Climate change as a security risk / German Advisory Council on Global Change.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (Germany)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--International cooperation.

Climatic changes.

Environmental policy.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

xix, 248 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008.

Summary:

Without resolute counteraction, climate change will overstretch many societies adaptive capacities within the coming decades. This could result in destabilization and violence, jeopardizing national and international security to a new degree. However, climate change could also unite the international community, provided that it recognizes 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. Published with WBGU.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-234) and index.

ISBN:

9781844075362

1844075362

OCLC:

183149791