The Driving Federal Interest in Environmental Hazards: Weather Disaster as Global Security Threat
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Published:2024-04-18
Issue:4
Volume:13
Page:219
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ISSN:2076-0760
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Container-title:Social Sciences
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Social Sciences
Author:
Larkin Lance L.1, Josefik Nicholas M.2
Affiliation:
1. Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Emergency and Operational Support Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2902 Newmark Drive, Champaign, IL 61822, USA 2. Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Energy Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2902 Newmark Drive, Champaign, IL 61822, USA
Abstract
The U.S. federal government manages many domestic and global operations, including environmental disasters. With the need to both mitigate and adapt to climate change, legislative and executive branches have spurred research efforts as the impacts of the Anthropocene accelerate around the country. The Army Corps of Engineers’ overlapping interest in security and providing technological answers to mitigate weather disasters has led to recent research and development, including facilitating the federal mandate to convert military fleets to electric vehicles by 2027 while also building a hydrogen fuel cell emergency operations vehicle. The emergency vehicle, H2Rescue, has recently been tested in the field, and further refinements in the technology are leading towards a transition out of development and into production. However, the engineered solution must also attend to the social dimensions of disaster relief. This paper examines past environmental disasters in one location, the Navajo Nation, to describe how the vehicle could provide a combination of technological and societal future research possibilities for environmental anthropology.
Funder
Construction Engineering Research Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office and Vehicle Technologies Office U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Accelera™ by Cummins
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