Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security : threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks

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Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security : threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks

Hans Günter Brauch ... [et al.] (editors) ; with forewords by Achim Steiner ... [et al.] ; with preface essays by Paul C. Crutzen ... [et al.]

(Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace / series editor, Hans Günter Brauch, v. 5)

Springer, c2011

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Bibliography: p. [1521]-1709

Includes index

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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.

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Forewords.- Dedications.- Acknowledgements.- Prefaces.- Part I Introduction: Concepts of Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks.- Part II Securitization of Global Environmental Change.- Part III Economic, Social, Environmental Security and Human Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and in Asia,- Part IV Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks for Urban Centres in Hazards and Disasters.- Part V Coping with Global Environmental Change: Climate Change, Soil and Desertification, Water Management, Food and Health.- Part VI Coping with Hazards and Strategies for Coping with Social Vulnerability and Resilience Building,- Part VII Coping with Global Environmental Change: Scientific, International, Regional and National Political Strategies, Policies and Measures.- Part VIII A Technical Tool: Remote Sensing, Vulnerability Mapping and Indicators of Environmental Security Challenges and Risks.- Part IX Towards an Improved Early Warning of Conflicts and Hazards.- Part X Summary and Conclusions.- Abbreviations.- Bibliography.- Biographies of Contributors.- Index.

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