Global environmental change and human security /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Description:x, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7887819
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Other authors / contributors:Matthew, Richard A., 1959-
ISBN:9780262013406 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262013401 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262513081 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262513080 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Global Environmental Change and Human Security: An Introduction
  • II. Global Environmental Change and Human Insecurity
  • 2. Human Security, Vulnerability, and Global Environmental Change
  • 3. Global Health and Human Security: Addressing Impacts from Globalization and Environmental Change
  • 4. The Vulnerability of Urban Slum Dwellers to Global Environmental Change
  • 5. Environmental Change, Disasters, and Vulnerability: The Case of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
  • III. Global Environmental Change, Conflict, and Cooperation
  • 6. Environmental Change, Human Security, and Violent Conflict
  • 7. Environmental Change and Human Security in Nepal
  • IV. Human Security and Sustainable Development
  • 8. Global Environmental Change, Equity, and Human Security
  • 9. Approaches to Enhancing Human Security
  • 10. Rethinking the Role of Population in Human Security
  • 11. Women, Global Environmental Change, and Human Security
  • 12. Human Security as a Prerequisite for Development
  • 13. Free to Squander? Democracy and Sustainable Development, 1975-2000
  • o14. Environmental Transborder Cooperation in Latin America: Challenges to the Westphalia Order
  • V. Conclusion
  • 15. Charting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Change and Human Security Research
  • List of Contributors
  • Index