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Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

Ban, Ki-moon, Overview of United Nations activities in relation to climate change, Report of the Secretary General, United Nations, New York, 2008.

Barnett, Jon and W. Neil Adger, Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict, Political Geography, Vol.26, No.6, p. 639-655, 2007.

Brauch, Hans Günter, Environment and Human Security: Towards Freedom from Hazard Impacts, United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security, No.2, 2005. (PDF document)

Brown, Oli, Climate Change and Forced Migration: Observations, Projections and Implications, Human Development Report 2007/2008, United Nations Development Programme, 2007. (PDF document)

Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Climate Change (CICERO), Humanitarian Disasters and International Development: linking vulnerability, risk reduction and response capacity, Workshop report, presentations and keynote speaches, Oslo, Norway, 27 April, 2007.

Eriksen et al, Climate Change Adaptation and Poverty Reduction, Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) Report 2007:1, 2007. (PDF document)

EU High Representative and European Commission, Climate Change and International Security, Paper presented to the European Council, 14 March 2008. (PDF document)

Forced Migration Review, Issue 31, Climate Change and Displacement, Refugee Studies Centre of the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, October 2008. (PDF Document)

International Alert, A Climate of Conflict - The links between climate change, peace and war, November 2007. (PDF document)

Institute for Security Studies, Climate Change and Human Security in Africa, African Security Review, Vol.17, No.3, 2008. Edition dedicated to climate change and human security. (PDF document)

Lonergan, Stephen, Global Environmental Change and Human Security, International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change, Report no. 11, June 1999.

Norwegian Refugee Council, Future Flood of Refugees: A comment on climate change, conflict and forced migration, 2008. (PDF document)

Meier, Patrick et al, Environmental Influences on Pastoral Conflict in the Horn of Africa, Political Geography, Vol.26, No.6, p.716-735, 2007.

O'Brien, Karen, Are We Missing The Point? Global environmental chnage as an issue of human security, Global Environmental Change Vol.16, p.1-3, 2006

O'Brien, Karen et al, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Human Security, Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) Report 2008:3, 2008. (PDF document)

Serita, Kentaro and Takashi Inoguchi, eds., Our Planet and Human Security, selected papers delivered at the United Nations University, Global Seminar, Kobe, Japan, October 1996.

ReliefWeb, The Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change, special focus and online resource guide, 2008.

United Nations, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Disaster Risk Reduction Global Review 2007. (PDF document)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Climate Change and Children: A Human Security Challenge, 2008. (PDF document)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2007/2008, Fighting Climate Change: Human solidarity in a divided world, 2007. (PDF document)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2006, Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis, 2006. (PDF document)

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Bangladesh, Ghana and Senegal, 2008. (PDF document)

Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World, 2009.