Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict

Provides a brief assessment of how natural resource scarcity and global climate change may alter the risk of violent conflict in the future. Resource scarcity to meet basic needs such as food and land and water can be worsened by governmental ineffectiveness, and vulnerability of populations, ecosys...

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Main Author:	Evans, Alex
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9191

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spelling	okr-10986-91912021-04-23T14:02:44Z Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict Evans, Alex World Development Report 2011 Provides a brief assessment of how natural resource scarcity and global climate change may alter the risk of violent conflict in the future. Resource scarcity to meet basic needs such as food and land and water can be worsened by governmental ineffectiveness, and vulnerability of populations, ecosystems, economies, and institutions can outweigh the magnitude of climate or scarcity impacts themselves. Resource availability must be seen not as a stand-alone issue, but rather in the context of the overall political economy landscape. Policymakers can benefit from the use of surveillance, early warning systems, and risk anticipation to plan for coming natural disasters and associated scarcity. Development of resilience can offer valuable adaptation and risk reduction methodologies while international action needs to focus on improving cooperation and resilience of international markets through multilateral trade rules or stockpiling of key commodities. 2012-06-26T15:40:33Z 2012-06-26T15:40:33Z 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9191 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa South Asia
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description	Provides a brief assessment of how natural resource scarcity and global climate change may alter the risk of violent conflict in the future. Resource scarcity to meet basic needs such as food and land and water can be worsened by governmental ineffectiveness, and vulnerability of populations, ecosystems, economies, and institutions can outweigh the magnitude of climate or scarcity impacts themselves. Resource availability must be seen not as a stand-alone issue, but rather in the context of the overall political economy landscape. Policymakers can benefit from the use of surveillance, early warning systems, and risk anticipation to plan for coming natural disasters and associated scarcity. Development of resilience can offer valuable adaptation and risk reduction methodologies while international action needs to focus on improving cooperation and resilience of international markets through multilateral trade rules or stockpiling of key commodities.
author	Evans, Alex
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title	Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict
title_short	Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict
title_full	Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict
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title_full_unstemmed	Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict
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Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict

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