Publisher's Synopsis
This book has 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. Especially over the past hundred years, the human impact has become increasingly clear. Supported by great technological and medical advances and access to plentiful natural resources, the expansion of humankind, both in numbers and exploitation of the Earth's resources is astounding.
