{"title":"The Security Implications of Climate Change","authors":"C. Rajagopal","doi":"10.4324/9781003008699-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003008699-5","url":null,"abstract":"The Author, who is a prolific writer on contemporary issues like global warming, disaster management, etc., brings out that the perception of the international community towards climate change issues has changed significantly during the last three decades. Earlier, it was seen as an environmental problem or an energy challenge but has now come to be perceived as a core development challenge that carries potentially serious implications for international peace and security. This, as can be imagined, will significantly impact government policies. She further brings out that during the past decades, a series of environmental drivers of human conflict have been identified :","PeriodicalId":302552,"journal":{"name":"The Armed Conflict Survey 2019","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128169051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South Asia","authors":"V. Mallet","doi":"10.4324/9781003008699-30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003008699-30","url":null,"abstract":"The author begins at the source of the Ganges, or Ganga (the terms are interchangeable), and traces the course of the river down from its beginnings in the Himalayas, past Varanasi and Kolkata to the open sea. He points out that the glaciers which feed the river have already receded and are predicted to retreat still further as the effects of climate change intensify. The effect of global warming on India could be devastating; there are some calculations that average temperature rises of between three and five degrees could occur in North India by 2080. He also notes that many attribute to global warming the storms which caused so much devastation and loss of life in the upper Himalayas in 2013.","PeriodicalId":302552,"journal":{"name":"The Armed Conflict Survey 2019","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134360424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}