ABSTRACT
Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change. This timely book will inspire new ways of understanding the relationship between environmental change and human security. A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action both supports and informs a call for new, transformative approaches to research, policy and action. The chapters in this book include critical analyses, case studies and reflections on contemporary environmental and social challenges, with a strong emphasis on those related to climate change. Human thoughts and actions have contributed to an environment of insecurity, manifested as multiple interacting threats that now represent a serious challenge to humanity. Yet humans also have the capacity to collectively transform the economic, political, social and cultural systems and structures that perpetuate human insecurities.
These fresh perspectives on global environmental change from an interdisciplinary group of international experts will inspire readers – whether students, researchers, policy makers, or practitioners – to think differently about environmental issues and sustainability. The contributions show that in a changing environment, human security is not only a possibility, but a choice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|80 pages
Reality check
chapter 4|10 pages
Lines in the shifting sand
chapter 8|14 pages
Human security at risk
part 2|328 pages
Breakthrough conditions
part 2|96 pages
Perspectives
chapter 10|9 pages
Climate change and the global financial crisis
chapter 12|12 pages
Fisheries, resource management and climate change
chapter 13|10 pages
Stuck in the twilight zone or moving towards sustainable climate adaptation?
part 2|75 pages
Paradigms
chapter 18|13 pages
From poverty to prosperity
chapter 21|14 pages
Why the discursive environment matters
part 2|83 pages
Empowerment
chapter 29|12 pages
Disaster risk reduction informing climate change adaptation
part 2|72 pages
Integration of knowledge and action
chapter 31|12 pages
Understanding how to respond to climate change in a context of transformational change
chapter 32|17 pages
Sustainability and cities
chapter 34|11 pages
Uncovering the essence of the climate change adaptation agenda
part 3|26 pages
Transformations: past and future