavoix, Helene, Malone, Elizabeth L, & Pallaris, Chris. PERSPECTIVE: Cultivating Strategic Foresight for Energy and Environmental Security.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S1466046609990081

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                    Bray, David A, Costigan, Sean, Daum, Keith, Lavoix, Helene, Malone, Elizabeth L, and Pallaris, Chris. 2009.  
        "PERSPECTIVE: Cultivating Strategic Foresight for Energy and Environmental Security".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S1466046609990081.

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  title        = {PERSPECTIVE: Cultivating Strategic Foresight for Energy and Environmental Security},

  author       = {Bray, David A and Costigan, Sean and Daum, Keith and Lavoix, Helene and Malone, Elizabeth L and Pallaris, Chris},

  abstractNote = {Disastrous social, economic, and political instability can result from limited energy resources or deteriorating environmental conditions. Historically, understanding and preparing for potential turbulent events posed significant challenges for governments, due in part to complex connections and dependencies associated with multiple, inter-related issues. Moving forward, we propose world governments can better mitigate and even avert energy and environmental disasters by cultivating a shared, diverse community of physical and social scientists, engineers, security analysts, and other professionals from related fields to share concerns, discuss ideas, and coalesce key concepts from the vast amount of data available about energy and environmental issues. Bringing relevant parties from multiple disciplines into a dynamic, diverse, and more transparent forum will produce a greater range of discussion, deliberation, and feasible solutions to help address uncertain, global energy and environmental concerns of both the present-day and our future.},

  doi          = {10.1017/S1466046609990081},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/973707},
  journal      = {Environmental Practice, 11(03):209-211},
number       = 3,

  volume       = 11,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009},

  month        = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009}

}

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