Climate Change and Armed Conflict: Hot and Cold Wars (repost)
James R. Lee, "Climate Change and Armed Conflict: Hot and Cold Wars"
Publisher: Routledge | 2009-08-18 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0415778697 | PDF | 4 MB
Publisher: Routledge | 2009-08-18 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0415778697 | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends.
Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic action is taken now. Changes in climate will produce unique types and modes ofconflict , redefine the value of important resources, and create new challenges to maintaining social order and stability. This book examines the consequences ofclimate change and argues that it has and will produce two types of different types of conflict: 'cold wars' and 'hot wars'. Cold wars will occur in northern and southern latitudes as warming draws countries into possible conflict due to expanding interests in exploiting new resources and territories (inter-state conflict ).