Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security : Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks - Brauch, Hans Günter.; Oswald Spring, Úrsula.; Mesjasz, Czeslaw; Grin, John.; Kameri-Mbote, Patricia; Chourou, Béchir.; Dunay, Pál.; Birkmann, Joern; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Forewords -- Dedications -- Acknowledgements -- Prefaces -- Part I Introduction: Concepts of Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks -- Part II Securitization of Global Environmental Change -- Part III Economic, Social, Environmental Security and Human Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and in Asia,- Part IV Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks for Urban Centres in Hazards and Disasters -- Part V Coping with Global Environmental Change: Climate Change, Soil and Desertification, Water Management, Food and Health -- Part VI Coping with Hazards and Strategies for Coping with Social Vulnerability and Resilience Building,- Part VII Coping with Global Environmental Change: Scientific, International, Regional and National Political Strategies, Policies and Measures -- Part VIII A Technical Tool: Remote Sensing, Vulnerability Mapping and Indicators of Environmental Security Challenges and Risks -- Part IX Towards an Improved Early Warning of Conflicts and Hazards -- Part X Summary and Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Biographies of Contributors -- Index. .
Keywords: Ecotoxicology; Geography; Environmental economics; Political science; Geobiology; Ecotoxicology; Geography, general; Environmental Economics; Political Science; Biogeosciences