Overview
- 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
- Contributes both a multi-disciplinary and multi-lateral perspective to the issue of security by combining the talents and experience of physical and social scientists
- Includes case studies and examples from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and North America
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Table of contents (21 papers)
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Approaches to Environmental and Human Security
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Environmental Challenges: Examples From North Africa, The Balkans, and The Middle East
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Acting on Hazard Impacts: Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts
Editors: P. H. Liotta, David A. Mouat, William G. Kepner, Judith M. Lancaster
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8551-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8549-9Published: 07 August 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8550-5Published: 08 August 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8551-2Published: 31 July 2008
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 478
Topics: Pollution, general, Environment, general, Social Sciences, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional/Spatial Science, Human Geography