Lawrence E. Likar

Eco-Warriors, Nihilistic Terrorists, and the Environment (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first book to thoroughly address the topic, this volume examines the ideologies, tactics, and goals of environmental terrorists and offers a security planning methodology to defend against their attacks.

To counter eco-terrorism, we must understand why it occurs. Eco-Warriors, Nihilistic Terrorists, and the Environment is a comprehensive examination of the vulnerability of the natural environment, of its nexus with the strategic goals of terrorists, and of a security-planning methodology that can prevent or ameliorate environmentally linked attacks.

The first book to comprehensively address the prevention of environmentally focused terrorism, this work looks at the environment and the private and government facilities that impact it as assets to be protected. Focusing on the capability of lone-wolf terrorists and small, self-radicalizing cells to commit effective violent acts, security expert Lawrence E. Likar furnishes personality and operational profiles of both nihilistic and eco-warrior terrorists, showcasing an essential component of the behavioral-science-based, security-planning methodology he promotes. Most critically, the book addresses the gap in current security-planning methodology and literature, and it reveals novel intelligence-gathering techniques, operational procedures, and countermeasures designed to defend against attacks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313392375
• Artikelnr.: 37816900

Autorenporträt

Lawrence E. Likar, JD, is associate professor and chair of the Department of Justice, Law, and Security at La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 The Environmental Nexus to
Terrorism 3 The Basic Concepts of Terrorism 4 The Terrorist Mindset 5 The
Radical Environmental Movement: Eco-Warriors or Terrorists? 6 Nihilistic
Terrorists: Fanatical Cells, Lone Wolves, and Hybrid Groups 7 The Risk of
Terrorism 8 Security Planning for Environmentally Linked Terrorism 9
Conclusion Appendix A: Attack Tree: Destruction of Urban Fixed Facility
Appendix B: Maps Notes Bibliography Index