Sustainable Security‪.‬

Abstract: The environment is the most transnational of all transnational issues. The origins and reach of most environmental issues respect neither national boundaries nor traditional conceptions of sovereignty and territorial integrity. To acknowledge that the environment constitutes the entirety of our surroundings - air, water, land, natural resources, and wildlife - is to confront 2 questions of fundamental strategic import: first, whether humanity's role on earth is to be nature's master, servant, or steward; and second, whether everyone in varying degrees, demand sustained international attention and tending. Grandiose as these questions may seem, they lie at the heart of any attempt to link the environment to security, especially in the transnational context.