Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis

by National Research Council, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Jo L. Husbands, et al.

Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events--slowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to expect to be surprised by the way in which these events may cascade, or have far-reaching effects. During the coming decade, certain climate-related events will produce consequences that exceed the capacity of the affected societies or global systems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309278562
• ISBN13: 9780309278560
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"