Book launch in Ottawa on 14 March and in New York on 23 March 2011 of Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security
Hans-Günter Brauch
Dear colleagues and friends,
the third volume of the Global Environmental and Human Security Handbook for the Anthropocene (GEHSHA) was published in February 2011 by Springer. This new volume was co-edited by:
Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Béchir Chourou, Pal Dunay, Jörn Birkmann (Eds.): Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security – Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks. (Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2011); Details on this book are at:
<http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexagon_05.htm>.
This volume will be launched on 14 March in Ottawa by
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies,
the Centre for European Studies (European Union Centre of Excellence)
at Carleton University,
and the British High Commission in Ottawa
Monday, March 14th, 2011, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
British High Commission, 80 Elgin
Street, Ottawa
Details at: < http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexagon_05_PressConf_Presentations.htm#ottawa>
This volume will also be launched on 23 March at the UN Headquarters by:
United Nations University, Office at the UN, New York
New York, Wednesday,
23 March, 1.15-2.30
United Nations Headquarters, 44th and 1st Avenue,
Conference Room 8
Details with the event agenda (programme), a press folder is at:
<http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexagon_05_PressConf_Presentations.htm#NY>
Registration is required at the website of UNU-ONY in March 2011. This event will also be webcast. To receive an invitation for this event leave your Email at: <http://www.ony.unu.edu/about/>.
This volume will reach the bookstores and libraries in North America in March 2011 but the online edition is already available free of charge for faculty members and students of universities that subscribe to SpringerLink.
With best regards
yours
Hans Günter Brauch, Alte Bergsteige 47, 74821 Mosbach
Editor, Hexagon Book Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace