Climate change and security : a gathering storm of global challenges / Christian Webersik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webersik, Christian, 1970-

Series:

Security and the environment.

Security and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Environmental management.

Human beings--Effect of climate on.

Human beings.

Human security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alarms about the expanding role of climate change as a force multiplier of existing threats to national, international, and human security structures studies are being raised at all levels of governance and intelligence-national (including the U.S. Senate, the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Pentagon), transnational (including the European Union and the United Nations), and private (such as the Central News Agency and the American Security Project). <i>Climate Change and Security: A Gathering Storm of Global Challenges</i> focuses on the three major

Contents:

Climate change and security

Resource scarcity and its security implications

Natural disasters and their security implications

Migration as an outcome

Ripple effects of climate change mitigation

The way forward : a new environmental security agenda for the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400627446

9786612933424

9781780340623

1780340621

9781282933422

1282933426

9780313380075

0313380074

OCLC:

699474594