Climate change and conflict |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Hausmanns Gate 7, 0186 Oslo, Norway;2. Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;1. University of Sussex, United Kingdom;2. Kyunghee University, South Korea;1. Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK;2. Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey;1. Department of Geography and the Advanced School for Environmental Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;2. Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The prospect of human-induced climate change encourages drastic neomalthusian scenarios. A number of claims about the conflict-inducing effects of climate change have surfaced in the public debate in recent years. Climate change has so many potential consequences for the physical environment that we could expect a large number of possible paths to conflict. However, the causal chains suggested in the literature have so far rarely been substantiated with reliable evidence. Given the combined uncertainties of climate and conflict research, the gaps in our knowledge about the consequences of climate change for conflict and security appear daunting. Social scientists are now beginning to respond to this challenge. We present some of the problems and opportunities in this line of research, summarize the contributions in this special issue, and discuss how the security concerns of climate change can be investigated more systematically. |
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