Impacts Of Climate Change To Security In Tanzania (A Case Of Selected Organizations)

ABSTRACT

 This study aimed at analyzing the Impacts of Climate Change to security in Tanzania. The task of the study was to find out the extent to which climate change can be a threat which affect security situation in Tanzania, specifically using the experiences of three government organizations. The specific objectives were, to identify the magnitude of climate change and how it influence security situation in Tanzania, to identify the causes of climate change as well as to suggest measures to be taken by Tanzania to overcome the issue of climate change. Purposively, the study selected three local organizations namely, Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA), National Environment Management Council (NEMC) and Ministry of Defence and National service, all located in Dar es Salaam. The study applied Cross Section Survey and data were collected through interviews and questionnaires also analyzed using the aid of Statistic Package for Social Sciences. The study found out that climate change has increasingly been called a ‗security‘ problem, and there has been speculation that climate change may increase the risk of violent conflict. The study also offers new insights into the relationships between climate change, human security, and violent conflict. It explains that climate change increasingly undermines human security in the present day, and will increasingly do so in the future, by reducing access to, and the quality of, natural resources that are important to sustain livelihoods. From these findings, it was recommended that, in order to address this phenomenon there must be in place strong policies of adaptation and mitigation which can be implemented in a collective way between governments, citizens, NGOs and the entire international community