Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict

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Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research. Research suggests that violent conflict is affected by climate change and this could become increasingly worse in the future. Barnett, J., Adger, W. (2007) suggest that climate change undermines human security by reducing the access to natural resources that sustain people’s way of life. Climate change also has the capacity to undermine states as well by cutting off the states ability to provide opportunities and services that help maintain life and which help to maintain and build peace in daily life. With access to natural resources diminishing and the state not being able to provide opportunities and services that help maintain life and human security this all may lead to increased violent conflict.

Barnett, J., Adger, W. (2007) futher suggest “that there is a need for systematic, comparative and cross-scale research to enhance understanding of the connections between climate change, human security and violence. This includes understanding the ways in which it may affect environmental changes in localities, the extent to which people are susceptible to damage from those changes, and their capacities to avoid or adapt to them so that their livelihoods can be sustained and their needs and values can continue to be satisfied” (Barnett, 2007, pg. 651). This research would also have to include the ways in which people are affected by climate change and most importantly how they respond to it in the sense of their livelihood.

The major contributions that papers has to the class are the four main principals. First, it explains how climate changes may weaken human security by limiting access to and the quality of natural resources required for daily ...

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...ability as compared to climate change investigates the diverse array of social and environmental factors operating over time. These factors include the sensitivity of resources such as freshwater, soils, reefs and fisheries to sudden and incremental changes in climate, the degree to which households and communities rely on these resources to meet their needs and values, and the capacity of social systems to adapt to changes in the temporal distribution and abundance of these resources so that households' and communities' needs and values can continue to be satisfied.

REFERENCES

Barnett, J., Adger, W. (2007). Climate change, human security and violent conflict. School of Social and Enviromental Enquiry, University of Melbourne.

Bartol, A. (2008). Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors. In Miller, H. Violent Offenders. Reading 2. pgs 47-87.

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