Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict Challenges for Societal Stability /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scheffran, Jürgen (Editor), Brzoska, Michael (Editor), Brauch, Hans Günter (Editor), Link, Peter Michael (Editor), Schilling, Janpeter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, 8
• Subjects: Geography.; Climate change.; Environment.; Economics.; Management science.; Geography, general.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Economics, general.; Environment, general.

Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a challenge for the world’s governance structures. But how severe are the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could global warming trigger a sequ...

Table of Contents:

• Part I  Introduction
• Part II Climate Change, Human Security, Societal Stability, and Violent Conflict: Empirical and Theoretical Linkages
• Part III Climate Change and the Securitization Discourse
• Part IV Climate Change and Migration
• Part V Climate Change and Security in the Middle East
• Part VI Climate Change and Security in Africa
• Part VII Climate Change and Security in Asia and the Pacific
• Part VIII Improving Climate Security: Cooperative Policies and Capacity-Building
• Part IX Conclusions and Outlook
• Abbreviations
• Biographies of Contributors
• Index.