Military forces must have the land, air, water, and energy/fuel to train and operate today, and into the future. In a world that has finite resources and is increasingly experiencing high competition for these resources, how can these resources be assured, how can conflict over scarce resources be avoided and when can cooperation over resources issues be used to promote peace? This research report addresses how security organizations throughout the world are, or could be, approaching sustainability.

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Sustainability and national security / Jim Hartman -- Sustainability: a lens for national security / Kent Butts and Brent C. Bankus -- The Department of Defense offers a strong offense for promoting sustainability / Kristan Cockerill -- Sustainable security and fragile states / Steve Hearne, Jeremy Alcorn, William Goran -- Sustainability and environmental security / Odelia Funk -- Building resiliency into the national military strategy / David Carstens -- The consequential challenges of climate change / Corry Juedeman -- Sustainability and states: climate change and sovereignty / Rymn J. Parsons -- Pursuing the delta: maximizing opportunities to integrate sustainability in the funding process / Kimberly A. O'Keefe -- U.S. nuclear energy: national security and sustainability / James J. Raftery, Jr. -- Sustainability national security military lands management: the ecological foundation of sustainability / William W. Doe III -- Promoting a sustainability ethic in future Army leaders at West Point / Marie C. Johnson, Mark A. Smith -- Army National Guard launches sustainability initiatives / Joseph Knott and Monica Slade -- Building green / William Goran, Thomas Napier, Richard Schneider, Annette Stumpf.