North Africa is a strategically important region for Europe largely because of its proximity, with the broader transatlantic policy community exercising particular concern where Africa’s problems spillover. This study aims to reach a better understanding of how climate change and physical sources of vulnerability to natural hazards might intersect with North Africa’s various demographic, social, and political sources of weakness.

This is the full text of the study, and the pdf is a very large file (14 MB), which may be slow to download on some computers. It may also be faster to download from an alternative document-sharing website, scribd.com, and a four-page synopsis of the study is also available here.