Climate Security: The Role of Knowledge and Scientific Information in the Making of a Nexus

This book presents an empirical study of the role of knowledge in the making of the climate-security nexus.

Climate change might give the Soviet Union a competitive advantage in the Cold War. Extreme droughts contributed to wars in Darfur, Syria or Yemen. Melting sea ice creates geopolitical risks. Russia’s climate-destroying hydrocarbons enabled its invasion of Ukraine. These are just some of the many ways in which climate change and conflicts have been linked into a climate-security nexus....