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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

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Some argue that environmental degradation is best understood as a threat to human security (Barnett and Adger 2007), and others focus on the inextricable ties between human well-being and the health of ecological systems to which we belong (McDonald 2018). Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J.,

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

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For example, an agency reviewing a coastal development project should consider how impacts such as sea level rise and increased precipitation might affect flood risk in the area and whether the project might further exacerbate the flood risk. 4th 412 (2007). City of Rancho Cordova, 40 Cal.