ABSTRACT
Though the subject of just one of the many important chapters in this book, climate change (CC) is connected to them all. The security implications of past, present, and future climate-related changes affect health/disease, migration, food availability, political in/stability, and terrorism to name just a few. In fact, CC overlaps with almost every policy area considered in this volume. On the one hand, this heightens the importance of CC as a phenomenon and subject of public policy. This is exemplified by the milieu of actors, from the international to sub-local, that are devoting resources to addressing its causes and impacts. On the other hand, it corroborates the designation of CC as the ultimate “wicked problem” (Head 2008; Termeer, Dewulf, and Breeman 2013), a “wicked social problem” (Grundmann 2016) or even a “super wicked problem” (Lazarus 2009; Levin et al. 2012).
