Climate Change and Disaster Management

Climate change has far reaching implications for disaster risk management. The catastrophic impacts of climate change threaten the safety and stability of worldwide communities. According to a 2003 U.S. Defense Department study, climate change is a significant security threat. This analysis projected widespread regional conflict and even riots in some countries with a scarcity of food, water, and energy and argued that global warming and climate change “must be viewed as a serious threat to global stability and should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a national security concern” (Miller, 2005).