Disaster Security: Using Intelligence and Military Planning for Energy and Environmental Risks

May 21, 2019 | Wilson Center
Washington, DC
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From glacier melt in the Andes and hurricanes in New York and Hawaii, to hybrid disasters, cyber operations, and geoengineering, the US military and intelligence community harnesses the foresight provided by scenarios, simulations, and disaster planning to anticipate environmental and security-related disasters. In their new book, Disaster Security: Using Intelligence and Military Planning for Energy and Environmental Risks, Chad Briggs and Miriam Matejova lead readers through real-life planning scenarios and lessons learned to provide an inside view of how and why government agencies plan for environmental disasters and their potential cascading impacts on global systems. Please join us for a discussion with the authors and reflections by former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security, Sherri Goodman.

Speakers

Chad M. Briggs, Graduate Director and Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Alaska- Anchorage; Strategy Director, GlobalInt LLC

Sherri Goodman, Senior Fellow, Wilson Center; former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security)

Miriam Matejova, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Canada

Moderated by Geoff Dabelko, Senior Advisor, Environmental Change & Security Program, Wilson Center; Professor and Associate Dean, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University

For more information and to register, please visit https://engage.wilsoncenter.org/onlineactions/dIEs3fDgqkKcnqp7HrroQA2

Where: Washington, DC

When: 21 May 2019

Organizer: The Wilson Center