A Changing Environment for Human Security

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 Østby 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. Ludeke 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 Storbjork 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. Guimarães 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 Aguita 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