Defining limits: Ecological overshoot as a driver of conflict
Type: Article
Language(s): English
Description: This article describes the overuse of biological resources as a national security issue, with trends of deepening ecological debt (at the country level and globally) likely to become an increasing source of economic and political instability. It argues for radically reducing resource dependence as part of future national security strategies.
Author(s): Abigail Robinson, Mathis Wackernagel, Viola Csordas
Published In: A White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding: Nurturing an Ecosystem for Peace, pp 42-43
https://www.ecosystemforpeace.org/compendium
Publisher(s): Ecosystem for Peace
Publication Date: 2022
Number of Pages: 2
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Related Organisation(s):
Geneva Peacebuilding Platform Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict and Peace
Related Event(s):
2nd International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
TOPICS / Subjects:
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- Resilience
- CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
- Civil Unrest / Conflict
- Ecosystems and Organisms
- CLIMATE AND SECURITY
- Environmental Security
- National Security