Overview
- The handbook addresses scientific issues of utmost importance for UNEP
- Identifies roadmap for multi-disciplinary research on global environmental change
- High-quality, multidisciplinary study and reference book
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HSHES, volume 5)
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Table of contents (95 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Concepts of Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks
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Front Matter
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Securitization of Global Environmental Change
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Keywords
About this book
Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks reviews conceptual debates and case studies focusing on disasters and security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in Europe, the Mediterranean and other regions.
It discusses social science concepts of vulnerability and risks, global, regional and national security challenges, global warming, floods, desertification and drought as environmental security challenges, water and food security challenges and vulnerabilities, vulnerability mapping of environmental security challenges and risks, contributions of remote sensing to the recognition of security risks, mainstreaming early warning of conflicts and hazards and provides conceptual and policy conclusions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hans Günter Brauch, Adj. Prof. (PD) at the Free University of Berlin, chairman of AFES-PRESS, senior fellow at UNU-EHS in Bonn and editor of this series; he publishes on security and environment issues. ula Oswald Spring, Professor at UNAM-CRIM, xico; first UNU-EHS chair on social vulnerability; she writes on sustainability, development, gender, disaster, poverty and collaborates with peasants.
John Grin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam; he publishes on societal transformations in water management, agriculture and health care, and advices practitioners.
Czeslaw Mesjasz, Assoc. Professor, Management, Cracow University of Economics; he publishes on systems and game theory, conflict resolution, negotiation, economics, finance and security.
Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Professor, Strathmore University; Programme Director, International Environmental Law Research Centre, Nairobi; she writes on law, development, property, environment and gender.
Béchir Chourou, Director, University of Tunis-Carthage, he taught International Relations at University of Tunis; he publishes on Euro-Mediterranean relations, food policy and human security in the Arab world.Pal Dunay, Faculty Member, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Director of International Training Course in Security Policy; he publishes on European security, the post-Soviet space and conventional arms control.
Jörn Birkmann, Adj. Prof. (PD) at Bonn University, Head, Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Management and Adaptive Planning Section, United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security
Book Subtitle: Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks
Editors: Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Béchir Chourou, Pál Dunay, … Jörn Birkmann
Series Title: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17776-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-17775-0Published: 24 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51799-4Published: 04 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-17776-7Published: 03 February 2011
Series ISSN: 1865-5793
Series E-ISSN: 1865-5807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: CII, 1818
Topics: Ecotoxicology, Geography, general, Environmental Economics, Political Science, Biogeosciences