Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security : Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks /

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Brauch, Hans Günter. (Editor ), Oswald Spring, Úrsula. (Editor ), Mesjasz, Czeslaw. (Editor ), Grin, John. (Editor ), Kameri-Mbote, Patricia. (Editor ), Chourou, Béchir. (Editor ), Dunay, Pál. (Editor ), Birkmann, Joern. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, 5
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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. .