Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security : Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Series: | Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace,
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Table of Contents:
- 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. .