Climate Change Refugees: The Impact of Environment on Human Security

Increasing industrial activities through the last decadeshave resulted in the fundamental changes in the climaticpatterns. In the most vulnerable places, these climatechanges could lead to the disasters such as sea level rise,frequency of the extreme weather, drought and waterscarcity. One of the most important consequences of theseevents on humans’ lives is the creation of the new flowsof forced migration. It is predicted that over the course ofthis century more than two hundred million people will bedisplaced as a direct consequence of climate change.Emergence of a new group of asylum seekers almosttwenty times bigger than what the refugee instrumentscurrently protect would become a threat to aninternational peace and security; this can be known as oneof the most devastating impact of environment of humanSecurity. This paper is a knowledge-based researchintends to perceive the emergence of climate changerefugees and consequence of their mass movements oninternational security.

Keywords:

Environment , climate change , refugee , internationalpeace , human security