Alex Alvarez

Unstable Ground (eBook, PDF)

Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity-ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence. Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including Darfur, Syria, and the current migration crisis, this book illustrates the thorny intersections of climate change and violence. The author doesn't claim causation but makes a compelling case that changing environmental circumstances can be a critical factor in facilitating violent conflict. As research suggests climate change will continue and accelerate, understanding how it might contribute to violence is essential in understanding how to prevent it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765182246
• Artikelnr.: 74397787

Autorenporträt

Dr. Alex Alvarez is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. From 2001 until 2003 he was the founding Director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. In 2017-2018, he served as the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. His main areas of study are in the areas of collective and interpersonal violence and his previous books include Government, Citizens, and Genocide, Murder American Style, Violence: The Enduring Problem, Genocidal Crimes, Native America and the Question of Genocide, and Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Making Sense of Climate Change
Chapter 2: On the Origins of Violent Conflict: War and the Genocidal
Impulse
Chapter 3: Linking Climate Change and Conflict
Chapter 4: Water, Violent Conflict, and Genocide
Chapter 5: Forced Displacement and Borders in a Warming World
Chapter 6: Preventing Conflict and Building Resilience