War and Ecology: Environment and Climate in Defense Policies
On September 7th, “Guerre et écologie : L’environnement et le climat dans les politiques de défense” (War and Ecology: Environment and Climate in Defense Policies), by Adrien Estève, was published by PUF.
While the ecological issue is gaining importance in the public debate, and climate change is likely to have a lasting impact on global balance, this book focuses on the consideration of environmental and climate issues in a sector that has been little studied in the literature on the subject: the defense sector. However, for several years, civilian and military leaders of defense organizations have been making numerous statements in favor of a better consideration of these issues by the armed forces, and a better understanding of the security aspects of global ecological upheavals and the energy transition.
These positions may come as a surprise given the repeated denunciations of the ecological footprint of military activities and the environmental consequences of armed conflicts, which have been made by environmental movements, among others. This book shows how environmental and climatic issues have been mainstreamed into the defense sector, based on the cases of France and the United States.
Adrien Estève is a CNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI) and resident at IRSEM. He holds a doctorate in political science from the IEP in Paris and was a visiting scholar at the Department of International Relations at Columbia University.
