Gaia's Revenge: Climate Change and Humanity's Loss
208Gaia's Revenge: Climate Change and Humanity's Loss
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Overview
In February 2004, a Pentagon report on climate change and its implication for national security received extraordinary attention and publicity. Public attention, however, focused almost exclusively on portents of inevitable doom and disaster—most particularly on a scenario outlining a possible future similar to a climate event of 8,200 years ago and its impact on the availability of food, energy, and water.
This book offers a broad examination of the meaning of climate change and global warming while maintaining a strategic perspective on the implications of environmental effects on all forms of security—national, international, and human (transcending borders and having more to do with basic resources). Given the uncertainty surrounding climate change as a specific event, the authors argue for recognizing the profound social, political, and human impact that could take place in the coming years. While recognizing the inherent dangers of prediction, Liotta and Shearer effectively present the case that the time to not only recognize—but deal with—potentially profound outcomes is now.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780275987978 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 12/30/2006 |
Series: | Politics and the Environment Series |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Allan W. Shearer is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey. His work focuses on the development and use of scenarios for environmental planning and management decisions.
What People are Saying About This
"Liotta and Shearer push us to take seriously the science-practice interface, a needed two-way dialogue between climate scientists and the wider policymaking community. In a time when the newspaper headlines push us to narrow our security frame, the authors set climate change within a broader security context that helps move the issue from disconnected scientific inquiry to pressing policy imperative."
"Gaia's Revenge is a sobering rendition of the climate-change discourse. It sharply articulates the link between environment and human security, contributing immensely to a fast-evolving field of study."
"Nuanced, subtle, and meticulously researched, here is the first book welding imminent climate change and multi-faceted national security upheavals into scenarios central in public-policy making."