Environmental change and human security : recognizing and acting on hazard impacts

Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Environmental and Human Security: Then and Now; A.D. Hecht and P. H. Liotta.- Acknowledgements. Introduction; P.H. Liotta.- I: Approaches to Environmental and Human Security. Zombie Concepts and Boomerang Effects: Uncertainty, Risk, and Security Intersection through the Lens of Environmental Change; P.H. Liotta and A.W. Shearer.- Measuring Human Security: Methodological Challenges and the Importance of Geographically Referenced Determinants; T. Owen.- II: Environmental Challenges: Examples from North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. Drylands in Crisis: Environmental Change and Human Response; D. Mouat and J. Lancaster.- Desertification in Jordan: A Security Issue; Mu'taz Al-Alawi.- Global Environmental Change and the International Efforts Concerning Environmental Conservation; Liviu-Daniel Galatchi.- Management of Environmental Challenges and Sustainability of Bulgarian Agriculture; H. Bachev.- Regional Assessment of Landscape and Land Use Change in the Mediterranean Region: Morocco Case Study (1981-2003); M.S. Nash et al.- III: Human Challenges: Case Studies. Human Security for an Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Perspectives; R.J. Lawson et al.- Urbanization and Environmental Security: Infrastructure Development, Environmental Indicators, and Sustainability; N. Bobylev.- Approaching Environmental Security: From Stability to Sustainability; S.R. Heame.- The Human Security Dilemma: Lost Opportunities, Appropriated Concepts, or Actual Change? R. Christie.- Securing Humans and/or Environment in the Post-Conflict Balkans; B. Vankovska and T. Mileski.- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities in Appalachia, Ohio: Local Cases with Global Implications; M. Morrone.- IV: Acting on Hazard Impacts: Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Poverty-Environment Linkages and their Implications for Security: With Reference to Rwanda; D.H. Smith.- Human and Environmental Security in the Sahel: A Modest Strategy for Success; C.R. Jebb et al.- Environment and Security in Eastern Europe; O. Udovyk.- Environmental Issues of the Kyrgyz Republic and Central Asia; A. K.Tynybekov et al.- Environmental Change in the Aral Sea Region: New Approaches to Water Treatment; R. Khaydarov and R. Khaydarov.- Environmental Change of the Semipalatinsk Test Site by Nuclear Fallout Contamination; G. Ospanova et al.- V: Environmental Change and Human Impact Linkages. Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations for Policy and Research; D. Mouat and W.G. Kepner