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SOURCE
Studies Of University:
Research, Counsel, Education
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.
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"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
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Towards Sustainable Global Health - edited by Martin Exner, Günter Klein, Andreas Rechkemmer and Falk Schmidt, and co-published by the International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) - explores how health lies at the heart of secure and sustainable societies.This Source explores global health as a basic value for all human beings and societies and provides a conceptual framework to work towards policies for sustainable global health. Only healthy individuals can form a productive, prosperous society making health the most fundamental dimension of human security.Download SOURCE No. 11/2008.— Read more
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This issue edited by the MRF Chairholder Hans-Georg Bohle and Koko Warner presents the outcomes of the UNU-EHS Summer Academy 2007 of the MRF Chair on Social Vulnerability.Megacities simultaneously offer the best of humanity and challenge us with the worst of human security problems.Cities are today the home to about half of all humanity and serve as uneasy hosts to a variety of less desirable facets. Cities bursting with millions of people battle crime, unemployment or underemployment, insufficient infrastructure including housing and sanitation, and exposure to natural disasters.In this volume,authors explore some of these dynamics related to megacities, resilience,and social vulnerability.Download the SOURCE No. 10 here.— Read more
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The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami demonstrated the devastating after effects of sudden natural hazards and the increasing need for further study into tsunamis and the creation of an early warning system in susceptible areas. Since that day, the UN has strived to build an effective tsunami system for the Indian Ocean that will serve as a model to extend that protection all over the world.In this new SOURCE publication, written by Dr. Juan Carlos Villagrán de León, the Head of Section Risk Management at UNU-EHS, the author follows the motto of the United Nations University, ‘Advancing Knowledge for Human Security and Development’, and presents a framework for minimising tsunami damage, establishing an early warning system, and ensuring human safety through examining the case study of the port city of Galle in Sri Lanka.Download SOURCE No. 9/2008— Read more
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Professor Úrsula Oswald Spring, the first chairholder of the MRF-Chair on Social Vulnerability at UNU-EHS, provides here thoughts about gender and security issues and shows challenges and opportunities of disaster risk management. Gender is considered as an aspect of social vulnerability, as women all over the world are the centre of not only the family unit, but of the whole society.Oswald Spring calls therefore for renewed efforts to reduce social vulnerability by critically examining gender specific beliefs that lead to violence and victimization. The publication is a great contribution to understand more about the gender aspects of risk and vulnerability.Download here— Read more
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“Rapid Vulnerability Assessment in Sri Lanka” by Jörn Birkmann, Nishara Fernando, Siri Hettige et.al. is the result of a study conducted shortly after the devastating tsunami of December 2004. Not only does it provide new insights into the vulnerability of coastal communities and cities in Sri Lanka, it also gives an overview of different methodologies.Download SOURCE No. 7/2007— Read more
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“Perspectives on Social Vulnerability” is a selection of papers from the first Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability, that took place from 22-28 July 2006 in Hohenkammer, Germany. This title suggests some of the fundamental aspects of the multidisciplinary, debate-filled, and policy relevant research surrounding the impact of shocks groups at risk face from multiple stressors.— Read more
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Measuring the Un-Measurable – is a short and succinct title as well as an indication of the challenges and difficulties in deriving appropriate methodologies, indicators and criteria to identify, measure and assess vulnerabilities of societies at risk.
This SOURCE publication is an essential reading for those interested in vulnerability research and the assessment and measurement of it. The publication by J. Birkmann and B.Wisner leads us through the thematic areas which were discussed, outlines the different scales of the assessment approaches presented, and analyses the nature of vulnerability measurement.Download the SOURCE No. 5/2006— Read more -
UNU-EHS is happy to present the new issue of our publications series SOURCE. SOURCE No. 4 with the title “Vulnerability: A Conceptual and Methodological Review” deals with the complex problematic of vulnerability assessment today and has been written by one of our staff members, the Academic Officer Dr. Juan Carlos Villagrán de León. The publication offers a review of different ideas, concepts and methods developed in the recent years of research to capture vulnerability at different scales, as well as of proceedings and possibilities in the field of vulnerability assessment.Dr. Villagrán is specialized in Risk Reduction and Early Warning and has been active in the past in projects in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.To download the electronic version of the SOURCE 4/2006 issue, please click here— Read more
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Environmental awareness and the political will to rehabilitate and to protect ecosystems, have certainly been growing since their inception 1970. This development can be followed in a series of large, intergovernmental conferences. Programmes, conventions, their governing organs and secretariats together with national ministries and environmental agencies can be identified as the most important instruments of environmental governance.
You can download the issue No. 3/2006 as a pdf file here— Read more -
As one of the first activities of UNU-EHS, a project was launched in late 2004 with the aim to summarize the core terminology of disaster preparedness and reduction, that of risk management by collecting and comparing the various interpretations, definitions, and conventions used by the different scientific disciplines or professional communities. The present issue of SOURCE is the result of more than one year of research and consultation with stake holders, revisions and incorporation of expert advice.You can download the issue No. 2/2006 here.— Read more
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The first issue "Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilites and Risks in Environmental and Human Security" by Hans Günter Brauch is available for download here.
The present issue, written by Dr Hans Günter Brauch is an adequate start to underline the above outlined aims. The author analyses and summarises the drivers and components of the unfolding process of defining and conceptualising human security in the environmental context.— Read more -
The mandate of the United Nations University to generate policy relevant knowledge implies that its "products" should address a broader audience than the regular target groups of universities and research institutions. Policy makers, professionals, scholars, students, and the interested public can not all be addressed optimally with one and the same publication.— Read more