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Alvarez, Alex,

Unstable ground : climate change, conflict, and genocide / Climate change, conflict, and genocide Alex Alvarez. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. - x, 212 pages ; 24 cm. - Studies in genocide: religion, history, and human rights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making Sense of Climate Change -- On the Origins of Violent Conflict: War and the Genocidal Impulse -- Linking Climate Change and Conflict -- Water, Violent Conflict, and Genocide -- Forced Displacement and Borders in a Warming World -- Preventing Conflict and Building Resilience.

This book 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. The author examines the ways in which resources and global migration patterns will be impacted by climate change and create conditions conducive to violent conflict.

ISBN: 144226568X 9781442265684

LCCN: 2017034272

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Social conflict.
Genocide.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Genocide.
Social conflict.

LC Class. No.: GF71 / .A48 2017