Socio-economic impacts in a Changing Climate: Case Study Syria

摘要

As a result of climate change, it is clear in thecoming years to provide an instability for conflict zones. Climate change haspotential socio-economic consequences in addition to environmental impacts.Drought is one of the result of climate change especially in Mediterranean. Itcan also increase by unsustainable government policies and effects quality oflife of people. Decreasing of water resources and rural land using force peopleto migrate from rural areas to urban areas as a consequence of low productivityfrom agriculture and animal husbandry, rising of food prices and decreasing ofwealth level. Results of climate change have differences depends on features ofcountries as climate vulnerability, social policies, ethnicity. In this studywe evaluate socio-economic impacts of 2006-2010 severe drought in Syriacomparing with other climate impacted countries. There are a number of studiesin which the Syrian war is overstated by the excess of the relationship as muchas the work that expresses the emergence of climate changes as a result. Weobserved that in addition current problems in Syria, drought between 2007 and2010 contributed to uprising in 2011 and consequently to immigration, conflictand terrorism. It is not wrong to evaluate that the impact of the spread ofconflicts inherited from generations before the arid years of succession is atleast as effective as the causes of other conflicts. The long-term effects ofclimate change, which has begun to emerge, indicate potential conflicts thatcan develop in water-scarce, multicultural geographies, particularly in theMiddle East.