Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security: threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks ; with 78 tables
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin Heidelberg [u.a.]
Springer
2011
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| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Series: | Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace
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Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace (5)
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3607953&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://d-nb.info/1009480863/04 
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| Author Notes: | Berghof Foundation. Hans Günter Brauch ... (eds.) |
Table of Contents:
- Securitization of global environmental change
- Economic, social, environmental security and human threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia
- Threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks for urban centres in hazards and disasters
- Coping with global environmental changes : climate change, soil and desertification, water management, food and health
- Climate change
- Soil and desertification
- Water management
- Coping with food security issues
- Coping with health security issues
- Coping with hazards and strategies for coping with social vulnerability and resilience building
- Coping with global environmental change : scientific, international , regional and national political strategies, policies and measures
- Scientific research goals and strategies for coping with global environmental change
- Global strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change
- Regional strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change
- National strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change
- A technical tool : remote sensing, vulnerability mapping and indicators of environmental security challenges and risks
- Towards an improved early warning of conflicts and hazards.