{"id":3974,"date":"2015-01-03T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2015-01-03T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T17:03:42","slug":"climate-change-increasing-stresses-on-fragile-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3974","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Increasing Stresses on Fragile States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/climate_change_increasing_stresses_on_fragile_states_20150103\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Change Increasing Stresses on Fragile States<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>LONDON\u2014A chilling account of how climate change is already adding to the problems of conflict and social breakdown in fragile states is contained in an advice document to the staff of the UK\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Department for International Development\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-international-development\" target=\"_blank\">Department for International Development<\/a>\u00a0(DFID).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTopic Guides\u201d on a variety of subjects are briefings to staff on key problems and how to deal with them when providing overseas aid. This guide, called \u201c<a title=\"DFID Topic Guide: Conflict, Climate and Environment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evidenceondemand.info\/topic-guide-conflict-climate-and-environment\" target=\"_blank\">Conflict, Climate Change and Environment\u201d<\/a>, describes how and where society is already breaking down.<\/p>\n<p>Although the guide\u2014compiled by experts from the\u00a0<a title=\"Overseas Development Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.odi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Overseas Development Institute<\/a>(ODI) and\u00a0<a title=\"International Alert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.international-alert.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Alert<\/a>\u00a0(IA)? says climate change is only part of the problem, it concludes that it adds to food and water shortages, rapid urbanisation, unemployment, and weak and corrupt governance, which increase the chance of conflict.<\/p>\n<h3>Most at risk<\/h3>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change Increasing Stresses on Fragile States LONDON\u2014A chilling account of how climate change is already adding to the problems of conflict and social breakdown in fragile states is contained in an advice document to the staff of the UK\u2019s\u00a0Department for International Development\u00a0(DFID). \u201cTopic Guides\u201d on a variety of subjects are briefings to staff on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,2375,690],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-fragile-states","tag-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}