Strategic Missile Forces in Ukraine: Brief Survey of Past and Present Environmental Problems

Various environmental problems related to the former strategic missile forces located in Ukraine are outlined and analyzed. As the combat units and equipment have been disarmed and mostly utilized according to international agreements, various axiliary units, equipment, parts, stockpiles of the rocket fuel and oxidizer remained in Ukraine outside the agreements

The environmental security debate and its significance for climate change

Policymakers, military strategists and academics all increasingly hail climate change as a security issue. This article revisits the (comparatively) long-standing “environmental security debate” and asks what lessons that earlier debate holds for the push towards making climate change a security issue. Two important claims are made. First, the emerging climate security debate is in many ways a re-run of the earlier dispute. It features many of the same proponents and many of the same disagreements. These disagreements concern, amongst other things, the nature of the threat, the referent object of security and the appropriate policy responses. Second, given its many different interpretations, from an environmentalist perspective, securitisation of the climate is not necessarily a positive development