A Changing Environment for Human Security
Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action
1st Edition
Published on 26. June 2013
496 pages
978-1-136-27249-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
39 s/w Abbildungen, 12 s/w Tabellen
12 Tables, black and white; 39 Illustrations, black and white
File size
10,13 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-27249-3 (9781136272493)
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Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action
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1st Edition
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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 Ostby 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. Luedeke 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 Storbjoerk and Johan Hedren 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. Guimaraes 18. From poverty to prosperity: Addressing growth, equity and ethics in a changing environment Asuncion 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 Agueita de la Perdiz Paulina Aldunce, Virginia Levin, Alejandro Leon 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
