Implications of climate change for policing
Climate change presents a significant threat to the safety and security of communities and nations around the globe. As climate change accelerates disasters and threatens critical infrastructure, the police are already on the front line of responding to this crisis. Climate change appears to be acce...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2025
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Routledge international handbook of policing crises and emergencies
Year: 2025, Pages: 117-127 |
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| Summary: | Climate change presents a significant threat to the safety and security of communities and nations around the globe. As climate change accelerates disasters and threatens critical infrastructure, the police are already on the front line of responding to this crisis. Climate change appears to be accelerating severe weather events, as well as increasing droughts, wildfires, and other disaster events. These incidents create capacity and response challenges for public safety and emergency planning agencies, while also placing their personnel at risk. Beyond mitigating the public safety risks of these relatively short-term disaster events, climate change also poses longer-term consequences that will influence police, including population migration, economic downturns, and conflict of all types. This chapter examines the likely consequences climate change will pose for societies and communities, in particular those with consequences for policing. In addition, the chapter explores the challenges climate disasters are likely to pose to policing in both the short term and the long term. The chapter does not seek to provide definitive solutions to the policing implications of the climate crisis but rather to encourage awareness and dialog as policing systems around the world increasingly confront this emerging problem. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 126-127 |
| ISBN: | 9781032207872 |
