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Hans Guenter Brauch is chairman of Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), teaches international relations at the Free University of Berlin, and is fellow at the UNU Institute on Environment and Human Security. He has been a guest professor at the universities of Frankfurt on Main, Leipzig, Greifswald, Erfurt; research associate at Heidelberg and Stuttgart universities, research fellow at Harvard and Stanford University and has taught at Darmstadt, Tübingen, Stuttgart and Heidelberg universities. Dr. phil. from Heidelberg University, habilitation from FU Berlin. He was member of IPRA Council (1992-1996), Board of Editors of the UNESCO Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies. He is member of International Institute for Strategic Studies, Pugwash Movement, IPRA, ISA and editor of the HEXAGON book series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP) with Springer-Verlag. He has published more than 30 books and 25 reports in English and German, most recently Climate Change and Conflict (2002); Environment and Human Security: Freedom from Hazard Impact (2005); Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in Environmental and Human Security (2005) and of a commissioned expert study for the German Advisory Council on Global Change report: World in Transition – Climate Change as a Security Risk on Destabilising and Conflict Potential of projected Environmental Changes in the Region of Southern Europe and North Africa (in German 2006), and co-author of a Policy Memorandum by Scientists regarding the UN Security Council’s first discussion on Climate Change: Climate Change and Human Security (15 April 2007). He is the lead editor of four major reference books in Springer’s HEXAGON Series on: Security and Environment in the Mediterranean – Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts (2003) and co-editor (with U. Oswald Spring, P. Kameri-Mbote, N. Behera Chadha, J. Grin, C. Mesjasz et al.) of three related forthcoming major volumes: Vol. III: Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century (2007/2008); Vol. IV: Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts (2008); Vol. V: Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security – Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks (2008/2009). For more information, visit his website.