Title: Environmental change and globalization : double exposures /
Authors: Leichenko, Robin M.; O'Brien, Karen L.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Global environmental change; Globalization.
Abstract: "Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures explores the connections between two of the most transformative processes of the twenty-first century: global environmental change and globalization. In the book, Leichenko and O'Brien present a conceptual framework for analyzing the interactions between these two processes, and they illustrate, through case studies, how these interactions create situations of "double exposure.""--Jacket.
Contents: Global change discourses -- Double exposure : a conceptual framework -- Pathways of double exposure -- Uneven outcomes and growing inequalities -- Changing contexts and emerging vulnerabilities -- Dynamic feedbacks and accelerating changes -- Human security in an era of global change.