Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide by Alvarez, Alex

Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781442265684)

Vendor: Alex Alvarez
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Format: Hardcover
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Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide by Alvarez, Alex

Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide

$42.00
Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide by Alvarez, Alex

Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
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Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity--ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence.

Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including Darfur, Syria, and the current migration crisis, this book illustrates the thorny intersections of climate change and violence. The author doesn't claim causation but makes a compelling case that changing environmental circumstances can be a critical factor in facilitating violent conflict. As research suggests climate change will continue and accelerate, understanding how it might contribute to violence is essential in understanding how to prevent it.

Author: Alex Alvarez
ISBN-10: 144226568X
ISBN-13: 9781442265684
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2017
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2017
Choice 03/01/2018
By Alex Alvarez
By Alex Alvarez
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Alex Alvarez is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. He was the founding director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. He is the author of several books, including Governments, Citizens, and Genocide, Genocidal Crimes, and Native America and the Question of Genocide. He has also served as an editor for the journal Violence and Victims, and he was a founding coeditor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention.

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