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

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 84 - 93, 04.04.2018

Duygu Ülker , Orhan Ergüven , Cem Gazioğlu

https://doi.org/10.30897/ijegeo.406273

Cited By: 17

Abstract

As a result of climate change, it is clear in the
coming years to provide an instability for conflict zones. Climate change has
potential socio-economic consequences in addition to environmental impacts.
Drought is one of the result of climate change especially in Mediterranean. It
can also increase by unsustainable government policies and effects quality of
life of people. Decreasing of water resources and rural land using force people
to migrate from rural areas to urban areas as a consequence of low productivity
from agriculture and animal husbandry, rising of food prices and decreasing of
wealth level. Results of climate change have differences depends on features of
countries as climate vulnerability, social policies, ethnicity. In this study
we evaluate socio-economic impacts of 2006-2010 severe drought in Syria
comparing with other climate impacted countries. There are a number of studies
in which the Syrian war is overstated by the excess of the relationship as much
as the work that expresses the emergence of climate changes as a result. We
observed that in addition current problems in Syria, drought between 2007 and
2010 contributed to uprising in 2011 and consequently to immigration, conflict
and terrorism. It is not wrong to evaluate that the impact of the spread of
conflicts inherited from generations before the arid years of succession is at
least as effective as the causes of other conflicts. The long-term effects of
climate change, which has begun to emerge, indicate potential conflicts that
can develop in water-scarce, multicultural geographies, particularly in the
Middle East.

Keywords

Syria, Immigration, drought, climate change, climate oscillation

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