Facing Global Environmental Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-18

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2. Contextualization of Global Environmental Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Introduction: Facing Global Environmental Change and Sectorialization of Security

      • Hans Günter Brauch

      Pages 21-42

   3. The International System, Great Powers, and Environmental Change since 1900

      • J.R. McNeill

      Pages 43-52

   4. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Securing Interactions between Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being

      • Rik Leemans

      Pages 53-61

3. Securitization of Global Environmental Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-64

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   2. Securitizing Global Environmental Change

      • Hans Günter Brauch

      Pages 65-102

   3. Natural Climatic Variations in the Holocene: Past Impacts on Cultural History, Human Welfare and Crisis

      • Wolf Dieter Blümel

      Pages 103-118

   4. Climate Change Impacts on the Environment and Civilization in the Near East

      • Arie S. Issar, Mattanyah Zohar

      Pages 119-130

   5. Human Security, Climate Change and Small Islands

      • Yannis N. Kinnas

      Pages 131-139

   6. Redefining Sustainability: A Policy Tool for Environmental Security and Desertification

      • Rajeb Boulharouf, Douglas Pattie

      Pages 141-149

   7. Societal Impacts of Desertification: Migration and Environmental Refugees?

      • Andreas Rechkemmer

      Pages 151-158

   8. Desertification in Algeria: Policies and Measures for the Protection of Natural Resources

      • Ghazi Ali

      Pages 159-173

   9. Securitizing Water

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch

      Pages 175-202

   10. Changing Population Size and Distribution as a Security Concern

       • Wolfgang Lutz

       Pages 203-213

   11. Life on the Edge: Urban Social Vulnerability and Decentralized, Citizen-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Four Large Cities of the Pacific Rim

       • Ben Wisner, Juha Uitto

       Pages 215-231

   12. Policy Dimensions of Human Security and Vulnerability Challenges. The Case of Urban India

       • Isabelle Milbert

       Pages 233-242

4. Securitization of Extreme Natural and Societal Outcomes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-244

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   2. Interactions between Conflict and Natural Hazards: Swords, Ploughshares, Earthquakes, Floods and Storms

      • Ben Wisner

      Pages 245-256

   3. AIDS as a Human Security Challenge

      • Nana K. Poku, Bjorg Sandkjaer

      Pages 257-268

The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally. Much of the information and knowledge that was created in this field during the year was the result of the findings of the Fourth - sessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which were disseminated on a large scale and reported extensively by the media. This was the result not only of a heightened interest on the part of the public on various aspects of climate change, but also because the IPCC itself proactively attempted to spread the findings of its AR4 to the public at large. The interest generated on the scientific realities of climate change was further enhanced by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and former Vice President of the US, Al Gore. By taking this decision in favour of a leader who has done a great deal to create awareness on c- mate change, and a body that assesses all scientific aspects of climate change and disseminates the result of its findings, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has clearly drawn the link between climate change and peace in the world.

• Climate Change
• Desertification
• Environmental Policy
• Human Geography
• International Relations
• Migration
• environmental change
• Climate change management

• Free University of Berlin, Germany

  Hans Günter Brauch

• National University of Mexico, Morelos, Mexico

  Úrsula Oswald Spring

• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  John Grin

• Cracow University of Economics, Poland

  Czeslaw Mesjasz

• University of Nairobi, Kenya

  Patricia Kameri-Mbote

• Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, New Delhi, India

  Navnita Chadha Behera

• University of Tunis-Carthage, Tunisia

  Béchir Chourou

• swisspeace, Bern, Switzerland

  Heinz Krummenacher

Policies and ethics