Climate Change, Policy and Security - 9780367457709

Taylor & Francis

Climate Change, Policy and SecurityState and Human Impacts\nAuthor(s): Donald Wallace, Daniel Silander\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367457709, 978-0367457709\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the multiple strategies proposed by the international community for addressing global climate change (GCC) from both human and state-security perspectives.\n\nIt examines what is needed from major states working within the UN framework to engage with the multiple dimensions of a strategy that addresses GCC and its impacts, where such engagement promotes both human and state security. Two broad frameworks for approaching these issues provide the basis of discussion for the individual chapters, which discuss the strategies being undertaken by major state powers (the US, the EU, China, India, Japan, and Russia). The first framework considers the multiple strategies, mitigation, adaptation, and capacity-building required of the.