List of tables
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
6.1 Selected environmental, socioeconomic and demographic indicators
9.1 Policy prescriptions on resilience.
11.1 Adaptations observed in rural case studies in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa
12.1 Development in population and number of fishermen in the case communities from 1970 to 2008
24.1 Definitions of human security and empowerment
30.1 Social network actors and their attributes, Tartapara, Bangladesh
30.2 Social network function during wet and dry seasons, and “hothat ban” (sudden flood) scenario
32.1 Distribution of urban population, 1970–2010
32.2 Largest urban agglomerations, 2010
34.1 Summary of issues of concern
34.2 Contradicting problem definitions and perspectives prevalent in the Alpine Shire tourism sector, and components associated with their myths
35.1 Projected fast onset, slow onset and long-term hazards from projected climate change and potential associations with future population displacement and migration
-
No Comment
..................Content has been hidden....................
You can't read the all page of ebook, please click here login for view all page.