Nigeria: Climate War. Migratory Adaptation and Farmer-Herder Conflicts
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Climate change and its impacts on the physical environment have received increased attention in recent years, spurring debates on its global and local dimensions.While a common ground has been reached on its causes, manifestations and options for mitigation, its human security implications remain poorly understood.Links between climate change and social con lict is one of the most controversial issues in the climate change impacts assessment literature as priorities diverge between generalised scienti ic validity (pedagogy) and context-based security analysis (policy).This paper examines climate change-con lict linkages drawing upon experiences of migrant pastoralists and arable farming host communities in Nigeria.It found a strong causal linkage between exposure to impacts of climate change and growing incidence of con lict over renewable natural resources.It recommends contextualised analyses of the linkage as well as the integration of climate-related con lict into Nigeria's security policy frameworks particularly, its climate change impact assessment and intervention strategies.
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- Ekiti State University, N., Akinyemi, T. E., Olaniyan, A., & Ekiti State University, N.
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- Akinyemi, Temitope Edward
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- Conflict Studies Quarterly
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- 2017-10-03
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- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Keywords
- climate change, climate change and conflict, farmer-herder conflict, pastoral migration, renewable resources, human security, climate impact assessment, security policy, Nigeria
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