Climate change and national security
Subtitle: an agenda for action
By: Joshua W. Busby.
Contributors: Council on Foreign Relations.
Series: CSR -- no. 32
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780876094136
Subjects: Climatic changes; Security, International; Climatic changes -- United States; National security -- United States
Description: Domestically, the effects of climate change could overwhelm disaster-response capabilities. Internationally, climate change may cause humanitarian disasters, contribute to political violence, and undermine weak governments. In this Council Special Report, Joshua W. Busby moves beyond diagnosis of the threat to recommendations for action. Recognizing that some climate change is inevitable, he proposes a portfolio of feasible and affordable policy options to reduce the vulnerability of the United States and other countries to the predictable effects of climate change.
Notes: "November 2007."

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