Global Environmental Change and Human Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Environmental Change and Human Security write by Richard A. Matthew. This book was released on 2009-10-09. Global Environmental Change and Human Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity. In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, which emphasizes the individual and human well-being. Viewing global environmental change through the lens of human security connects such problems as melting ice caps and carbon emissions to poverty, vulnerability, equity, and conflict. This book examines the complex social, health, and economic consequences of environmental change across the globe. In chapters that are both academically rigorous and policy relevant, the book discusses the connections of global environmental change to urban poverty, natural disasters (with a case study of Hurricane Katrina), violent conflict (with a study of the decade-long Nepalese civil war), population, gender, and development. The book makes clear the inadequacy of traditional understandings of security and shows how global environmental change is raising new, unavoidable questions of human insecurity, conflict, cooperation, and sustainable development. Contributors W. Neil Adger, Jennifer Bailey, Jon Barnett, Victoria Basolo, Hans Georg Bohle, Mike Brklacich, May Chazan, Chris Cocklin, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Indra de Soysa, Heather Goldsworthy, Betsy Hartmann, Robin M. Leichenko, Laura Little, Alexander López, Richard A. Matthew, Bryan McDonald, Eric Neumayer, Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah, Karen L. O'Brien, Marvin S. Soroos, Bishnu Raj Upreti
Globalization and Environmental Challenges
Globalization and Environmental Challenges - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization and Environmental Challenges write by Hans Günter Brauch. This book was released on 2008-01-23. Globalization and Environmental Challenges available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and concerns. In this new work on global security thinking, 91 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the worldwide reassessment of the meaning of security triggered by the end of the Cold War and globalization, as well as the multifarious impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century.
Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict
Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict write by Jürgen Scheffran. This book was released on 2012-05-26. Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a challenge for the world’s governance structures. But how severe are the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could global warming trigger a sequence of events leading to economic decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent conflict? This book brings together international experts to explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions and cooperative approaches to stabilize the climate-society interaction.
Facing Global Environmental Change
Facing Global Environmental Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing Global Environmental Change write by Hans Günter Brauch. This book was released on 2009-06-04. Facing Global Environmental Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally. Much of the information and knowledge that was created in this field during the year was the result of the findings of the Fourth - sessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which were disseminated on a large scale and reported extensively by the media. This was the result not only of a heightened interest on the part of the public on various aspects of climate change, but also because the IPCC itself proactively attempted to spread the findings of its AR4 to the public at large. The interest generated on the scientific realities of climate change was further enhanced by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and former Vice President of the US, Al Gore. By taking this decision in favour of a leader who has done a great deal to create awareness on c- mate change, and a body that assesses all scientific aspects of climate change and disseminates the result of its findings, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has clearly drawn the link between climate change and peace in the world.
Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security
Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security write by Hans Günter Brauch. This book was released on 2011-02-03. Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
