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A changing environment for human security : transformative approaches to research, policy and action
Title
A changing environment for human security : transformative approaches to research, policy and action / edited by Karen O'Brien, Johanna Wolf and Linda Sygna.
ISBN
0203109880 (electronic bk.)
9780203109885 (electronic bk.)
1849713014
1849713022
9781849713016
9781849713023
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 469 pages : : illustrations, maps.)
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Summary
"Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change. This timely book will inspire new ways of understanding the relationship between environmental change and human security. A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action both supports and informs a call for new, transformative approaches to research, policy and action. The chapters in this book include critical analyses, case studies and reflections on contemporary environmental and social challenges, with a strong emphasis on those related to climate change. Human thoughts and actions have contributed to an environment of insecurity, manifested as multiple interacting threats that now represent a serious challenge to humanity. Yet humans also have the capacity to collectively transform the economic, political, social and cultural systems and structures that perpetuate human insecurities. These fresh perspectives on global environmental change from an interdisciplinary group of international experts will inspire readers - whether students, researchers, policy makers, or practitioners - to think differently about environmental issues and sustainability. The contributions show that in a changing environment, human security is not only a possibility, but a choice."--Publisher's website.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A Changine Environment for Human Security / Karen O'Brien Johanna Wolf and Linda Sygna.
Part 1: Reality Check. Human Security in the Anthropocene: The Implications of Earth System Analysis / Simon Dalby ; Climate Change and Security / Jon Barnett ; Lines in the shifting sand: The strategic politics of climate change, human security and nation defence / Betsy Hartmann ; Sustainable cities: Urbanization and human security / Halvard Buhaug, Henrik Urdal and Gudrun Østby ; Urban risk and vulnerability: insights and lessons from Latin American cities / Patricia Romero Lankao, Mercy Cordova Borbor, Eduardo Behrenz and Laura Dawidowski ; Uncertainty and insecurity: Lessons on preparing for contingencies in Japan / Oscar A. Gomez S. ; Human security at risk: development impacts of global environmental change in drylands / Paul L. Lucas, Marcel T.J. Kok, Henk B.M. Hilderink and Matthias K.B. Lüdeke.
Part 2: Breakthrough Conditions. Social ecological resilience and human security / Katrina Brown ; Double exposure
New opportunities for human security / Robin M. Leichenko, Karen L. O'Brien and William D. Solecki ; National level policies versus local level realities
can the two be reconciled to promote sustainable adaptation? / Katharine Vincent, Lars Otto Naess and Marisa Goulden ; Fisheries, resource management and climate change: Local perspectives of change in coastal communities in Northern Norway / Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jennifer West and Halvor Dannevig ; Stuck in the twilight-zone or moving towards sustainable climate adaptation? Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Coastby / Sofie Storbjörk and Johan Hedrén ; The rights of internally displaced persons in connection with natural hazard-related disasters / Vikram Kolmannskog ; Cities, human security and global environmental change / David Simon and Hayley Leck ; Suburbia on fire: Human security, climate change, and emergency management / Jason Flanagan and John Handmer ; Ethics, Environmental change and human security / Roberto P. Guimarães ; From poverty to prosperity: Addressing growth, equity and ethics in a changing environment / Asunción Lera St. Clair and Victoria Lawson ; UN-REDD and the global discourse on climate change and poverty / Desmond McNeill ; Climate change adaptation: Challenging the mainstream / Philip Ireland and Peter Keegan ; Why the discursive environment matters: the UK Climate Impacts Programme and adaptation to climate change in the UK / Elspeth Oppermann ; The institutionalisation of vulnerable conditions
A new agenda for vulnerability research / Christian Kuhlicke ; Disaster risk and vulnerability reduction / Ben Wisner ; Individual and community empowerment for human security / Susanne Moser ; Community empowerment: opportunities and challenges for Bolivia's water sector / Paola Ramallo and Elena Ostrovskaya ; Human environmental integration and social power in global environmental change research / David Manuel-Navarrete ; Human environmental integration and social power in global environmental change research / David Manuel-Navarrete ; From carbon footprints to social handprints: The new politics of sustainability / Bronwyn Hayward ; Disaster risk reduction informing climate change adaptation: social capital in Agüita de la Perdiz / Paulina Aldunce, Virginia Levín, Alejandro León ; Social network actors and novel information for adaptive capacity / Fiona J.Y. Rotberg ; Responding sustainably to climate change: the need for a political approach / Siri Eriksen ; Sustainability and cities: Meeting the grand challenge for the 21st Century / Peter J. Marcotullio and William Solecki ; A tetra-transition away from fossil fuels / Svein Jarle Horn ; Uncovering the essence of the climate change adaptation agenda: The policy sciences as a problem-oriented approach / Carolina E. Adler and Amanda H. Lynch ; Changing places: Migration and adaptation to climate change / Helen Adams and W. Neil Adger ; Clumsy solutions to environmental change: Lessons from cultural theory / Michael Thompson.
Part 3: Transformations: Past and Future. 'Clumsy solutions' and 'Elegant failures': Lessons on climate change adaptation from the settlement of the North Atlantic islands / Andrew J. Dugmore, Thomas H. McGovern, Richard Streeter, Christian Koch Madsen, Konrad Smiarowski and Christian Keller ; The Future is Now: Human Security as a Choice / Johanna Wolf, Karen O'Brien and Linda Sygna.
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