Editing Human security (section)

===Relationship with the environment===
Comprehensive human security attempts to unify environmental security together with social (societal) security. A great number of intertwined environmental and social components together create the framework for comprehensive human security under the assumption that neither of those two categories is attainable in the long run without synergy between the two.<ref name=Westing>{{cite book|last=Westing|first=Arthur|title=Arthur H. Westing: Pioneer on the Environmental Impact of War|year=2013|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783642313226|pages=15–16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-MauhNN-SAC&q=Pioneer+on+the+environmental+impact+of+war}}</ref> That is to say that the trends in environmental, resource, and population stresses are intensifying and will increasingly determine the quality of human life on our planet and as such are a large determining factor of our social security.<ref name="Pirages, DeGeest">{{cite book|last1=Pirages |last2 = DeGeest|first1=Dennis |first2=Theresa Manley|author-link1=Dennis C. Pirages |title=Ecological Security: An Evolutionary Perspective on Globalization|year=2004|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780847695010|pages=59–60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SFA2CcxvwSkC}}</ref>

[[Arthur H. Westing]] posits that the two interdependent branches of comprehensive human security can be broken down into a series of subcomponents to better achieve optimal environmental and social security. 
[[Environmental security]] is composed of two subcomponents: (a) Rational resource utilization, that is resource use that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”<ref name="UN Brundtland">{{cite web|title=UN Global Issues, Environment|url=https://www.un.org/en/globalissues/environment/|work=he Brundtland Report, “Our Common Future”|access-date=5 November 2012}}</ref> 
Social security can be simplified to components of (a) Established political safeguards, (b) Economic safeguards, (c) Personal safeguards, and (d) Military safeguards.<ref name=Westing />

The [[International Institute for Sustainable Development]] (IISD) states that a major goal of comprehensive human security is to “transmit practical recommendations to policy-makers on how to strengthen human security through better environmental management and more effective natural resource governance.”<ref name=IISD>{{cite web|title=Environment and Human Security|url=http://www.iisd.org/ecp/es/|publisher=International Institute for Sustainable Development|access-date=5 November 2012|archive-date=5 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121205073058/http://www.iisd.org/ecp/es/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The overreaching goal being a pervasive global mindset that recognizes the interdependent natures of the natural environment and our collective social security.