Climate Conflict - How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do About It

List of contents

Introduction 1. Global Warming and Climate Change 2. Climate and History 3. Darfur: The First Modern Climate-Change Conflict 4. Conflict, Instability and State Failure: The Climate Factor 5. Climate Change and Security 6. Conclusion Glossary Notes

About the author

Jeffrey Mazo is Managing Editor of Survival: Global Politics and Strategy , the bi-monthly journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Summary

Climate change has been a key factor in the rise and fall of societies and states from prehistory to the recent fighting in the Sudanese state of Darfur. The countries which will face increased risk are not necessarily the most fragile, nor those which will suffer the greatest physical effects of climate change.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Mazo, Mazo Jeffrey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138452527
• ISBN: 978-1-138-45252-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Adelphi series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; HISTORY / Military / General, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence