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Title:
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Climate change as a security risk
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Authors:
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German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
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Material Type:
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book
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Edition statement:
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Publisher:
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[S.l.] : Earthscan, 2008
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-1-84407-536-2
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Size:
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xii, 248 p. / ill. col. maps / 28 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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QC981.8.C5
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Subjects:
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Climatic changes--Government policy--International cooperation
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Environmental policy
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Security, International
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Description:
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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 ville draw ever-deeper lines of division and conflict in international relations, triggering numerous conflicts between and within countries over the distribution of ressources, especially water and land, over the management of migration, or over compensation payments betwenn the countries mainly responsible for climate change and those countries most affected by its destructive effects.
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