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Addressing socioeconomic and political challenges posed by climate change

NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Climate Change, Human Health and National Security ; Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28–30 April 2011 ; Climate change has been identified as one of the most serious threats to humanity. It not only causes sea level rise, drought, crop failure, vector-borne diseases, extreme events, degradation of water and air quality, heat waves, and other phenomena, but it is also a threat multiplier wherein concatenation of multiple events may lead to frequent human catastrophes and intranational and international conflicts. In particular, urban areas may bear the brunt of climate change because of the amplification of climate effects that cascade down from global to urban scales, but current modeling and downscaling capabilities are unable to predict these effects with confidence. These were the main conclusions of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) sponsored by the NATO Science for Peace and Security program. Thirty-two invitees from 17 counties, including leading modelers ; natural, political, and social scientists ; engineers ; politicians ; military experts ; urban planners ; industry analysts ; epidemiologists ; and health care professionals, parsed the topic on a common platform.

human health; national security

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