Climate change is a major challenge for society, particularly in terms of its capacity to take individual and collective decisions that will enable appropriate responses to address it. In many respects, it differs from other environmental problems facing modern civilization in its time scale and...
The global migratory dynamics and movement of commodities has increased the risk of biosecurity threats and their potential to incur large economic, social, and environmental costs. Infectious disease outbreaks, whether natural or deliberate, respect neither geographic nor political borders. As a result of rising numbers...
The production and utilisation of foresight knowledge, such as prognoses, scenarios, outlooks and narratives about possible futures, has become an eminent feature of the action at the interface of life sciences and society and a subject of increasing interest in scientific and technological studies. In...
The recent successive infectious disease outbreaks (West Nile virus in North America, Chikungunya virus in the Indian Ocean, Ebola virus in West Africa, and Zika virus in America) and the concomitant fear of bioterrorism have stimulated a growing reinforcement of biosecurity and biodefence measures. At...
Many defence companies are already taking pro-active steps to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption, and help customers do the same. Several key trends are driving increased pressure on manufacturers to take a more strategic approach to improving product environmental performance, starting with...
Corrosion of military platforms or their components is an enormous matter, that affects both economic and safety issues and is becoming more prominent as the acquisition of new equipment slows down and more reliance is placed on modifications and upgrades to extend the life of...
In recent years, many nations have developed and implemented green solutions for defence. Optimisation of energy, water and waste management are current focal areas of such efforts, together with catalysing developments of more environmentally conscious materials and munitions. Yet the military is currently engaged in...