Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
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全球环境变化与人类安全
作者：
Jeff Romm
This book represents and integrates the transformative scholarship that has occurred in the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Program research network during the past decade. It establishes the vitality of the social sciences as a central force of inquiry in global environmental studies, engaging the concrete needs, motivations, and actions of people seeking to secure their health and safety, livelihoods, rights, and values in pervasively changing environments. Its development of people and communities as agents rather than just as objects of global change occurs through a framework that opens inquiry into the infinite patterns of adaptation that people may undertake to protect and expand their well-being amidst dynamic sources of insecurity. And it connects the pursuit of resilient adaptation to the patterns of options implied and sought through strategies of sustainability. The framework of the book achieves a thematic convergence of intellectual developments in a range of disciplines. As in the field of international environmental politics (O’Neill, 2010), the book expands the concept of ‘‘security’’ from its traditional state conflict-cooperation focus toward people-centered processes of resilient responsiveness to the condition-specific vulnerabilities created by diverse forms of global environmental change. The book expands ‘‘global environmental change’’ to include not only biophysical dynamics of a global system, but also globally ubiquitous localized sources of perceived threats to human wellbeing (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). Moreover, it moves beyond the resource-based violence school of localized vulnerability (Homer-Dixon, 1999) to include the broad range of threats to human health, nutrition, shelter, livelihood, rights, and social equity that, in emerging economics, have gained definition as basic entitlements (Sen, 1999). It then links practices for human securitization and strategies of socioeconomic development, both of which aspire to expand equitable and sustainable opportunities in ways that enhance human freedom and well-being (WCED, Brundtland Report, 1987). The overall integration of these EcoHealth 7, 262–264, 2010 DOI: 10.1007/s10393-010-0342-x
