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James Broadus

James M. Broadus was director of the Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

The Oceans and Environmental Security

The Oceans and Environmental Security

Shared U.S. And Russian Perspectives

The concept of environmental security, drawing on the widely understood notion of international strategic interdependence (in facing, for example, threats of nuclear war or economic collapse) is gaining currency as a way of thinking about international environmental management.

In 1989, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Marine Policy Center of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution instituted a joint project to examine environmental security as it applies to the world's oceans.