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

By Hans Günter Brauch , Úrsula Oswald Spring , John Grin , Czeslaw Mesjasz , Patricia Kameri-Mbote , Béchir Chourou , Úrsula Oswald Spring (auth.) , Pál Dunay , Jörn Birkmann (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2011
ISBN
3642177751, 9783642177750
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-17776-7
ISSN
1865-5793
Google Books ID
DQ1HYgEACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL25173361M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
172 MB (180316060 bytes)
Series
Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace 5
Edition
1
Pages
1815\1871
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Ecotoxicology; Geography (general); Environmental

Description

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 chapcountries analyse in 10 parts concepts of military and political hard security and economic, social, environmental soft security with a regional focus on the Near East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia and on hazards in urban centres. The major focus is on coping with global environmental change: climate change, desertifi­ca­tion, water, food and health and with hazards and strategies on social vulnerability and resilience building and scientific, international, regional and national political strategies, policies and measures including early warning of conflicts and hazards. The book proposes a political geo-ecology and discusses a ‘Fourth Green Revolution’ for the Anthropocene era of earth history.

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