Land RestorationReclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future
2016, Pages 163–181
Chapter 2.6 – Environmental Security, Land Restoration, and the Military: A Case Study of the Ecological Task Forces in India
Abstract
Land
restoration and its military dimensions, as part of the environmental
security discourse, have not received as much attention as they should
in mainstream environmental security studies and policy discussions.
This section attempts to fill this crucial gap by providing insight into
the relationships between these concepts using theoretical frameworks
and empirical evidence. The successes achieved by the Ecological Task
Forces (ETFs) in land restoration in India, particularly the Bhatti
mining area of Delhi, are used as case studies to elucidate the role of
the armed forces in environmental security, commonly not considered to
be a security issue. The text argues that there is a dire need to
incorporate environmental security (of which land restoration forms an
integral part) within military strategy and, as a corollary, that the
military should become a pivotal element of the nation’s environmental
security policy.
Keywords
- Environmental security;
- land restoration;
- land degradation;
- military;
- India;
- food-energy-water;
- Ecological Task Force (ETF);
- Bhatti
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