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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Brauch, Hans Günter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Oswald Spring, Úrsula (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mesjasz, Czeslaw (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Grin, John (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kameri-Mbote, Patricia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Chourou, Béchir (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Dunay, Pál (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Birkmann, Jörn (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Σειρά: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, 5
• Θέματα: Environment.; Political science.; Geobiology.; Geography.; Ecotoxicology.; Environmental economics.; Geography, general.; Environmental Economics.; Political Science.; Biogeosciences.

 This policy-focused Global Environmental and Human Security Handbook for the Anthropo-cene (GEHSHA) addresses new security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks posed by global environmental change and disasters. In 6 forewords, 5 preface essays 95 peer reviewed chapcountries analyse in 10...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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. .