Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security: Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks: 5 (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, 5) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3642177751 ISBN 13: 9783642177750

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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, xi­co; first UNU-EHS chair on social vulnerability; she writes on su­stainability, de­ve­lopment, gender, disaster, poverty and colla­borates with pea­sants.

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

Czeslaw Mesjasz, Assoc. Professor, Manage­ment, Cra­cow University of Economics; he pu­blishes on sy­stems and game theo­ry, conflict resolu­tion, nego­tiation, economics, finance and security.

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

Béchir Chourou, Director, Univer­sity of Tunis-Carthage, he taught International Relations at Univer­sity of Tunis; he publishes on Euro-Me­di­terranean rela­tions, 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.

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, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642177751
• ISBN 13: 9783642177750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1920
• Editor: Brauch Hans Günter, Oswald Spring Úrsula, Mesjasz Czeslaw, Grin John, Kameri-Mbote Patricia, Chourou Béchir, Dunay Pál, Birkmann Joern