Environmental change and human security : recognizing and acting on hazard impacts: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts; Newport, Rhode Island; 4-7 June 2007

The book is written in an accessible style to discuss the concept of securityfrom both subjective and objective perspectives. Specifically it uses separate approaches beginning with conceptual methods to understanding the intersections of risk, uncertainty, and environmental challenges—as well as the challenges to measuring human security and is followed by region-specific challenges for environmental and human security in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. Additionally, case studies are included which relate to human security, and which range from examinations of urban challenges, security and sustainability, lost opportunities for human security, and environmental justice and health disparities. Compiles the most up-to-date review on human and environmental security and their linkages Provides a provocative discussion on a newly emerging concept which seeks to link environmental condition to an evolving definition of security Explores likely impacts of environmental change and hazards on social, economical, and political dimensions of human society INDICE: From the contents Preface - Environmental and Human Security: Thenand Now. Acknowledgements. Introduction.- I: Approaches to Environmental and Human Security.- II: Environmental Challenges: Examples from North Africa, theBalkans, and the Middle East.- III: Human Challenges: Case Studies.-IV: Acting on Hazard Impacts: Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.- V: Environmental Change and Human Impact Linkages. Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations for Policy and Research.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-8550-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 500
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés