Facing Global Environmental Change Environmental, Human, Energy, Foo

The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally. Much of the information and knowledge that was created in this field during the year was the result o

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Hans Günter Brauch Úrsula Oswald Spring John Grin Czeslaw Mesjasz (Eds.)

Patricia Kameri-Mbote Navnita Chadha Behera Béchir Chourou Heinz Krummenacher

VOL 4 / HEXAGON SERIES ON HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURIT Y AND PEACE

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Facing Global Environmental Change Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts

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Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace Series Editor: Hans Günter Brauch

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Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Heinz Krummenacher (Editors)

Facing Global Environmental Change Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts With Forewords by R.K. Pachauri, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, UN Under-Secretary General; Joy Ogwu, former Foreign Minister of Nigeria, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN; Stavros Dimas, Commissioner for the Environment, European Union With Prefaces by Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD Secretariat; Sálvano Briceño, Director, Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Michael Zammit Cutajar, former Secretary General, Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; Vandana Shiva, Alternative Nobel Prize

With 249 Figures, 135 Tables and 27 Boxes

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PD Dr. phil. habil. Hans Günter Brauch, Privatdozent at the Free University Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences, member of the College of Associated Scientists and Advisors (CASA) at UNU-EHS, AFES-PRESS chairman, editor of this HEXAGON book series; address: Alte Bergsteige 47, 74821 Mosbach, Germany Prof. Dr. Úrsula Oswald Spring, Research Professor, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidiscipinarias (CRIM), National University of Mexico (UNAM), MRF Chair on Social Vulnerability at UNU-EHS; address: Priv. Río Bravo Num. 1, Col. Vistahermosa, 62290 Cuernavaca, Mor., México Prof. Dr. John Grin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Director, Amsterdam School for Social science Research, Dept. of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, OZ Achterburgwal 237, 1012 DL Amsterdam, The Netherlands Assoc. Prof. Dr. habil. Czeslaw Mesjasz, Professor, Faculty of Management, Cracow University of Economics, Pl-31-510 Kraków, ul Rakowicka 27, Poland Assoc. Prof. Dr. Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Chair, Department of Private Law, School of Law, University of Nairobi; Programme Director for Africa, International Environmental Law Research Centre, Kenya Office, PO Box 2394 KNH, 00202 Nairobi, Kenya Prof. Dr. Navnita Chadha Behera, Professor, Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Maulana Mohamed Ali Jauhar Marg, New Delhi – 110025, India Prof. Dr. Béchir Chourou, Director, University of Tunis-Carthage and Professor of International Relations, 12 Avenue 7 Novembre, 1164 Hammam-Chatt, Tu