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Climatic cataclysm : the foreign policy and national security implications of climate change / Kurt M. Campbell, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Government policy.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Forecasting.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- International relations--Forecasting.
- International relations.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Presents three scenarios of what the future may hold: expected, severe, and catastrophic and analyzes the security implications of each. Considers what can be learned from early civilizations confronted with natural disaster and asks what the largest emitters of greenhouse gases can do to reduce and manage future risks"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; National Security and Climate Change in Perspective; Can History Help Us with Global Warming?; Three Plausible Scenarios of Future Climate Change; Expected Climate Change over the Next Thirty Years; Severe Climate Change over the Next Thirty Years; Catastrophic Climate Change over the Next Hundred Years; A Partership Deal: Malevolent and Malignant Threats; Setting the Negotiating Table: The Race to Replace Kyoto by 2012; Conclusion: The Clear Implications of Global Climate Change; About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612131363
- 9781282131361
- 1282131362
- 9780815701552
- 0815701551
- OCLC:
- 430512405
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