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Large-scale climatic changes may lead to international frictions and resource competition between both developed and developing countries for three principal reasons: the major responsibility for the production of greenhouse gases lies with the industrialized countries; the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of climatic changes will be far more equally distributed; and there are major differences in the ability of countries to respond or adapt to climatic impacts. These inequities may complicate the possibility of negotiating international agreements to prevent or slow the greenhouse effect. This paper discusses these three issues, the principal vulnerabilities of both developed countries and developing countries to climatic changes, and mechanisms for improving international cooperation.
SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International Peace and Security; Visiting Research Scholar, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720.
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Gleick, P.H. (1989). Global Climatic Changes and Geopolitics: Pressures on Developed and Developing Countries. In: Berger, A., Schneider, S., Duplessy, J.C. (eds) Climate and Geo-Sciences. NATO ASI Series, vol 285. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2446-8_37
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