German Advisory Council on Global Change <br/><br/>
Climate change as a security risk 

 - London :  Earthscan,  2008 
 - xix, 248 p. 28 cm. 
<br/><br/>Without resolute counteraction, climate change will overstretch many societies' adaptive capacities within the coming decades. This could result in destabilization and violence, jeopardizing national and international security to a new degree. However, climate change could also unite the international community, provided that it recognizes climate change as a threat to humankind and soon sets the course for the avoidance of dangerous anthropogenic climate change by adopting a dynamic and globally coordinated climate policy. If it fails to do so, climate change will draw ever-deeper lines of division and conflict in international relations, triggering numerous conflicts between and within countries over the distribution of resources, especially water and land, 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781844077618 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Climatic changes--International cooperation.<br/>Environmental policy.<br/>Security, International.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.73874526  / GER