Handbook on climate change and human security
By: edited by Michael R. Redclift, Emeritus Professor of International Environmental Policy, King's College, University of London, UK, Marco Grasso, Senior Lecturer of International Environmental Policy, Università degli Studi di Milano-Biocca, Italy
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780857939104; 9780857939111
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Climatic changes; Government policy; Risk assessment; Risk management; Human security; Klimaänderung; Klimaschutz
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I FRAMING THE ISSUE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN SECURITY.; title: Climate change as an issue of human security  -- Simon Dalby; title: Elements and value-added of a human security approach in the study of climate change  -- Des Gasper; title: The IPCC, human security, and the climate-conflict nexus  -- Nils Petter Gleditsch; title: Space, time and scales of human security in climate change  -- Richard Matthew. -- Part II THE DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN SECURITY IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE CONTEXT.; title: The environmental determinants of human security in the context of climate change  -- David Simon; title: The social dimensions of human security under a changing climate  -- Elise Remling; title: Vulnerability does not just fall from the sky: toward multi-scale pro-poor climate policy  -- Jesse Ribot; title: Disasters and human security: natural hazards and political instability in Haiti and the Dominican Republic -- Christian D. Klose.; title: Part III A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN SECURITY.; title: The impact of climate change on human security in Latin America and the Caribbean  -- J. Timmons Roberts; title: Human security and climate change in the Mediterranean region  -- Giuseppe Feola; title: Climate change and human security in the Arctic  -- Mark Nuttall; title: Climate change and human security in Africa  -- Elizabeth E. Watson. -- Part IV RESPONSES TO THE THREATS POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE TO HUMAN SECURITY.; title: Climate change and human security: the individual and community response  -- C. Michael Hall; title: Climate change, human security and the built environment  -- Emma Hinton; title: Climate change and human security: the international governance architectures, policies and instruments  -- Michael Mason; title: A human rights-based approach from strengthening human security against climate change -- Steve Vanderheiden.