Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber ,
German Advisory Council on Global Change WBGU ,
German Advisory Council on Global Change
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Earthscan Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 19.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 27.00cm
Weight: 0.660kg
ISBN: 9781844075362
ISBN 10: 1844075362
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 12 December 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'A flagship report [that] makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.' Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 'With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.' Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
'A flagship report [that] makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.' Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 'With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.' Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
'A flagship report [that] makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.' Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 'With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.' Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
A flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda... The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy. Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Author Information
Authors include Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (head of the Potsdam Institute on Climate Change and advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel), Margareta Kulesa, Renate Schubert, Stefan Rahmstorf (all contributing authors to the IPCC) and other leading experts.
