Climate & Security Resources

While by no means a comprehensive list, the following Climate & Security resources were identified during the course of this project.  They are provided as resources for further information on this subject. 

AEPI.  2007.  Army Foresight: Climate Change and Army Sustainability.  Army Environmental Policy Institute (AEPI).  See
http://www.aepi.army.mil/foresight/jul07-ccas.pdf

BAS.  2008.  "Climate Change and Security- How is global warming affecting existing competition for resources and changing international security priorities? Survey of recent research."  Climate change and security, May/June 2008, Vol. 64, Issue 2. 19-25.  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS).  See
http://www.thebulletin.org/ & http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/926l0jg36j374838/fulltext.pdf

Beebe, S.D.  2008.  Why Climate Change and Environment Don’t Matter to National Security (January 29, 2008).  Global Strategy Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies.  See
http://forums.csis.org/gsi/?p=726

Bentley, Molly.   Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock'.
 BBC News Web Page.  See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6270871.stm

Buhauga, Halvard, Gleditsch, Nils Petter & Magnus Theisena, Ole.  2008.  Implications of Climate Change for Armed Conflict.  World Bank workshop on Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Washington D.C., 5–6 March 2008.  The World Bank.  See
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTSOCIALDEVELOPMEN
T/0,,contentMDK:21651192~isCURL:Y~pagePK:210058~piPK:210062~theSite
PK:244363,00.html

CSIS.  2008.  Climate Change Tag.  Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  Global Strategy Institute.  See
http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?tag=climate-change

Catarious, D.M., Filadelfo, R., Gaffney, H., Maybee, S., and Morehouse, T.  2007.  National Security And The Threat Of Climate Change.  Military Advisory Board of the CNA Corporation.  The CNA Corporation.  6-8.  See
http://securityandclimate.cna.org/

CCSP. 2008.  Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems (SAP 4.6). US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP).  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 2008.  See
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=197244

CCSP.  2008.  Unified Synthesis Product, Global Climate Change in the United States (17 July 2008).  US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP).  See
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/usp/public-review-draft/

CSIS.  2008.  Dealing with Energy Security and Climate Change Simultaneously.  Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  Global Strategy Institute.  See
http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?s=Dealing+with+Energy+Secu

CSIS.  2008.  The Pentagon and Climate Change Policy: Strategy Needed  Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  Global Strategy Institute.  See
http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?s=The+Pentagon+and+Climate

Dessai, S., Adger, W.N., Hulme, M., Turnpenny, J., Köhler, J., and Warren, R.  2004.  Defining and Experiencing Dangerous Climate Change.  Journal Climatic Change, Vol. 64, No. 1-2 (May 2004).  Springer Netherlands.  11-25.

FedCenter.gov.  2009.  Climate Change Interagency Working Group.  FedCenter.gov Web Page.  See
http://www.fedcenter.gov/Articles/index.cfm?id=9915

Fingar, Thomas.  2008.  National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030 (25 June 2008).  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence & House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.  National Intelligence Council (NIC). See
http://media.npr.org/documents/2008/jun/warming_intelligence.pdf

FOI.  2008.  Global security is affected by climate change.  FOI Web Page  Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).  See
http://www.foi.se/FOI/Templates/NewsPage____6737.aspx

Halden, Peter.  2007.  The Geopolitics of Climate Change: Challenges to the International System.  Swedish Defence Research Agency.  See http://www2.foi.se/rapp/foir2377.pdf

Homerdixon.  No Date.  Climate Resources. Homerdixon Web Page.  See
http://www.homerdixon.com/download/resources-climatechange.pdf

IISD.  2009.  Climate Change and Security Web Page.  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).  See
http://www.iisd.org/security/es/climate/

IISD.  2009.  CLIMATE-L.ORG Web Page.  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).  See
http://www.climate-l.org/

IISD.  2009.  Environment and Security (E&S) Web Page.  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).  See
http://www.iisd.org/security/es/policy/ 

Schwartz, P. and Randall, D.  2003.  Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security (October 2003).  GBN: Global Business Network.  See
http://www.gbn.com/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=26231

SEI.  2002.  International Workshop on Vulnerability and Global Environmental Change.  SEI Web Page.  Stolkholm Environmental Institute (SEI).  See
http://www.sei.se/risk/workshop3.html

Nordås, Ragnhild.  2005.  Climate Conflicts: Common Sense or Nonsense?  13th Annual National Political Science Conference, Hurdalsjøen, Norway, 5–7 January, 2005.  Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU & International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).  See
http://www.statsvitenskap.uio.no/konferanser/nfkis/cr/Nordas.pdf

Pacific Institute.  No Date.  Climate and International Security Web Page.  Pacific Institute.  See
http://www.pacinst.org/topics/global_change/climate_security/index.htm

The Public Manager.  2008.  FORUM CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, Winter 2008-09 — Volume 37, Number 4.  The Public Manager and LMI Research Institute.  See
http://www.thepublicmanager.org/journal/issueAbstract.aspx

Pumphrey, C.   2008.  Global Climate Change National Security Implications.  Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.  See
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=862

UK MOD.  2007.  Strategic Trends 2007- 2036.  UK MOD Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC).  See
http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/94A1F45E-A830-49DB-B319-DF68C28D561D/
0/strat_trends_17mar07.pdf

United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).
http://www.ehs.unu.edu/

U.S. Congress.  2007.  National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, H. R. 1585.  110th Congress, U.S. Congress.  U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).  495.  See
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&
docid=f:h1585eh.txt.pdf

Weisshaar, Rachel.  2008.  Sparks Fly at Joint Hearing on National Intelligence Assessment of Climate Change’s National Security Implications (Thursday, June 26, 2008).  The New Security Beat.  The Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  See
http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/2008/06/sparks-fly-at-joint-hearing-on-
national.html

If you are aware of additional climate & security resources, please submit the citation information to envsec[at]gmu.edu for inclusion in this list.