Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security: Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks (2011) (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace #5)

By: Hans Günter Brauch and Úrsula Oswald Spring and Czeslaw Mesjasz and John Grin and Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Béchir Chourou and Pál Dunay and Joern Birkmann

Sign Up Now! Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into UK education collection to access this title. Learn about membership options, or view our freely available titles.

Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783642177767
Related ISBNs:: 9783642177750
Publisher:: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Addition:: 06/20/22
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Hans Günter Brauch
Edited by:: Úrsula Oswald Spring
Edited by:: Czeslaw Mesjasz
Edited by:: John Grin
Edited by:: Patricia Kameri-Mbote
Edited by:: Béchir Chourou
Edited by:: Pál Dunay
Edited by:: Joern Birkmann