Climate change, human security and violent conflict [electronic resource] : challenges for societal stability / Jürgen Scheffran [and others], editors ; with forewords by Olusegun Obasanjo [and others]
Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: 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 sequ...
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction Introduction: Climate Change, Human Security, and Violent Conflict in the Anthropocene / Hans Günter Brauch and Jürgen Scheffran
- Part 2. Climate Change, Human Security, Societal Stability, and Violent Conflict: Empirical and Theoretical Linkages On Environmental Change and Armed Conflict / Halvard Buhaug and Ole Magnus Theisen
- Climate Change, Societal Stability, and the SID Project / Peter F. Nardulli and Kalev H. Leetaru
- Climate Change, Conflict, and Fragility: Getting the Institutions Right / Dan Smith and Janani Vivekananda
- Theories and Models of Climate-Security Interaction: Framework and Application to a Climate Hot Spot in North Africa / Jürgen Scheffran, P. Michael Link and Janpeter Schilling
- Global Climate Policy Reinforces Local Social Path-Dependent Structures: More Conflict in the World? / Jasmin Kominek
- Part 3. Climate Change and the Securitization Discourse Climate Change and the Environmental Conflict Discourse Maria J. Trombetta
- Climate Change as a Driver of Security Policy / Michael Brzoska
- From 'Securitization' of Climate Change to 'Climatization' of the Security Field: Comparing Three Theoretical Perspectives / Angela Oels
- Critical Deconstruction of Environmental Security and Human Security Concepts in the Anthropocene / Judith Nora Hardt
- Political in Nature: The Conflict-fuelling Character of International Climate Policies / Linda Wallbott
- Security as a Weapon: How Cataclysm Discourses Frame International Climate Negotiations / Delf Rothe
- Audience: A Weak Link in the Securitization of the Environment? / Tasos Karafoulidis
- Words, Visuals, and the Vanished Enemy: Visual Securitization and the COP15 Opening Film / Tore Rørbæk
- Part 4. Climate Change and Migration Climate Change and Human Migration: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees / Frank Biermann and Ingrid Boas
- 'Climate Refugees' as Dawning Catastrophe? A Critique of the Dominant Quest for Numbers / Cord Jakobeit and Chris Methmann
- Environmentally-Forced Migration in Rural Areas: Security Risks and Threats in Mexico / Úrsula Oswald Spring
- Policing Borders in a Time of Rapid Climate Change / Steve Wright
- Part 5. Climate Change and Security in the Middle East Climate Change on the Arabian Peninsula
- Regional Security, Sustainability Strategies, and Research Needs / Dennis Kumetat
- Environmental Degradation, Climate Uncertainties, and Human Vulnerabilities: Realm of Possible Actions toward a Shifting Security Paradigm in the Arab Gulf Monarchies / Andy Spiess
- Altering Security Dynamics? Climate Change Impacts on Iraq / Achim Maas and Kerstin Fritzsche
- Nothing New in the Middle East
- Reality and Discourses of Climate Change in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Clemens Messerschmid
- Part 6. Climate Change and Security in Africa Locating Climate Insecurity: Where Are the Most Vulnerable Places in Africa? / Joshua W. Busby, Todd G. Smith, Kaiba L. White and Shawn M. Strange
- Climate Change, Resource Competition, and Conflict amongst Pastoral Communities in Kenya / Beth Njeri Njiru
- Climate Change and Violent Conflicts in Nigeria: Human Needs and Relative Deprivation Theories / Oscar Edoror Ubhenin
- Enhancing Security and Resilience of Low-Income Communities to Climate Change in Growing Cities: An Assessment of Flood Management and Planning Regimes in Kampala City, Uganda / Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Hannington Sengendo and Shuaib Lwasa
- Malnutrition and Conflict in Eastern Africa: Impacts of Resource Variability on Human Security / Pedram Rowhani, Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha-Sapir and Eric F. Lambin
- Part 7. Climate Change and Security in Asia and the Pacific Climate Awareness and Adaptation Efficacy for Livelihood Security against Sea Level Rise in Coastal Bangladesh / Mustafa Saroar and Jayant K. Routray
- Security Implications of Climate Refugees in Urban Slums: A Case Study from Dhaka, Bangladesh / Sujan Saha
- A Psychological Perspective on Climate Stress in Coastal India / Ruchi Mudaliar and Parul Rishi
- Routine Violence in Java, Indonesia: Neo-Malthusian and Social Justice Perspectives / Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin, Anis Chowdhury and Syed Mansoob Murshed
- Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty: Climate Change and Security in the Pacific and Beyond / Achim Maas and Alexander Carius
- Securitization of Climate Change in the United Nations 2007
- 2010 / Gerrit Kurtz
- Climate Change, Peacekeeping, and Perspectives for UN Reform / Bo Kjellén and Peter Wallensteen
- International Climate Change Policies: The Potential Relevance of REDD+ For Peace and Stability / Dennis Tänzler and Felix Ries
- The Role of Information Systems in Improving Resilience and Security through Innovation-Oriented Capacity Building / Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid
- Policy Responses to Climate Change in the Mediterranean and MENA Region during the Anthropocene / Hans Günter Brauch
- Conclusions and Outlook: Research Results and Research Needs / Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Hans Gür Brauch, P. Michael Link and Janpeter Schilling.