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Climate change, human security and violent conflict
Jon Barnett,W. Neil Adger +1 more
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The authors argue that climate change increasingly undermines human security in the present day, and will increasingly do so in the future, by reducing access to, and the quality of, natural resources that are important to sustain livelihoods.About:
This article is published in Political Geography.The article was published on 2007-08-01. It has received 920 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Climate security & Political economy of climate change.read more
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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
TL;DR: A forum to review, analyze and stimulate the development, testing and implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies at regional, national and global scales as mentioned in this paper, which contributes to real-time policy analysis and development as national and international policies and agreements are discussed.
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Managing the health effects of climate change
Anthony Costello,Mustafa Abbas,Adriana Allen,Sarah C. Ball,Sarah Bell,Richard Bellamy,Sharon Friel,Nora Groce,Anne M Johnson,Maria Kett,Maria Lee,C Levy,Mark A. Maslin,David McCoy,Bill McGuire,Hugh Montgomery,David Napier,Christina Pagel,Jinesh Patel,Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira,Nanneke Redclift,Hannah Rees,Daniel Rogger,Joanne Scott,Judith Stephenson,John Twigg,Jonathan Wolff,Craig Patterson +27 more
TL;DR: Although vector-borne diseases will expand their reach and death tolls, especially among elderly people, will increase because of heatwaves, the indirect effects of climate change on water, food security, and extreme climatic events are likely to have the biggest effect on global health.
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Climate change-induced migration and violent conflict
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of environmental problems on migration in recent decades were explored and the authors argued that people living in lesser developed countries may be more likely to leave affected areas, which may cause conflict in receiving areas.
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Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria
TL;DR: The devastating civil war that began in Syria in March 2011 is the result of complex interrelated factors, including a broad set of religious and sociopolitical factors, the erosion of the economic health of the country, a wave of political reform sweeping over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Levant region, and challenges associated with climate variability and change and the availability and use of freshwater.
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Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition.
Samuel S. Myers,Matthew R. Smith,Sarah Guth,Christopher D. Golden,Bapu Vaitla,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Alan D. Dangour,Peter Huybers +7 more
TL;DR: The main pathways by which climate change may affect the authors' food production systems-agriculture, fisheries, and livestock-as well as the socioeconomic forces that may influence equitable distribution are reviewed.
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Development as Freedom
TL;DR: In this paper, Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know.
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Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review
TL;DR: The Stern Review as discussed by the authors is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue, conducted by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank.
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Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cross-chapter case study on climate change and sustainability in natural and managed systems and assess key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change, and assess adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity.
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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters.
TL;DR: The authors argue that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment and that the concept of vulnerability is central to an understanding of disasters and their prevention or mitigation, exploring the extent and ways in which people gain access to resources.