Global Warming and Environmental Security (original) (raw)

In traditional sense, the notion of "security" is defined as political and military threats directed against the national sovereignty. The boundary of this notion is widened after 1990s as environmental issues and their global and transboundary aspects became a threat to the security of nations. In Millennium Project, the environmental security as defined as "the relative public safety from environmental dangers caused by natural or human process due to ignorance, accident, mismanagement, or design; originating within or across national borders".