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Global Environmental Change and Human Security

What are the relationships between global environmental change and human security? This is the primary research question posed by the GECHS project. Answering this question involves the need to focus on issues of perception, adaptation, vulnerability, interaction, response, and thresholds.
Research areas include conceptual and theoretical issues, resource use such as conflicts around water, and how population issues relate to both global environmental change and human security. One objective is to encourage the collaboration of scholars internationally, another to facilitate improved communication and cooperation between the policy community, user groups and the research community. To the latter end, a regular policy bulletin, AVISO, is published and spread broadly.
For more information on the GECHS Project go to www.gechs.org

Project Goals

Environmental changes resulting from both human activities and natural processes pose risks to human security. GECHS situates these changes within the larger socio-economic and political contexts that shape the capacity of communities to cope with and respond to change.

GECHS presents global environmental change as an issue of equity, sustainability, and human security.

Science Plan:
Global Environmental Change
and Human Security



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Project Website

www.gechs.org

Global Environmental Change and Human Security

International Project Office
Institute for
Sociology &
Human
Geography
University of
Oslo
P. O. Box 1096,
Blindern
0317 Oslo
Norway











Chair of the
Scientific
Steering
Committee


Karen O'Brien
University of
Oslo
Norway
info@gechs.org



Executive Officer

Linda Sygna
info@gechs.org

Publications and Events

GECHS Science Plan: Global Environmental Change and Human Security: Science Plan Steve Lonergan et al, 1999. IHDP Report Series No. 11
AVISO - An Information Bulletin on Global Environmental Change and Human Security - go to http://www.gechs.org/aviso/index.shtml to see all editions of AVISO.


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GECHS Synthesis Conference: Human Security in an Era of Global Change

Time and place: GECHS Synthesis Conference: Human Security in an Era of Global Change Jun 22, 2009 - Jun 24, 2009 , University of Oslo, Norway





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Experts Find the Human Face of Environmental Security

Watch video interviews with environmental security experts







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The New Security Beat Blog

This blog is promoting dialogue on the connections among environmental, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.





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GECHS Synthesis: Human Security in an Era of Global Change

Human security is a concept that has come of age. Without a doubt, it has gone through severe growing pains over the past two decades. As a post-modern concept, it emphasises notions of equity, justice, ethics, and rights – all of which inevitably draw attention to power hierarchies and political interests. More...

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