Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security :

Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security : threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks / Hans Günter Brauch ... [et al.], editors ; with forewords by Achim Steiner ... [et al.] ; with preface essays by Paul C. Crutzen ... [et al.]. - Berlin Nueva York Springer c2011. - 1815 p il., mapas 28 cm. - Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace. v .

184 figuras, 78 tablas y 38 cuadros Handbook.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 1521- 1709) e índice.

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

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Global environmental change

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