Kick-off meeting of the SSH FP7 project CLICO "Climate change, hydro-conflicts and human resources"
25-27 February 2010, Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma
Media headlines are dominated by the prospect of regional water wars. Clearly, climate change poses threats to human security; hydro-climatic hazards such as droughts and floods have a capacity to exacerbate social tensions, intra- and inter-state conflict. Yet cooperation often trumps conflict, though attention needs also to be paid to cases where domination is masked as cooperation. Surprisingly, there are few peer-reviewed studies rigorously addressing links between climate change, hydrology, conflict and security. The CLICO project -coordinated by the University of Barcelona and 13 teams will fill this gap in knowledge over the social dimensions of climate change, by investigating whether hydro-climatic hazards intensify social tensions and conflicts in the Mediterranean, Maghreb, Middle East and Sahel.
CLICO was selected under a Coordinated Call between the Socio-economic research and humanities programme and the Environment programme. As a result it is forming a 'cluster' with other two projects, CLIMB and WASSERMED selected under the Environment programme.
A joint launch of the three projects was held in Cairo on 28 January 2010 on the occasion of the Science Fair, as described in the attached Press Release issued by the EU Delegation in Cairo (EN
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- Contact: Angela Liberatore