عنوان

Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security :

9783642177750

انگلیسی

Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security :

threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks /

Hans Gunter Brauch ... [et al.], editors ; with forewords by Achim Steiner ... [et al.] ; with preface essays by Paul C. Crutzen ... [et al.].

[Berlin] :

Berghof Foundation,

c2011.

li, 1815 p. :

ill., maps ;

28 cm.

Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace,

v. 5

1865-5793 ;

"With 184 figures, 78 tables and 38 boxes."

Handbook.

Reference work.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1521- 1709) and index.

Securitization of global environmental change -- Economic, social, environmental security and human threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia -- Threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks for urban centres in hazards and disasters -- Coping with global environmental changes : climate change, soil and desertification, water management, food and health -- Climate change -- Soil and desertification -- Water management -- Coping with food security issues -- Coping with health security issues -- Coping with hazards and strategies for coping with social vulnerability and resilience building -- Coping with global environmental change : scientific, international , regional and national political strategies, policies and measures -- Scientific research goals and strategies for coping with global environmental change -- Global strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change -- Regional strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change -- National strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change -- A technical tool : remote sensing, vulnerability mapping and indicators of environmental security challenges and risks -- Towards an improved early warning of conflicts and hazards.

Global environmental change.

Brauch, Hans Gunter,1947-

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