Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict Challenges for S
Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a challenge for the world’s governance structures. But how severe are the security risks and conflict potentials of climat
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Vol. 8
Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Hans Günter Brauch, Peter Michael Link and Janpeter Schilling Editors
Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict Challenges for Societal Stability With Forewords by Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria; Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action; Christiana Figures, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC; R.K. Pachauri, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
With 159 Figures and 67 Tables
Editors Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran, Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC), Institute of Geography, KlimaCampus Hamburg, University of Hamburg, Grindelberg 7, 20144 Hamburg, Germany Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska, Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg, Beim Schlump 83, D-20144 Hamburg, Germany PD Dr. phil. habil. Hans Günter Brauch, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Free University Berlin; AFES-PRESS Chairman; Editor, HEXAGON Series; address: Alte Bergsteige 47, 74821 Mosbach, Germany Dr. Peter Michael Link, Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC), Institute of Geography, KlimaCampus Hamburg, University of Hamburg, Grindelberg 7, 20144 Hamburg, Germany Janpeter Schilling, Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC), Institute of Geography, KlimaCampus Hamburg, University of Hamburg, Grindelberg 7, 20144 Hamburg, Germany
ISSN 1865-5793 e-ISSN 1865-5807 e-ISBN 978-3-642-28626-1 ISBN 978-3-642-28625-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012936127 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
Cover illustration: The photograph of new plantations in the Sahara was taken in El Oued (Algeria) by Pascal Meunier (France), of a rebel prisoner, Eastern Congo, November, 2008 by Finbarr O’Reilly, Reuters (Canada), and of the young woman in Kenya in March 2011 by Janpeter Schilling from Hamburg, Germany. All three photographers granted the copyright. Copyediting: PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, AFES-PRESS e.V., Mosbach, Germany Language editing: Michael Headon, Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK Typesetting and layout: Thom
