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Can I read Climate Change as a Security Risk on EtoBox?
Climate Change as a Security Risk by Hans Joachim Joachim Schellnhuber is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Climate Change as a Security Risk about?
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. This is provided that we recognize climate change as a threat to humankind and so set the course for adopting a dynamic and globally coordinated climate policy. If we fail 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, and 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. 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 spotligh
Who reads Climate Change as a Security Risk?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hans Joachim Joachim Schellnhuber
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781136535659
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Economics, Business