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Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Forewords ; Part I Introduction ; 1 Introduction ; Part II Climate Change, Human Security, Societal Stability, and Violent Conflict: Empirical and Theoretical Linkages ; 2 On Environmental Change and Armed Conflict ; 3 Climate Change, Societal Stability, and the SID Project ; 4 Climate Change, Conflict, and Fragility: Getting the Institutions Right ; 5 Theories and Models of Climate-Security Interaction: Framework and Application to a Climate Hot Spot in North Africa ; 6 Global Climate Policy Reinforces Local Social Path-Dependent Structures: More Conflict in the World? ; Part III Climate Change and the Securitization Discourse ; 7 Climate Change and the Environmental Conflict Discourse ; 8 Climate Change as a Driver of Security Policy ; 9 From "Securitization" of Climate Change to "Climatization" of the Security Field: Comparing Three Theoretical Perspectives ; 10 Critical Deconstruction of Environmental Security and Human Security Concepts in the Anthropocene ; 11 Political in Nature: The Conflict-fuelling Character of International Climate Policies ; 12 Security as a Weapon: How Cataclysm Discourses Frame International Climate Negotiations ; 13 Audience: A Weak Link in the Securitization of the Environment? ; 14 Words, Visuals, and the Vanished Enemy: Visual Securitization and the COP15 Opening Film ; Part IV Climate Change and Migration ; 15 Climate Change and Human Migration: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees ; 16 "Climate Refugees" as Dawning Catastrophe? A Critique of the Dominant ; Quest for Numbers ; 17 Environmentally-Forced Migration in Rural Areas: Security Risks and Threats in Mexico ; 18 Policing Borders in a Time of Rapid Climate Change ; Part V Climate Change and Security in the Middle East ; 19 Climate Change on the Arabian Peninsula - Regional Security,Sustainability Strategies, and Research Needs ; 20 Environmental Degradation, Climate Uncertainties, and HumanVulnerabilities: Realm of Possible Actions toward a Shifting Security Paradigm in the Arab Gulf Monarchies ; 21 Altering Security Dynamics? Climate Change Impacts on Iraq ; 22 Nothing New in the Middle East - Reality and Discourses of Climate Change in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ; Part VI Climate Change and Security in Africa ; 23 Locating Climate Insecurity: Where Are the Most Vulnerable Places in Africa? ; 24 Climate Change, Resource Competition, and Conflict amongst Pastoral Communities in Kenya ; 25 Climate Change and Violent Conflicts in Nigeria: Human Needs and Relative Deprivation Theories ; 26 Enhancing Security and Resilience of Low-Income Communities to Climate Change in Growing Cities: An Assessment of Flood Management and Planning Regimes in Kampala City, Uganda ; 27 Malnutrition and Conflict in Eastern Africa: Impacts of Resource Variability on Human Security ; Part VII Climate Change and Security in Asia and the Pacific ; 28 Climate Awareness and Adaptation Efficacy for Livelihood Security against Sea Level Rise in Coastal Bangladesh ; 29 Security Implications of Climate Refugees in Urban Slums: A Case Study from Dhaka, Bangladesh ; 30 A Psychological Perspective on Climate Stress in Coastal India ; 31 Routine Violence in Java, Indonesia: Neo-Malthusian and Social Justice Perspectives ; 32 Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty: Climate Change and Security in the Pacific and Beyond ; Part VIII Improving Climate Security: Cooperative Policies and Capacity-Building ; 33 Securitization of Climate Change in the United Nations 2007-2010 ; 34 Climate Change, Peacekeeping, and Perspectives for UN Reform ; 35 International Climate Change Policies: The Potential Relevance of REDD+ For Peace and Stability ; 36 The Role of Information Systems in Improving Resilience and Security through Innovation-Oriented Capacity Building ; 37 Policy Responses to Climate Change in the Mediterranean and MENA Region during the Anthropocene ; Part IX Conclusions and Outlook ; 38 Conclusions and Outlook: Research Results and Research Needs

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Prefaces ; Part 1 - Introduction: Concepts of Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks ; Part 2 - Securitization of Global Environmental Change ; Part 3 - Economic, Social, Environmental Security and Human Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and in Asia ; Part 4 - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks for Urban Centres in Hazards and Disasters ; Part 5 - Coping with Global Environmental Change: Climate Change, Soil and Desertification, Water Management, Food and Health ; Part 6 - Coping with Hazards and Strategies for Coping with Social Vulnerability and Resilience Building ; Part 7 - Coping with Global Environmental Change: Scientific, International, Regional and National Political Strategies, Policies and Measures ; Part 8 - A Technical Tool: Remote Sensing, Vulnerability Mapping and Indicators of Environmental Security Challenges and Risks ; Part 9 - Towards an Improved Early Warning of Conflicts and Hazards ; Part 10 - Summary and Conclusions