Environmental Change and Security Project

Health Security in the Context of Climate Change and Its Impact on Environmental Refugees

Human health security is one of the important issues that international research institutions have been focusing on. This kind of human security has been affected by the effects of climate change over the past two decades. One of the consequences of climate change on the health of people is the development and spread of contagious diseases. In the absence of the prevention of these diseases, th...

The Environmental Security Debate and Its Significance for Climate Change

Environmental Change , Security , and Social Conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon

The links among environmental change, notions of security, and social conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon are multiple and complex. Successive Brazilian governments and the Brazilian military have found a distinct relationship between environmental matters and security issues through a focus on state sovereignty. This relationship is often articulated in terms of defending national sovereignty in...

Potential Security Implications of Environmental Change in Central Asia

There exists a general consensus that future climate change has the potential to severely impact fragile regions on the planet, especially the semi-arid to arid zones [1]. If adaptation strategies are absent and institutions are not in place for mitigation, economies will suffer and intraand interstate conflicts over the allocation of scarce resources will potentially ensue. These developments,...

environmental security and global violence

for many years, the prevailing notion of security has been associated with the ‘realist’ militaryside of conflict management, understood as ‘national security’. for us the term does not just mean theinterplay of deterring, compelling, defensive and offensive force in the pursuit of a self-defined nationalinterest. above all, and at a fundamental level it includes the safety and quality of life ...