Eco-Warriors Nihilistic Terrorists and the Environment

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.