Name: Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do about It
SKU: 56087416
Price: 590.81 NZD
Availability: InStock
Author: Mazo, Jeffrey
ISBN: 9781138452527

portada Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do about It

Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do about It

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jeffrey Mazo

Publisher

Routledge

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781138452527

Edition No.

Synopsis "Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do about It"

Climate change has been a key factor in the rise and fall of societies and states from prehistory to the recent fighting in the Sudanese state of Darfur. It drives instability, conflict and collapse, but also expansion and reorganisation. The ways cultures have met the climate challenge provide lessons for how the modern world can handle the new security threats posed by unprecedented global warming. Combining historical precedents with current thinking on state stability, internal conflict and state failure suggests that overcoming cultural, social, political and economic barriers to successful adaptation to a changing climate is the most important factor in avoiding instability in a warming world. The countries which will face increased risk are not necessarily the most fragile, nor those which will suffer the greatest physical effects of climate change. The global security threat posed by fragile and failing states is well known. It is in the interest of the worlds more affluent countries to take measures both to reduce the degree of global warming and climate change and to cushion the impact in those parts of the world where climate change will increase that threat. Neither course of action will be cheap, but inaction will be costlier. Providing the right kind of assistance to the people and places it is most needed is one way of reducing the cost, and understanding how and why different societies respond to climate change is one way of making that possible.

Customers reviews

Have you read this book? Login to add your review.

More customer reviews

0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)

Questions and Answers about the Book

Do you have a question about the book? Login to be able to add your own question.

Opinions about Bookdelivery

More customer reviews

Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do about It - Mazo, Jeffrey

Synopsis "Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do about It"

Customers reviews

Frequently Asked Questions about the Book

Is the book original?

In what language is the book written?

What is the format of this book?

Questions and Answers about the Book

Opinions about Bookdelivery