Climate Change and Energy Insecurity

The Challenge for Peace, Security and Development

Richard Sherman author Felix Dodds author Richard Sherman editor Felix Dodds editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd Oct '09

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This insightful work explores the intertwined challenges of climate change and energy insecurity. Climate Change and Energy Insecurity is essential for understanding these global issues.

In Climate Change and Energy Insecurity, the authors delve into the pressing global issues stemming from the dual threats of climate change and energy supply challenges. This comprehensive analysis addresses the complexities of meeting future energy demands while navigating the potential security conflicts that may arise from energy scarcity. The book emphasizes the significant role that energy production and consumption play in exacerbating climate change, highlighting the urgent need for solutions that prioritize both sustainability and security.

The first section of the book focuses on energy-related challenges, exploring how various sectors such as oil, gas, nuclear, biofuels, and hydropower contribute to global insecurity. It discusses strategies for ensuring equitable energy access and promoting sustainable consumption across diverse regions, including rapidly industrializing countries like India, China, Brazil, and South Africa. The authors present a nuanced understanding of the interplay between energy demands and the geopolitical tensions that can arise from competition over resources.

The latter parts of Climate Change and Energy Insecurity examine the broader implications of climate change, including its impact on water scarcity, food security, biodiversity, and land degradation. The text also highlights potential pathways for the international community to mitigate these challenges through multilateral cooperation, resource sharing, and the promotion of clean energy technologies. This book serves as a vital resource for anyone interested in the intersections of climate change, energy policy, and global security.

'We must treat climate as a security issue, the most important threat to global security we will ever face. Energy is at the heart of this transition. Climate security and energy security are two sides of the same coin: one cannot be achieved without the other. This book is an important contribution to exploring this vital part of the environmental security agenda.'
Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the Rio and Stockholm UN Conferences

'Climate and energy are two of the most urgent and formidable issues of our times. This seminal text comprehensively details our challenges and explains the ways in which they are inextricably linked to human rights and environmental stewardship.'
P. Simran Sethi, Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communcations, University of Kansas and Founding Writer/ Co-Host of Sundance Channel's environmental programming 'The Green'

'Should the massive stimulus packages mobilized by governments manage to revive somewhat the financial flows within and between countries, it would be quite disastrous for those who control the global economy to assume that business can simply limp back to its old ways. Even if the financial crisis were to be resolved so easily, the other crises - growing poverty, changing climate, depleting resources, vanishing species and peaking energy among them - will throw up another, redoubled financial crisis soon enough. The destruction of our land and ocean ecosystems over the past century with all its consequences for the energy, water and livelihood security of the world's people can only be halted if we understand and deal with the deeper, underlying systemic issues - which are the subject of this extremely important and timely book.'
Ashok Khosla, Chairman, Development Alternatives and President, IUCN and the Club of Rome

ISBN: 9781844078554

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Weight: 750g

320 pages