Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security : Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks PDF
Edited by Hans Gunter Brauch, Ursula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Bechir Chourou, Pal Dunay, Joern Birkmann
Part of the Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace series
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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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- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:03/02/2011
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:03/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9783642177767
