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Unstable ground climate change, conflict, and genocide

"Unstable Ground 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...

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Main Author: Alvarez, Alex (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Edition:Updated edition.
Series:Studies in genocide.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Social conflict.
Genocide.
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Summary:"Unstable Ground 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. This new paperback edition features a new substantive introduction by the author that addresses how recent tumultuous political, social, and environmental events will have a critical impact on these issues"--
Physical Description:x, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781538161517
1538161516
Author Notes:Alex Alvarez is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. He was the founding director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. He is the author of several books, including Governments, Citizens, and Genocide, Genocidal Crimes, and Native America and the Question of Genocide. He has also served as an editor for the journal Violence and Victims, and he was a founding coeditor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention.

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