ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY ISSUES IN THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION

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If not addressed and resolved, environmental problems – water shortages, land degradation, pollution – can become security threats. In this respect the Mediterranean is one of the world’s most vulnerable areas. Its basic climatic and environmental features, combined with its cultural, geopolitical and economic complexity, have high potential for social and political instability. If the economic disparity between north and south continues to increase and if the impacts of climate change on the region turn out as predicted, the risk of conflict will affect the whole region, perhaps the whole world.

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environment, news & politics

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news & politics / grid / grid-arendal / unep / medsec / zoi environment network / vicken cheterian

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English

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