1 online resource (xix, 248 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Contents
Boxes; Tables; Figures; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Summary for Policy-makers; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Environmental change in security discourse; Chapter 3 Known conflict impacts of environmental change; Chapter 4 Rising conflict risks due to state fragility and a changing world order; Chapter 5 Impacts of climate change on the biosphere and human society; Chapter 6 Conflict constellations; Chapter 7 Hotspots of climate change: Selected regions; Chapter 8 Climate change as a driver of social destabilization and threat to international security
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 di
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index
