Handbook on Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict – Challenges for Societal Stability

Citation

(2012), "Handbook on Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict – Challenges for Societal Stability", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 23 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2012.08323eaa.009

Handbook on Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict – Challenges for Societal Stability

Handbook on Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict – Challenges for Societal Stability

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 23, Issue 5.

Edited by Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Hans Günter Brauch, Peter Michael Link and Janpeter SchillingSpringerNew YorkApril 2012868 pp.ISBN 9783642286254€231.95

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 sequence of events leading to economic decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent conflict?

This book brings together international experts to explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions and cooperative approaches to stabilise the climate-society interaction.

This new environmental and human security handbook contains:

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  state-of-the art assessment of research on climate change and security links; and

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  addresses a variety of topics within the climate change and security framework.

It also combines research of 61 international experts and handle matters such as severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration.