Does a connection exist between environmental degradation, resource
scarcity and violent conflicts? Global environmental changes, such as
climate change and sea level rise, shortage of fresh water and rapid
soil degradation increasingly highlight the dimensions of environmental
change in foreign and security policy. To reverse these negative
environmental consequences over the long term, comprehensive and
preventive policy approaches are urgently required.
This state-of-the-art book contains numerous articles by renown
German-speaking experts from different scientific disciplines as well as
international and European political advisors and diplomats. Together
they discuss the complex causes of environmentally induced conflicts and
the political and societal mechanisms for conflict prevention.