272 pages, 270 x 190 mm
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Earthscan from Routledge
Without resolute counteraction, climate change will overstretch many societies’ adaptive capacities within the coming decades. This could result in destabilisation and violence, jeopardising national and international security to a new degree. However, climate change could also unite the international community, provided that it recognises climate change as a threat to humankind and soon sets the course for the avoidance of dangerous anthropogenic climate change by adopting a dynamic and globally coordinated climate policy. If it fails to do so, climate change will draw ever-deeper lines of division and conflict in international relations, triggering numerous conflicts between and within countries over the distribution of resources, especially water and land, over the management of migration, or over compensation payments between the countries mainly responsible for climate change and those countries most affected by its destructive effects.
Introduction
Environmental Change in Security Discourse
Known Conflict Impacts of Environmental Change
Rising Conflict Risks due to State Fragility and a Changing World Order
Impacts of Climate Change on the Biosphere and Human Society
Conflict Constellations
Hotspots of Climate Change: Selected Regions
Climate Change as a Driver of Social Destabilization and Threat to International Security
Research Recommendations
Recommendations for Action
References
Glossary
Index
"A flagship report [that] makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy." Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Authors include: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber who is head of the Potsdam Institute on Climate Change and advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, Margareta Kulesa, Renate Schubert, Stefan Rahmstorf (all contributing authors to the IPCC) and other leading experts.
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