Timothy CLACK, Ziya MERAL and Louise SELISNY (eds.), Climate Change, Conflict and (In)Security: Hot War

Climate change is already happening, but at an accelerating pace that is surprising even the experts responsible for tracking its progress. The world is far from ready to cope with its impacts. This is particularly true of the defense and security sectors, which have not yet come to terms with the fact that climate change amplifies the risk of conflict. The academic world began to become aware of these links in the 1990s. Thomas Homer-Dixon, a pioneer in this field, points out in chapter 16 (pp. 356-364) the prescient nature of his work: environmental disruptions will not trigger conflicts directly, but will act as threat multipliers through their impact on access to key resources, the well-being of populations, and the cohesion of social groups.