June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
18h 32m
English
Content preview from A Changing Environment for Human Security
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Let us take inspiration from the solutions we see around us and from the transformations that we know are possible. Let us prove to future generations that we had the vision to see where we needed to go, and the wisdom to get there.
(UN Secretary Ban-Ki Moon Remarks to UNFCCC COP18, Doha, December 4, 2012)
Introduction
As the biophysical environment of the twenty-first century is changing all around us, so too is the social environment in flux. We live in a period where multiple transformative changes are already underway; while global environmental change is taking place at unprecedented rates, the axis of global geopolitical powers is shifting, global ...