Eco-Warriors, Nihilistic Terrorists, and the Environment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313392368)

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.

Author: Lawrence E. Likar
ISBN-10: 0313392366
ISBN-13: 9780313392368
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 48