Climate change and national security: balancing the costs and benefits

Title: Climate change and national security: balancing the costs and benefits
Creator: Stewart, Mark G.
Relation: A Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security p. 137-154
Relation: http://www.cato.org/events/dangerous-world-threat-perception-us-national-security-2014
Publisher: Cato Institute Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: In 2012, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey contended that “we are living in the most dangerous time in my lifetime, right now.” In 2013, he was more assertive, stating that the world is “more dangerous than it has ever been.” Is this accurate? In this book, an edited volume of papers presented at the Cato Institute’s Dangerous World Conference, experts on international security assess, and put in context, the supposed dangers to American security. The authors examine the most frequently referenced threats, including wars between nations and civil wars within nations, and discuss the impact of rising nations, weapons proliferation, general unrest, transnational crime, and state failures.
Subject: climate change; national security; U.S. politics; economic costs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066295
Identifier: uon:18071
Identifier: ISBN:9781939709400
Language: eng