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This book emerged from peer-reviewed papers presented at the meetings of the Ecology and Peace Commission during the 26th General Conference of the International Peace Research Association in Freetown, Sierra Leone, from 27 November to 1 December 2016.
PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Chairman, Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), since 1987; co-convenor, IPRA’s Ecology and Commission (2012–2016), Mosbach, Germany; Email: brauch@afes-press.de. He has been a co-convener of IPRA’s EPC (2012–2018).
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See the websites of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR): on “Disaster and Conflict” at: https://www.unisdr.org/files/37777_plenaryintegratingdrrandccaforresil%5B1%5D.pdf; on “Conflict and disaster risk reduction” by UNESCO and the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)” at: http://www.iiep.unesco.org/en/our-expertise/conflict-and-disaster-risk-reduction; the project description by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI, London, UK) at: https://www.odi.org/publications/10952-next-frontier-disaster-risk-reduction-tackling-disasters-fragile-and-conflict-affected-contexts. Several humanitarian organisations have analysed this linkage as “complex emergencies”, for example, ‘preventionweb’ at: https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/34827 and reliefweb at: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/conflict-often-breeds-disaster-so-why-it-neglected-disaster-risk-reduction, and development agencies such as USAID at: https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/working-crises-and-conflict/disaster-risk-reduction/resources.
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Brauch, Hans Günter, 2009: “Securitizing Global Environmental Change”, in: Brauch, Hans Günter; Oswald Spring, Ursula; Grin, John; Mesjasz, Czeslaw; Kameri-Mbote, Patricia; Behera, Navnita Chadha; Chourou, Béchir; Krummenacher, Heinz (Eds.): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 4 (Berlin–Heidelberg–New York: Springer): 65–102.
Brauch, Hans Günter (Ed.), 2020: Politics, Policy and Polity in the Anthropocene: Tasks for the Social Sciences in the 21 st Century (Cham: Springer International Publishing).
Crutzen, Paul J.; Stoermer, Eugene F., 2000: “The Anthropocene”, in: IGBP Newsletter, 41: 17–18.
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Brauch, H.G. (2019). Contextualising Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene. In: Brauch, H., Oswald Spring, Ú., Collins, A., Serrano Oswald, S. (eds) Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97562-7_1
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