threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks Brauch, Hans Günter 1947 - ed Oswald Spring, Ursula ed text gw Berlin Nueva York Springer c2011 monographic spa eng 1815 p il., mapas 28 cm. 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. specialized Hans Günter Brauch ... [et al.], editors ; with forewords by Achim Steiner ... [et al.] ; with preface essays by Paul C. Crutzen ... [et al.]. 184 figuras, 78 tablas y 38 cuadros Handbook. Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 1521- 1709) e índice. Global environmental change 363.7 C78c 9783642177767 140115 20141118102703.0