Contents
1 A changing environment for human security
KAREN O’BRIEN, LINDA SYGNA AND JOHANNA WOLF
2 Human security in the Anthropocene: the implications of earth system analysis
SIMON DALBY
JON BARNETT
4 Lines in the shifting sand: the strategic politics of climate change, human security and national defense
BETSY HARTMANN
5 Sustainable 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 BEHRENTZ AND LAURA DAWIDOWSKI
7 Uncertainty as insecurity: lessons on preparing for contingencies in Japan
OSCAR A. GÓMEZ
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
9 Social ecological resilience and human security
KATRINA BROWN
10 Climate change and the global financial crisis: stresses, synergies, and challenges for human security
ROBIN M. LEICHENKO, KAREN 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 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
ELSPETH OPPERMANN
22 The institutionalisation of vulnerable conditions and a case study from Germany
CHRISTIAN KUHLICKE
23 Disaster risk and vulnerability reduction
BEN WISNER
24 Individual and community empowerment for human security
SUSANNE C. 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 security and personal responsibilities in light of climate change defeatism and complacency
THOMAS HEYD
28 The social handprint of sustainable citizenship
BRONWYN HAYWARD
29 Disaster risk reduction informing climate change adaptation: social capital in Agüita de la Perdiz
PAULINA ALDUNCE, VIRGINIA LEVÍN AND ALEJANDRO LEÓN
30 Social network actors and novel information for adaptive capacity
FIONA J.Y. ROTBERG
Integration of knowledge and action
31 Understanding how to respond to climate change in a context of transformational change: the contribution of sustainable adaptation
SIRI ERIKSEN
32 Sustainability and cities: meeting the grand challenge for the twenty-first century
PETER J. MARCOTULLIO AND WILLIAM D. 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
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
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