Facing Global Environmental Change

Global environmental change and globalisation pose new security challenges in the 21st century. More than 100 experts assess the systemic, cultural, religious and spatial context of security in the 21st century, focusing on the referents (individual, society, state, region, global/planetary), major disciplines (philosophy, sociology, international law, economics, political science, international relations, security studies, peace research), dimensions (military, political, economic, societal and environmental), analysing climate change, desertification, water, population, urbanisation, food, hazards and migration as new security issues and sectoral (energy, food, health, water and livelihood) security concepts with a special focus on debates on environmental and human security.