Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary

Climate Change and Security

Climate Change and Security
The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London has mounted a programme of research and events to analyse the security implications of the climate threat in detail and address the urgent issues facing policy-makers today.

Climate Change: National and Regional Security Threat Multiplier for Australia
Jason Söderblom discusses the implications of climate change for national security. Published March/April 2008

Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS)
The Global Environmental Change and Human Security programme is is a core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme. Research focuses on the way diverse social processes such as globalization, poverty, disease and conflict combine with global environmental change to affect human security.

Heating up the Planet: Climate Change and Security (0.7MB download)
In Heating up the Planet: Climate Change and Security, from the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Alan Dupont and Graeme Pearman detail the international security consequences of climate change, especially for the Asia-Pacific sector. Published June 2006

How Climate Change is Pushing the Boundaries of Security and Foreign Policy
How Climate Change is Pushing the Boundaries of Security and Foreign Policy, from Chatham House, argues that climate change is likely to cause international legal disputes, disrupt access to vital resources, and damage critical infrastructure. Maritime boundaries are particularly susceptible to re-evaluation as a result of climate change; uncertainties may increase hostilities related to borders. Published June 2007

Institute for Environment and Human Security
An institute of the United Nations University, the Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) addresses the probabilility of the occurrence of risks which are the consequence of environmental hazards. It was conceived to support policy- and decision makers with authoritative research and information.

National Intelligence Council Assessment
Congressional testimony regarding the results of a classified National Intelligence Council assessment of the threat to the security of the United States posed by climate change.

National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, from CNA, explores ways projected climate change is a threat multiplier in already fragile regions, exacerbating conditions that lead to failed states. Relevant news links are provided. Published April 2007

Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security
The Pacific Institute is a non-partisan research institute that works to advance environmental protection, economic development, and social equity, recognising that the pressing problems of environmental degradation, poverty and political conflict and fundamentally inter-related and long-term solutions require an interdisciplinary perspective. Security and adaptation are focal areas.

Post-Conflict Branch
The Post-Conflict Branch extends the work of the United Nations Environment Programme in areas of the world where the natural and human environment has been damaged as a direct or indirect consequence of conflict.

Autogenerated: 15 May 2015