Environmental Change and Globalization: Doubles Exposures
- ISBN-10
- 0195177312
- ISBN-13
- 9780195177312
- Series
- Environmental Change and Globalization
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 167
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-09-25
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Karen O'Brien, Robin Leichenko
Description
Double exposure -- Global change discourses -- Double exposure -- Pathways of double exposure -- Uneven outcomes and growing inequalities -- Changing contexts and emerging vulnerabilities -- Dynamic feedbacks and accelerating changes -- Double exposure and human security
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