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SOURCE

The SOURCE series offers its audience of students, scholars, and professionals in-depth information within the area of environment and human security. This series publishes interdisciplinary reports, dissertations, and other educational text prepared by the UNU-EHS and its academic officers, with support from UNU-EHS-related research universities, and adheres to the goal of the UNU to produce policy relevant knowledge. SOURCE has thoroughly examined such topics as social vulnerability, environmental governance, and gender security, so that scientists can address the complex questions that arise in these subcategories of environment and human security.

Recent SOURCE Issues

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    SOURCE 15/2011: Governments Need to Consider Additional Migration Management Policies and Strategies

    The new SOURCE issue "Climate Change and Migration: Rethinking Policies for Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction", edited by Michelle Leighton, Xiaomeng Shen and Koko Warner, presents the outcomes of the 2010 Summer Academy "Protecting Environmental Migrants: Creating New Policy and Institutional Framework". Using case studies conducted in both developing and developed countries, selected papers of PhD students from different academic backgrounds identify legal and institutional gaps and explore possible policy options for decision makers to be able to better protect environmental migrants.

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    New Source Issue on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

    Source No. 14/2010, edited by Neysa Setiadi, Jörn Birkmann and Philip Buckle, provides a compilation of joint papers focusing on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). Case Studies and conceptual discussion papers intend to trigger new approaches, scientific discussions and increased attention on exisiting DRR and CCA issues in South and Southeast Asia.

    Download SOURCE 14/2010 |Read more

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    Source No. 13/2010: New Research Findings in the Field of Climate Change

    "Tipping Points in Humanitarian Crisis: From Hot Spots to Hot Systems", edited by Xiaomeng Shen , Thomas E. Downing and Mohamed Hamza, presents the outcomes of the 4th UNU-EHS/MRF Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability (26 July - 1 August 2009). The Academy participants developed the new "hot system approach" that analyses how the interplay of coupled social-ecological systems increases vulnerability or resilience.

    Download Source No. 13/2010 | Read more

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    New SOURCE on Linking Environmental Change, Migration & Social Vulnerability - Out Now!

    "Linking Environmental Change, Migration and Social Vulnerability", edited by Anthony Oliver-Smith and Xiaomeng Shen, presents the articles of seven of the PHD researchers who took part in the third UNU-EHS Summer Academy of the Munich Re Foundation.

    The researchers give a literature overview of environmental migration, concepts, and the legal and institutional frameworks. Using different case studies, they illustrate how vulnerable people are to environmental changes and how migration can be a coping strategy when responding and adapting to changing environments. In this context, the authors also discuss examples of resettlement and replacement patterns.

    Download SOURCE No. 12/2009. |Read more

  1. SOURCE No. 11 on Global Health

  2. SOURCE No. 10 on Megacities

  3. New SOURCE Issue on 'Rapid Assessment of Potential Impacts of a Tsunami'

  4. Gender and Disasters by Úrsula Oswald Spring - New SOURCE Issue.

  5. SOURCE No. 7/2007 - Rapid Vulnerability Assessment by J. Birkmann, N. Fernando, S. Hettige, et al.

  6. SOURCE No. 6/2007 - Perspectives on Social Vulnerability Edited by Koko Warner

  7. SOURCE No. 5/2006: Measuring the UN-Measurable by Jörn Birkmann & Ben Wisner

  8. SOURCE No. 4/2006: Vulnerability by Juan Carlos Villagrán de Léon

  9. SOURCE No. 3: International Environmental Governance. by Andreas Rechkemmer

  10. SOURCE No. 2: Components of Risk by Katharina Thywissen

  11. SOURCE No. 1: Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks by Hans Günter Brauch