A Changing Environment for Human Security

Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action
Herausgeber: Sygna, Linda; Wolf, Johanna; O'Brien, Karen

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Produktbeschreibung

This agenda-setting book provides readers with a clear understanding of why responses to issues such as climate change, land use change, and biodiversity loss matter to present generations, and which types of responses are likely to create an equitable and sustainable life for future generations. Fresh perspectives on global environmental change from an interdisciplinary group of international experts will inspire readers - whether students, policy makers, or practitioners - to think differently about environmental issues and sustainable development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781849713023
• ISBN-10: 1849713022
• Artikelnr.: 37632398

Autorenporträt

Linda Sygna is a Project Leader at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway. Karen O'Brien is a Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway. Johanna Wolf is an Associate Faculty Member at Royal Roads University, Canada, and Visiting Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Changine Environment for Human Security Karen O'Brien Johanna Wolf and
Linda Sygna Part 1: Reality Check 2. Human Security in the Anthropocene:
The Implications of Earth System Analysis Simon Dalby 3. Climate Change and
Security Jon Barnett 4. Lines in the shifting sand: The strategic politics
of climate change, human security and nation defence Betsy Hartmann 5.
Sustainable cities: Urbanization and human security Halvard Buhaug, Henrik
Urdal and Gudrun Østby 6. Urban risk and vulnerability: insights and
lessons from Latin American cities Patricia Romero Lankao, Mercy Cordova
Borbor, Eduardo Behrenz and Laura Dawidowski 7. Uncertainty and insecurity:
Lessons on preparing for contingencies in Japan Oscar A. Gomez S. 8. 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 9. Social ecological resilience
and human security Katrina Brown 10. Double exposure - New opportunities
for human security Robin M. Leichenko, Karen L. O'Brien and William D.
Solecki 11. National level policies versus local level realities - can the
two be reconciled to promote sustainable adaptation? Katharine Vincent,
Lars Otto Naess and Marisa Goulden 12. Fisheries, resource management and
climate change: Local perspectives of change in coastal communities in
Northern Norway Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jennifer West and Halvor Dannevig 13.
Stuck in the twilight-zone or moving towards sustainable climate
adaptation? Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Coastby Sofie Storbjörk
and Johan Hedrén 14. The rights of internally displaced persons in
connection with natural hazard-related disasters Vikram Kolmannskog 15.
Cities, human security and global environmental change David Simon and
Hayley Leck 16. Suburbia on fire: Human security, climate change, and
emergency management Jason Flanagan and John Handmer 17. Ethics,
Environmental change and human security Roberto P. Guimarães 18. From
poverty to prosperity: Addressing growth, equity and ethics in a changing
environment Asunción Lera St.Clair and Victoria Lawson 19. UN-REDD and the
global discourse on climate change and poverty Desmond McNeill 20. Climate
change adaptation: Challenging the mainstream Philip Ireland and Peter
Keegan 21. Why the discursive environment matters: the UK Climate Impacts
Programme and adaptation to climate change in the UK Elspeth Oppermann 22.
The institutionalisation of vulnerable conditions - A new agenda for
vulnerability research Christian Kuhlicke 23. Disaster risk and
vulnerability reduction Ben Wisner 24. Individual and community empowerment
for human security Susanne Moser 25. Community empowerment: opportunities
and challenges for Bolivia's water sector Paola Ramallo and Elena
Ostrovskaya 26. Human environmental integration and social power in global
environmental change research David Manuel-Navarrete 27. Human
environmental integration and social power in global environmental change
research David Manuel-Navarrete 28. From carbon footprints to social
handprints: The new politics of sustainability Bronwyn Hayward 29. Disaster
risk reduction informing climate change adaptation: social capital in
Agüita de la Perdiz Paulina Aldunce, Virginia Levín, Alejandro León 30.
Social network actors and novel information for adaptive capacity Fiona
J.Y. Rotberg 31. Responding sustainably to climate change: the need for a
political approach Siri Eriksen 32. Sustainability and cities: Meeting the
grand challenge for the 21st Century Peter J. Marcotullio and William
Solecki 33.A tetra-transition away from fossil fuels Svein Jarle Horn 34.
Uncovering the essence of the climate change adaptation agenda: The policy
sciences as a problem-oriented approach Carolina E. Adler and Amanda H.
Lynch 35. Changing places: Migration and adaptation to climate change
Helen Adams and W. Neil Adger 36. Clumsy solutions to environmental change:
Lessons from cultural theory Michael Thompson Part 3: Transformations: Past
and Future 37. '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 38. The Future is Now: Human
Security as a Choice Johanna Wolf, Karen O'Brien and Linda Sygna