Nexus Between Climate Change and Human Insecurity: Implications for Pakistan

Climate Change (CC) is a critical issue for South Asia. To justify this assumption, this study first discusses the relationship between climate change and security. In most of this CC and security nexus work, however, primary efforts to find ways that connect CC and security especially non-traditional security have been made by scholars like Homer-Dixon and Myres. Generally, two assumptions have been made by most of these scholars. One, according to them, CC or environmental degradation could lead to instability by disrupting social and administrative relations and, therefore, could result in “civil turmoil and outright violence”. Second, CCinduced insecurities will evenly be engendered internally as well as externally. Fears are also there over the possibility of the emergence of “failed state” as a result of which CC could nurture extremist ideologies. Finally, CC could result in inter and intra state conflict whose “spill over” effect could result in divergent regional implication. It is in this context that the paper moves on to discuss the implications of CC in general and on South Asia in particular, discussing effects on Pakistan specifically. In the similar vein, it further endeavors to comprehend some particular CC induced effects together with the explanation of the effects of CC on Human Security (HS) in South Asia (SA). To ensure HS, the study concludes, tackling effects of CC is need of the hour.