ABSTRACT

This book makes an important and timely contribution to debates about the relationship between climate change and security in Southeast Asia. It does so through a human security lens, drawing on local and regional expertise to discuss the threats that climate change poses to human security in Southeast Asia and to show how a human security approach draws attention to the importance of adaptation and strategies for social resilience. In doing so, it exposes the consequences of climate change, the impact on community rights and access, the special problem of border areas, before going on to investigate local and regional strategies for addressing the human security challenges of climate change.

chapter 3|19 pages

Risk, vulnerability and resilience

Climate change and the urban poor in Asia

chapter 5|15 pages

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD)

Mitigation, adaptation and the resilience of local livelihoods

chapter 6|17 pages

The gender and climate debate

More of the same or new pathways of thinking and doing?

chapter 7|19 pages

Climate security and development in Southeast Asia

The limits of UNESCAP's Green Growth approach

chapter 8|20 pages

Risk, resilience and human security in cross-border areas

The Greater Mekong Subregion, the Heart of Borneo and the Coral Triangle

chapter 9|14 pages

ASEAN and climate change

Building resilience through regional initiatives

chapter 10|9 pages

Conclusion

Conditions for enhancing human security