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Climate change is one of the key challenges the world is facing in the 21st century. Concerns are increasingly raised that climate change might not only undermine the livelihoods of millions of people across the globe but that it might actually act as a multiplier of risks and threats that could result in violent conflict. In 2014 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the first time included a chapter on human security in one of its assessment reports (cited under General O...Climate change is one of the key challenges the world is facing in the 21st century. Concerns are increasingly raised that climate change might not only undermine the livelihoods of millions of people across the globe but that it might actually act as a multiplier of risks and threats that could result in violent conflict. In 2014 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the first time included a chapter on human security in one of its assessment reports (cited under General Overviews). The security and conflict implications of climate change have made it to the international policy agenda. The pathways from climate change to conflict are, however, indirect and highly complex. Global climate change has local effects in the form of changing temperatures and rainfall patterns, extreme events such as drought and flooding, and sea-level rise. Conflicts related to climate change may be violent or non-violent and occur on subnational, national, or regional scales. Intermediate variables between climate change and conflict may include altered availability of resources such as land and water, migration, displacement, decline or loss of livelihoods, and food insecurity. To have an overview of these linkages in northern Africa is particularly important as the region is characterized by both strong vulnerability to climate change and conflicts of varying intensities. This article first gives a general introduction to the topic of climate change and conflict (see General Overviews and Special Issues and Edited Volumes) before Fundamental Theories and Concepts and Critical Perspectives are addressed and Quantitative Studies and Qualitative Case Studies are described. Thereafter the focus is placed on linkages between climate change and conflict in the following countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, South Sudan and Sudan, and Tunisia. The final section of the article gives an overview of relevant Reports by Nongovernmental Organizations.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Allgemeines, Wissenschaft