Changing Environment for Human Security

<p>Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change. This timely book will inspire new ways of understanding the relationship between environmental change and human security. <i>A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative Approaches to Research Policy and Action</i> both supports and informs a call for new transformative approaches to research policy and action. The chapters in this book include critical analyses case studies and reflections on contemporary environmental and social challenges with a strong emphasis on those related to climate change. Human thoughts and actions have contributed to an environment of insecurity manifested as multiple interacting threats that now represent a serious challenge to humanity. Yet humans also have the capacity to collectively transform the economic political social and cultural systems and structures that perpetuate human insecurities. </p> <p>These fresh perspectives on global environmental change from an interdisciplinary group of international experts will inspire readers - whether students researchers policy makers or practitioners - to think differently about environmental issues and sustainability. The contributions show that in a changing environment human security is not only a possibility but a choice.</p>