Ebook: Food and water scarcity – A key factor in future conflicts?

The extended concept of security means that
many additional factors now influence security
policy considerations. These factors include
food and water scarcity and the interrelationship
between this problem and existing conflict potential.
The present study will address this issue in the context
of the water-food-energy-climate nexus. It will outline
global trends and, by focusing on the example of water
scarcity and a number of relevant cases, will show that
conflicts do not necessarily have to be aggravated but
can also be dealt with, to a certain extent, in a multilateral,
cooperative way. Progressing climate change
will lead to greater challenges in this area, but they will
remain firstly humanitarian, development policy and
climate policy challenges and only secondly security
challenges.