Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309278560)

Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events--slowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to expect to be surprised by the way in which these events may cascade, or have far-reaching effects. During the coming decade, certain climate-related events will produce consequences that exceed the capacity of the affected societies or global systems to manage; these may have global security implications. Although focused on events outside the United States, Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis recommends a range of research and policy actions to create a whole-of-government approach to increasing understanding of complex and contingent connections between climate and security, and to inform choices about adapting to and reducing vulnerability to climate change.

Author: National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc,Board on Environmental Change and Societ
ISBN-10: 0309278562
ISBN-13: 9780309278560
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2013
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 05/09/2013 pg. 59