ENVIROMENTAL SECURITY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPERATIVE.

Abstract

This work focuses on the evolution of environmental security in International Relations with climate change as the imperative of the 21st century. Climate change effects are shaping the scenarios of International Relations, providing that new approaches towards international security, including climate change in them, are necessary. Climate change is review in this work as a risk multiplier for the international community. The Nile Basin was used as the case study to review the implications of climate change events in transboundary water systems linking it with resource scarcity and conflict.