Climate and Social Stress

Implications for Security Analysis

von Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Social and Political Stresses, Board on Environmental Change and Society, National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

252 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events--slowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to expect to be surprised by the way in which these events may cascade, or have far-reaching effects. During the coming decade, certain climate-related events will produce consequences that exceed the capacity of the affected societies or global systems to manage; these may have global security implications. Although focused on events outside the United States, Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis recommends a range of research and policy actions to create a whole-of-government approach to increasing understanding of complex and contingent connections between climate and security, and to inform choices about adapting to and reducing vulnerability to climate change.

• ISBN: 9780309278560
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.02.2013
• Größe: 228 x 151 mm
• Verlag: National Academies Press
• Herausgegeben von: John D Steinbruner, Paul C Stern, Jo L Husbands