Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security

Name: Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and SecurityAuthor(s): Jan Selby, Clemens Hoffmann\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138086227, 978-1138086227\nSynopsis\nIs global climate change likely to become a significant source of violent conflict, and should it therefore be seen as a national security challenge? Most Northern governments, militaries, think tanks and NGOs believe so, as do many academic researchers, on the grounds that increased temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and rising sea levels will worsen existing social stresses, especially within poor societies and marginal communities across Africa and Asia. \n\nThis book argues otherwise. The first collection of its kind, it brings together leading scholars of Anthropology, Geography, Development Studies and International Relations to provide a series of critical analyses of mainstream thinking on the climate-security nexus. It shows how policy di.