Climate change is affecting the U.S. and the world in far-reaching ways. Impacts
related to climate change are already seen through a wide range of actions and
activities across every region of the world and in many sectors of the global economy.
Climate change could have significant impacts to U.S. National security including
water supply, agriculture, food security, human health, transportation, energy and
ecosystems. U.S Intelligence agencies are warning some of these impacts are likely
to trigger major conflicts in the near future.
Climate change presents a major challenge for society and as a society we need to
find ways to work together to make our communities stronger and more resilient
to its impacts. One way is to use the enormous data sets regularly collected by
NASA, NOAA, ESA, and other agencies in the U.S and around the world and apply
the ingenuity, creativity, and expertise of technologists and entrepreneurs to help
create easy-to-use tools for regional planners, farmers, hospitals, and businesses
across the globe to empower our communities to prepare themselves for the future.
The changes in our environment have begun to impact how we look at our global
connectedness and thus our national security. Thought, leadership, and research
are required for us to move towards viable solutions.
This special issue will solicit articles related to national security through the
following topics at global, continental, regional or local levels:
•
Defense-civilian geospatial cooperation in fostering natural resource/
climate change resilience
•
Extreme weather and rising sea level
•
Impact of increasing ship access (including Artic)
•
Impacts and opportunities of offshore development (including Artic)
•
Increasing coastal erosion
•
Changes in geography and freshwater availability
•
Impacts on defense infrastructure (necessitating logistic and operation
change)
•
Human health impact (including pandemics)
•
Disaster-response capabilities do to extreme weather
•
Food security (availability, stability, utilization, and access)
•
Data standardization, organizational and legal aspects of sharing geospatial
data across countries on climate change related issues
Authors must prepare manuscripts according to the PE&RS Instructions to
Authors, published in each issue of PE&RS and also available on the ASPRS web
site http:/www.asprs.org/pers/AuthorInstructions.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed in accordance with
PE&RS
policy. Because
of page limits, not all submissions recommended for acceptance by the review
panel may be included in the Special Issue. Under this circumstance, the guest
editors will select the most relevant papers for inclusion in the special issue.
Papers that are reviewed favorably, but will not fit within the Special Issue, can be
revised and submitted for review as a new paper to the
PE&RS
Editor-in-Chief for
possible publication in a future regular issue of
PE&RS
.
I
mportant
D
ates
:
Manuscripts Due: 12/01/14
Decision to Authors: 04/01/15
Final Papers Due: 05/01/15
Publication: 11/01/15
Cl imate Change & National Security:
A Geospatial Perspective
G
uest
E
ditors
:
Todd Johanesen, Defense and
Intelligence Committee Chair (ASPRS)
Tim Hale, Woolpert
Jerome Lenczowski, Jerome
Lenczowski Consulting
David Alvarez, Woolpert
P
lease
e
-
mail
your
manuscript
directly
to
:
David Alvarez
Phone: (614) 827 6113
Email:
D
eadline
for
S
ubmission
of
M
anuscripts
: 12/01/2014
T
entative
P
ublication
D
ate
:
11/01/2015
C
all
for
P
apers
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August 2014
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