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Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security :   Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks / Brauch, H.G.;  Oswald Spring, Ú.; Mesjasz, C.; Grin, J.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; Chourou, B.;  Dunay, P.; Birkmann, J. (Eds.). Springer, 2011, 1815 p., Hardcover,  ISBN: 978-3-642-17775-0http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+toxicology/book/978-3-642-17775-0This policy-focused Global Environmental and Human Security Handbook for the Anthropo-cene (GEHSHA) addresses new security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities  and risks posed by global environmental change and disasters. In 6  forewords, 5 preface essays 95 peer reviewed chapcountries analyse in 10  parts concepts of military and political hard security and economic,  social, environmental soft security with a regional focus on the Near  East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia and on hazards in urban  centres. The major focus is on coping with global environmental change: climate change, desertifi­ca­tion, water, food and health and with hazards and strategies  on  social vulnerability and resilience building and scientific,  international, regional and national political strategies, policies and  measures including early warning of conflicts and hazards. The book  proposes a political geo-ecology and discusses a ‘Fourth Green  Revolution’ for the Anthropocene era of earth history. (copyright © Springer)