New book on security, globalisation and environmental change
Several members of the GECHS scientific steering committee as well as GECHS associates are among the editors and authors of the comprehensive, new volume in the Hexagon series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, which will be published on 6th December 2007. The title of the book is “Globalisation and Environmental Challenges, Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century”. Among the authors are GECHS chair Karen O’Brien, GECHS SSC-members John Barnett and Indra de Soysa, as well as GECHS associate Richard Matthew. GECHS associates Hans Günter Brauch and Ursula Oswald-Spring, and GECHS SSC-member Patricia Kameri-Mbote are co-editors. 92 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the global reconceptualisation of security triggered by the end of the Cold War, globalisation and manifold impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century. 75 chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical, religious and spatial context of security.