Part I: Reality check
by Johanna Wolf, Karen O'Brien, Linda Sygna
A Changing Environment for Human Security
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1. A changing environment for human security
- Part I: Reality check
- 2. Human security in the Anthropocene: the implications of earth system analysis
- 3. Climate change and security
- 4. Lines in the shifting sand: the strategic politics of climate change, human security and national defense
- 5. Sustainable urbanization and human security
- 6. Urban risk and vulnerability: insights and lessons from Latin American cities
- 7. Uncertainty as insecurity: lessons on preparing for contingencies in Japan
- 8. Human security at risk: development impacts of global environmental change in drylands
- Part II: Breakthrough conditions
- Perspectives
- 9. Social ecological resilience and human security
- 10. Climate change and the global financial crisis: stresses, synergies, and challenges for human security
- 11. National level policies versus local level realities – can the two be reconciled to promote sustainable adaptation?
- 12. Fisheries, resource management and climate change: local perspectives of change in coastal communities in Northern Norway
- 13. Stuck in the twilight zone or moving towards sustainable climate adaptation? Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Coastby
- 14. The rights of internally displaced persons in connection with natural hazard-related disasters
- 15. Cities, human security and global environmental change
- 16. Suburbia on fire: human security, climate change and emergency management
- 17. Ethics, environmental change and human security
- Introduction: sustainable development, from oxymoron to paradigm shift
- Environmental change as an ethical challenge
- Human security as a public good, the policy crossroads of ethics and global environmental change
- Concluding remarks: ethics and human security in the context of global environmental change
- References
- Paradigms
- 18. From poverty to prosperity: addressing growth, equity and ethics in a changing environment
- 19. REDD+ and the global discourse on climate change and poverty
- 20. Climate change adaptation: challenging the mainstream
- 21. Why the discursive environment matters: the UK Climate Impacts Programme and adaptation to climate change
- 22. The institutionalisation of vulnerable conditions and a case study from Germany
- 23. Disaster risk and vulnerability reduction
- Empowerment
- 24. Individual and community empowerment for human security
- 25. Community empowerment: opportunities and challenges for Bolivia’s water sector
- 26. Human-environmental integration and social power in global environmental change research
- 27. Human security and personal responsibilities in light of climate change defeatism and complacency
- 28. The social handprint of sustainable citizenship
- 29. Disaster risk reduction informing climate change adaptation: social capital in Agüita de la Perdiz
- 30. Social network actors and novel information for adaptive capacity
- Integration of knowledge and action
- 31. Understanding how to respond to climate change in a context of transformational change: the contribution of sustainable adaptation
- 32. Sustainability and cities: meeting the grand challenge for the twenty-first century
- 33. A tetra-transition away from fossil fuels
- 34. Uncovering the essence of the climate change adaptation agenda: the policy sciences as a problem-oriented approach
- 35. Changing places: migration and adaptation to climate change
- 36. Clumsy solutions to environmental change: lessons from cultural theory
- Perspectives
- Part III: Transformations: past and future
- Index
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