Overview
- State-of-the art assesment of research on climate change-security links
- Addresses a variety of topics within the climate change-security framework
- Combines research of about 40 international experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HSHES, volume 8)
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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Introduction
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Climate Change, Human Security, Societal Stability, and Violent Conflict: Empirical and Theoretical Linkages
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Climate Change and the Securitization Discourse
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Climate Change and Migration
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Brzoska is professor at the University of Hamburg and director of the Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy. He erlier had positions at the Bonn International Center for Conversion and the Stockholm Peace Research Institute working on issues related to conflict, security and disarmament.
Hans Günter Brauch is adjunct professor (PD) in international relations at the Free University of Berlin; chairman, Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS; senior fellow at UNU-EHS in Bonn and the lead editor of the Hexagon Book Series. He was guest professor at Frankfurt, Erfurt, Leipzig and Greifswald University.
Peter Michael Link is a postdoctoral scientist at the research group Climate change and Security at the Institute for Geography and the KlimaCampus Excellence Initiative of Hamburg University. He has worked on the economic impacts of climate change with an emphasis on marine resources and aspects of land use change.
Janpeter Schilling is a research associate and PhD student in the research group Climate Change
and Security at the Institute for Geography and in the KlimaCampus Excellence Initiative of Hamburg University. In the course of his studies he focused on different aspects related to climate change.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict
Book Subtitle: Challenges for Societal Stability
Editors: Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Hans Günter Brauch, Peter Michael Link, Janpeter Schilling
Series Title: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28625-4Published: 08 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52185-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28626-1Published: 26 May 2012
Series ISSN: 1865-5793
Series E-ISSN: 1865-5807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 873
Topics: Geography, general, Climate Change Management and Policy, Economics, general, Environment, general