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9780262513081

Global Environmental Change and Human Security

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262513081

  • ISBN10:

    0262513080

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-12-31
  • Publisher: Mit Pr

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Summary

In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, which emphasizes the individual and human well-being. Viewing global environmental change through the lens of human security connects such problems as melting ice caps and carbon emissions to poverty, vulnerability, equity, and conflict. This book examines the complex social, health, and economic consequences of environmental change across the globe. In chapters that are both academically rigorous and policy relevant, the book discusses the connections of global environmental change to urban poverty, natural disasters (with a case study of Hurricane Katrina), violent conflict (with a study of the decade-long Nepalese civil war), population, gender, and development. The book makes clear the inadequacy of traditional understandings of security and shows how global environmental change is raising new, unavoidable questions of human insecurity, conflict, cooperation, and sustainable development. Contributors:W. Neil Adger, Jennifer Bailey, Jon Barnett, Victoria Basolo, Hans Georg Bohle, Mike Brklacich, May Chazan, Chris Cocklin, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Indra de Soysa, Heather Goldsworthy, Betsy Hartmann, Robin M. Leichenko, Laura Little, Alexander Lopez, Richard A. Matthew, Bryan McDonald, Eric Neumayer, Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah, Karen L. O'Brien, Marvin S. Soroos, Bishnu Raj Upreti

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introduction
Global Environmental Change and Human Securityp. 3
An Introduction
Global Environmental Change and Human Insecurity
Human Security, Vulnerability, and Global Environmental Changep. 35
Global Health and Human Securityp. 53
Addressing Impacts from Globalization and Environmental Change
The Vulnerability of Urban Slum Dwellers to Global Environmental Changep. 77
Environmental Change, Disasters, and Vulnerabilityp. 97
The Case of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Global Environmental Change, Conflict, and Cooperation
Environmental Change, Human Security, and Violent Conflictp. 119
Environmental Change and Human Security in Nepalp. 137
Human Security and Sustainable Development
Global Environmental Change, Equity, and Human Securityp. 157
Approaches to Enhancing Human Securityp. 177
Rethinking the Role of Population in Human Securityp. 193
Women, Global Environmental Change, and Human Securityp. 215
Human Security as a Prerequisite for Developmentp. 237
Free to Squander?p. 261
Democracy and Sustainable Development, 1975-2000
Environmental Transborder Cooperation in Latin Americap. 291
Challenges to the Westphalia Order
Conclusion
Charting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Change and Human Security Researchp. 307
List of Contributorsp. 317
Indexp. 323
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