Assessment of Threats to Environmental Security and Climate Change

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

Climate change and security.

Climate change was originally expected to have its main impact on countries in temperate latitudes which, because of their relative wealth, would be best able to cope. It is now far more likely that much poorer states in the tropics and sub-tropics will experience severe impacts. This is compounded by the widening socioeconomic divide and the combination of these divisions, with environmental c...

Threats to mangroves from climate change and adaptation options

Mangrove ecosystems are threatened by climate change. We review the state of knowledge of mangrove vulnerability and responses to predicted climate change and consider adaptation options. Based on available evidence, of all the climate change outcomes, relative sea-level rise may be the greatest threat to mangroves. Most mangrove sediment surface elevations are not keeping pace with sea-level r...

Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes

There is a low but uncertain probability that climate change could trigger “mega-catastrophes,” severe and at least partly irreversible adverse effects across broad regions. This paper first discusses the state of current knowledge and the defining characteristics of potential climate change mega-catastrophes. While some of these characteristics present difficulties for using standard rational ...