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Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security (Paperback)
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Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security (Paperback)
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Is 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. This 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
discourse on climate conflict consistently misrepresents the causes
of violence, especially by obscuring its core political dimensions.
It demonstrates that quantitative research provides a flawed basis
for understanding climate-conflict linkages. It argues that climate
security discourse is in hoc with a range of questionable military,
authoritarian and developmental agendas. And it reveals that the
greening of global capitalism is already having violent
consequences across the global South. Climate change, the book
argues, does indeed have serious conflict and security implications
- but these are quite different from how they are usually imagined.
This book was published as a special issue of Geopolitics.
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