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Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security: Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks

by Hans Günter Brauch
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783662517994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 1818
  • Original Price: EUR 549.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Softcover Repri
  • Item Weight: 5139 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Environmental Science, Earth Sciences / Geology, and Earth Sciences / Geography

From the Back Cover
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, desertifi-ca-tion, 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.

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, xi-co; first UNU-EHS chair on social vulnerability; she writes on su-stainability, de-ve-lopment, gender, disaster, poverty and colla-borates with pea-sants.

John Grin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam; he publishes on societal transformations in water ma-na-gement, agriculture and health care, and advices practitioners.

Czeslaw Mesjasz, Assoc. Professor, Manage-ment, Cra-cow University of Economics; he pu-blishes on sy-stems and game theo-ry, conflict resolu-tion, nego-tiation, economics, finance and security.

Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Professor, Strathmore University; Programme Director, International Environ-men-tal Law Research Centre, Nairobi; she writes on law, development, property, environment and gender.

Béchir Chourou, Director, Univer-sity of Tunis-Carthage, he taught International Relations at Univer-sity of Tunis; he publishes on Euro-Me-di-terranean rela-tions, 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.

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