Military Climate Resilience Planning and Contemporary Systems Thinking
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This paper establishes the nexus of climate change adaptation with military resilience planning and reviews the historic and interdisciplinary use of resilience as a concept.Then, it focuses on the current and particular definition of resilience utilized by the military and explores what the military might learn from urban planning and non-military versions of resilience.The paper examines the military and security agency planners focus on engineering resilience at the project level, and then at the system level, and identifies a gap in planning for resilience at the community (or regional) levels in the current military planning paradigm.The examination includes how military and security agency planners can fill this gap and benefit by expanding the current resilience framework to emphasize contemporary urban and regional planning concepts that involve sustainability, smart concepts, urban ecology, and enhanced socio-environmental aspects of resilience to more fully consider climate change.The paper concludes that this broadened and more comprehensive consideration of urban and regional resilience will enhance climate change adaptation strategies of the military and that urban ecology and the sub-system linkages related to environment, health, social values, ecology, and resilience should be incorporated into the overall military and security agency planning lexicon.Additionally, military and security agency planners should pursue intentional transdisciplinary planning efforts to help frame and refine the dynamic concept of resilience and integrate the many facets of resilience into their climate change adaptation strategies.
Source: Projections
DOI: 10.21428/f1e6f7e6
Authors: James Allen, Brian Deal
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2801986300