Publication

This collection of essays argues that climate change has acted as a ‘threat multiplier’ in the Arab world – i.e., it has exacerbated assorted environmental, social, economic and political drivers of unrest. Some of the drivers include drought, food scarcity and survival-centered migration. They and others like them, the essays collectively conclude, will continue to visit mischief on the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and they will do so with greater severity as the region’s climate continues to change.