This book discusses ways to deepen the debate on the linkages between global risks and human
and environmental security. The approach put forward in this book is one of questioning the
ability of existing concepts regulatory frameworks technologies and decision-making
mechanisms to accurately deal with emerging risks to human and environmental security and to
act in the direction of effectively managing their impacts and fostering the resilience of
concerned systems and resources. Empirical research findings from Africa Asia and the Pacific
Islands are provided.During the last decades the links between emerging risks and the security
of humans and nature have been the object of considerable research and deliberations. However
it is only recently becoming an important focus of policy making and advocacy. In this
contributed volume it is presumed that the ability ¿ or lack thereof ¿ to make innovative
conceptual frameworks institutional and policy arrangements and technological advances for
managing the current emerging risks will foster or undermine the environmental security and
consequently determine the future human security. Moreover taking into account the links
between environmental climate security human security and sustainability will help frame a new
research agenda and potentially develop a broad range of responses to many delicate questions.
