The Center for Climate and Security, in collaboration with Oxford University and the Planetary Security Initiative, will launch its new report Epicenters of Climate and Security: The New Geo-Strategic Landscape of the Anthropocene on Friday, 9 June at the 4th Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference, held at the School of Geography.
This report is a multi-author, multi-institutional edited volume exploring “epicenters of climate and security”: how climate change interacts with the existing geostrategic landscape, how it will generate new stresses – some potentially unprecedented – and how climate-exacerbated stress to one geographic location can have impacts thousands of miles away, potentially spilling over into higher-order security scenarios.
This volume explores the “new geostrategic landscape of the Anthropocene”, examining topics ranging from health, coastal megacities, migration, the Arctic, nuclear security, water weaponization, satellites and remote monitoring, mapping and foresight tools.
The report concludes with a section on the tools available to manage systemic risks and to prepare for and mitigate the risks associated with this changing geo-strategic landscape.
The launch event will include a discussion by report authors followed by an interactive exercise, bringing together practitioners and regional experts to explore scenario-building and vulnerability assessment tools available for managing systemic risks. It will invite input into how they can be improved; this exercise is part of an ongoing initiative by the workshop hosts to refine the tools needed to manage systemic risks.
Epicenters of Climate and Security is a multi-institution report, launched in partnership with the Planetary Security Initiative, the University of Oxford and others.
For further information, or to register your interest in attending, please contact Shiloh Fetzek. The full programme can be downloaded here.