The Security Implications of Climate Change

Podesta, John D.; Ogden, Peter

doi:10.1162/wash.2007.31.1.115

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“…Mangroves have been converted to rice and shrimp and river flows altered by dams, barrages and embankments together reducing biodiversity (Gopal and Chauhan 2006). Increased flood in low-lying coastal delta areas as in Bangladesh could produce large numbers of displaced people-climate refugees-and associated security challenges for Bangladesh's neighbours (Biermann and Boas 2010;Podesta and Ogden 2007).…”

Section: Local Adaptation and Ecosystem Resiliencementioning

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Pursuits of adaptiveness in the shared rivers of Monsoon Asia

Lebel

Bastakoti

et al. 2010

Int Environ Agreements

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How water should be managed in Monsoon Asia is emerging as one of the core earth system governance challenges. In this article, we explore the politics around pursuits of adaptiveness in water management, emphasizing the major transboundary river basins draining the south and eastern Himalayas. We look at two main functions: storing, diverting and sharing water for periods of scarcity; protecting people and places from destructive floods. We find that the pursuit of adaptiveness will take place partly outside the range of human experience in a context of large differences in exposure and vulnerabilities, disparate interests and unequal power. Anticipatory policies and actions to adapt and improve adaptive capacity to the transboundary impacts of changes in water-use, landuse and climate on water resources and services are still in their infancy; but several problem-framing discourses are emerging that have longer-term implications for water governance. It is not yet clear how these competing policy-frames will evolve in Asia. Much will depend on how systems of water governance develop. Public scrutiny of how governments in Asia plan to adapt to climate change in the water sector-on how risks of not enough and too much water are dealt with-will need to continue to help sort out those projects and strategies which are driven primarily by political benefits from those which actually contribute to building adaptive capacities and maintaining social-ecological resilience.

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Section: Local Adaptation and Ecosystem Resiliencementioning

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Pursuits of adaptiveness in the shared rivers of Monsoon Asia

Lebel

Bastakoti

et al. 2010

Int Environ Agreements

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“…Petroleum is the leading source of all energy supply in the United States at 39.8%, providing 96% of transportation fuel and 44% of industrial fuel. Not until recently, The United States imports the majority of its oil from Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela and Nigeria (Deutch and Schlesinger, 2006;Podesta and Ogden, 2007;Beddor et al, 2009). It is noteworthy to state that the OPEC members used to produce approximately half of US oil supply.…”

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Nigeria and World Bank Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) Partnership: The Tragedy of the Commons

Aniche

2015

SSRN Journal

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Globally, over 150 billion cubic metres of associated gas are being flared and vented annually. Africa flares 40 billion cubic metres annually in which 35 billion cubic metres are flared in sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria alone, gas flaring amounts to about 23 billion cubic metres per annum in over 100 flare sites, constituting over 13 percent of global gas flaring. This translates to greenhouse gas emission of 45 million tons of CO2 out of the global total of 400 million tons annually. Nigeria partners with the GGFR, a World Bank led public-private partnership that includes major oil and gas producing countries and companies. The GGFR was established to facilitate and support national efforts to utilize currently flared gas by promoting effective regulatory framework and tackling the constraints on gas utilization. The study essentially adopts qualitative method that relies on secondary data and applies radical environmentalism a combination of Marxism, rentierism and environmentalism as theoretical framework of analysis. The paper focuses primarily on the role of Nigeria in the GGFR vis a vis other partners; and thus, concludes that oil dependence of GGFR partners undermines the enforcement of associated gas flaring and venting reduction and elimination policy in Nigeria.

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“…In addition to the threat to the Earth's ecosystems, climate change is also a severe economic problem, with the costs of inaction far outweighing the mitigation costs (Stern 2006). Some argue that climate change is also an emerging security problem as it could act as a 'threat multiplier', creating an enabling environment for conflicts over the management of migration and the distribution of resources (Klare 2007;Podesta and Ogden 2007;Dupont 2008).…”

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The Politics and Institutions of global Energy Governance

Graaf

2013

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The Security Implications of Climate Change

Cited by 71 publications

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Pursuits of adaptiveness in the shared rivers of Monsoon Asia

Pursuits of adaptiveness in the shared rivers of Monsoon Asia

Nigeria and World Bank Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) Partnership: The Tragedy of the Commons

The Politics and Institutions of global Energy Governance

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