Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerability and Risks

UNESCO EOLSSSAMPLE CHAPTERSINTERNATIONAL Security , PEACE, DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT Vol. I - Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerability and Risks - Hans G nter Brauch, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) Security THREATS, CHALLENGES, Vulnerability AND Risks Hans G nter Brauch, Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science, Free University of Berlin, Germany. Keywords: Beck, Ulrich; climate change community, cold war, disaster, disaster risk, environmental conflict, environmental degradation, environmental scarcity, environmental Security and stress, global change community, global environmental change, hazard community, New Millennium, reconceptualizing Security , risk, risk assessment, risk management, risk society, Security challenge, Security risk, Security threat, Security Vulnerability .

vulnerability and risks. This survey of the conceptual thinking on security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks has stressed a dual need for: a) more precise definitions and for a consensus on these concepts especially with regard to practical political measures to achieve the agreed goals; and b) a systematization of the threats,

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