Print PageAligning with the effort to establish warfare ecology as a bridge to advance and inform policy decisions and implementation, this paper suggests linking two propositions. The first is that the praxis of security should be understood as extreme efforts within a state’s larger management of uncertainty about the future. The second proposition is that the planning, design, and use of the environment are fundamental aspects of a state’s response to uncertainty and vulnerability.
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By focusing on a motivation for government action rather than a locus of bureaucratic activity, our approach opens the possibility for a more nuanced discussion about the idea of security. Within this wider frame, we can better recognize relationships among sources of uncertainty and alternative responses. Further, when greater uncertainty becomes more evident in decision making, conceptual flexibility for issues opens new pathways for policy options. Warfare ecology, in short, is an essential discipline not only for environmental stewardship but for the wider application of security and policy choices.
