Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts Essays from Integrated Climate Research in Hamburg

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brzoska, Michael, editor.

Scheffran, Jürgen, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Other Title:

Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts

Place of Publication:

Hamburg Hamburg University Press 2020

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Research on security-related aspects of climate change is an important element of climate change impact assessments. Hamburg has become a globally recognized center of pertinent analysis of the climate-conflict-nexus. The essays in this collection present a sample of the research conducted from 2009 to 2018 within an interdisciplinary cooperation of experts from Universität Hamburg and other institutions in Hamburg related to the research group "Climate Change and Security" (CLISEC). This collection of critical assessments covers a broad understanding of security, ranging from the question of climate change as a cause of violent conflict to conditions of human security in the Anthropocene. The in-depth analyses utilize a wide array of methodological approaches, from agent-based modeling to discourse analysis.

Contents:

Introduction: research on climate change and security in Hamburg / Michael Brzoska, Jürgen Scheffran

Climate change and weather extremes as risk multipliers: tipping points, cascading events, and societal instability / Jürgen Scheffran

Agrofuel expansion and black resistance in Brazil: energy landscapes as materialized unequal power relations / Martina Neuburger, Rafaela Rau, Tobias Schmitt

Interaction between wind energy, climate vulnerability, and violent conflict in Northern Kenya / Janpeter Schilling, Luise Werland

The roadmap to energy security in Egypt / Mostafa Shaaban

Water allocation in transboundary river systems in times of climate change / P. Michael Link

Managing water-related vulnerability and resilience of urban communities in the Pearl River Delta / Liang Emlyn Yang.

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