[Radix] Fwd: climate and security redux

[Patrick Meier]

Hello All,

Would be great to get any guidance on Josh's question.
Feel free to reply directly to him (and maybe cc this list?).

On Josh:

http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/faculty/joshua-busby/

Thanks!
Patrick

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Josh Busby <busbyj at austin.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Subject: climate and security redux
To: Patrick P Meier <Patrick.Meier at tufts.edu>


Patrick,

I hope all is well. I'm continuing to work on climate and security. My
academic piece is finally set to come out in Security Studies later this
year. I've seen the copy edits and am waiting on the proofs.

I've got a new piece for a Brookings edited volume that I'm working on. It
will include some pieces from my CFR report, but I'm trying to identify more
initiatives the international community could or should take to address the
security consequences of climate change. Here, I'm thinking again of early
warning systems, disaster management, but I'd like to get beyond the
boilerplate heading of "invest in early warning systems." I'm particularly
struck by the limitations of what the international community was able to do
after Nargis in Myanmar. I understand that the Burmese got early warning
from the Indians but did not take much action to prepare their population.

I'd welcome any thoughts you had as to the latest state of play. You may
have some ready-made thoughts on this in recent papers or on your blog.
Happy to read something if it is a better use of time! Or, talk on the
phone. In any case, I look forward to hearing from you. I'm doing a
roundtable at APSA on the topic with Idean Salehyan and Jay Gulledge of the
Pew Center. I think we're Friday morning. Hope to catch up over coffee at
APSA while I'm in town.

Congrats on your dual gig at Harvard. How did that come about?

All the best,

JB



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