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Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security: Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks

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This policy-focused Global Environmental and Human Security Handbook for the Anthropo-cene (GEHSHA) addresses new security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks posed by global environmental change and disasters. In 6 forewords, 5 preface essays 95 peer reviewed chapters,ntries analyse in 1...

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Main Author: Brauch, Hans Günter (Author)
Other Authors: Oswald, Ursula (Other) , Mesjasz, Czeslaw (Other) , Grin, John (Other) , Kameri-Mbote, Patricia (Other) , Chourou, Béchir (Other) , Dunay, Pál (Other) , Birkmann, Jörn (Other)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Series:Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace vol. 5
In: Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace (vol. 5)

Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-17776-7
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Sicherheitspolitik
Risikoanalyse
Katastrophenrisiko
Umweltkatastrophe
Sicherheit und Ordnung
Anthropogene Klimaänderung
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17776-7
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Author Notes:edited by Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Béchir Chourou, Pál Dunay, Jörn Birkmann
Table of Contents:
  • Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security; Foreword; Foreword; Foreword; Foreword; Foreword; Contents; Acknowledgements; Permissions and Credits; Prefaces; The Anthropocene: Geology by Mankind; Connecting Inconvenient Truths: Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament in a World of Pressing Problems¹; Living in and Coping with World Risk Society; Population Prospects and the Challenges of Sustainability; Towards a Great Land-Use Transformation?; Part I Introduction: Concepts of Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks
  • Part II Securitization of Global Environmental ChangePart III Economic, Social, Environmental Security and Human Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and in Asia; Part IV Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks for Urban Centres in Hazards and Disasters; Part V Coping with Global Environmental Change: Climate Change, Soil and Desertification, Water Management, Food and Health; Part VI Coping with Hazards and Strategies for Coping with Social Vulnerability and Resilience Building
  • Part VII Coping with Global Environmental Change: Scientific, International, Regional and National Political Strategies, Policies and MeasuresPart VIII A Technical Tool: Remote Sensing, Vulnerability Mapping and Indicators of Environmental Security Challenges and Risks; Part IX Towards an Improved Early Warning of Conflicts and Hazards; Part X Summary and Conclusions; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Biographies of Contributors; Index; Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP)

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