TY  - BOOK
AU  - German Advisory Council on Global Change
TI  - Climate change as a security risk
SN  - 9781844077618
U1  - 363.73874526 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Earthscan
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Security, International
N1  - 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
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