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Title Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security : threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks / Hans Günter Brauch [and others] (editors) ; with forewords by Achim Steiner [and others] ; with preface essays by Paul C. Crutzen [and others]
Published Berlin : Springer ; [Place of publication not identified] : Berghof Foundation, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (li, 1815 pages) : illustrations
Series Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace, 1865-5793 ; v. 5
Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace ; v. 5. 1865-5793
Contents pt. 1. Concepts of security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks -- pt. 2. Securitization of global environmental change -- pt. 3. Economic, social, environmental security and human threats, challenges, vulnerabilites and risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and in Asia -- pt. 4. Threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks for urban centres in hazards and disasters -- pt. 5. Coping with global environmental change : climate change, soil and desertification, water management, food and health
pt. 6. Coping with hazards and strategies for coping with social vulnerability and resilience building -- pt. 7. Coping with global environmental change : scientific, international, regional and national political strategies, policies and measures -- pt. 8. A technical tool : remote sensing, vulnerability mapping and indicators of environmental security challenges and risks -- pt. 9. Towards an improved early warning of conflicts and hazards
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Climatic changes -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Human security -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Climat.
Environnement.
Climatic changes
Climatic changes -- Government policy
Human security
Genre/Form manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Brauch, Hans Günter, 1947-
LC no. 2011920818
ISBN 9783642177767
364217776X
9783642177750
3642177751