Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security
Subtitle: threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks
By: Hans Günter Brauch ... [et al.], editors ; with forewords by Achim Steiner ... [et al.] ; with preface essays by Paul C. Crutzen ... [et al.].
Series: Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace -- v. 5; Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace -- v. 5.
Publisher: Springer; Berghof Foundation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin; New York; [Berlin]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1815
ISBN-13: 9783642177750; 9783642177767
Subjects: Global environmental change
Notes: "With 184 figures, 78 tables and 38 boxes."

Handbook.

Reference work.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1521- 1709) and index.
Table of contents: title: Securitization of global environmental change; title: Economic, social, environmental security and human threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia; title: Threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks for urban centres in hazards and disasters; title: Coping with global environmental changes : climate change, soil and desertification, water management, food and health; title: Climate change; title: Soil and desertification; title: Water management; title: Coping with  food security issues; title: Coping with health security issues; title: Coping with hazards and strategies for coping with social vulnerability and resilience building; title: Coping with global environmental change : scientific, international , regional and national political strategies, policies and measures; title: Scientific research goals and strategies for coping with global environmental change; title: Global strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change; title: Regional strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change; title: National strategies, policies and measures for coping with climate change; title: A technical tool : remote sensing, vulnerability mapping and indicators of environmental security challenges and risks; title: Towards an improved early warning of conflicts and hazards.