Urbanization, the Environment and Biosecurity
Over the summer, Nancy Brune and I contributed to the
National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 blog, a forum to
discuss a range of issues ahead of the NIC’s forthcoming Global Trends 2030 study, to be released after the presidential
election this fall.
What is interesting about the NIC’s study is that it focuses
on emerging trends and their implications for the security and geopolitical
environments. But rather than explore these trends in isolation of each other,
the NIC examines different scenarios, and how trends engage one another. Urbanization
and climate change are among the trends that the NIC has looked at closely. In
separate posts, Nancy
and I
both examined the security implications of urbanization and climate change for
the NIC’s blog.
Urbanization – the shift of populations from rural to urban
communities – presents challenges and opportunities for policymakers in
developed and developing countries. As I wrote in July:
But of course, climate change is not the only other trend
that touches urbanization. A range of trends, such as globalization and
emerging diseases, combine with urbanization to present dilemmas for
policymakers.
Last week, Yale Environment 360 published a piece
that explored the challenges that could manifest from urbanization,
globalization and emerging diseases coming together in novel ways. See: “The
Next Pandemic: Why It Will Come from Wildlife.”
www.cnas.org
2012-10-10 06:06:07
Source: http://www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2012/10/urbanization-environment-and-biosecurity.html
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