Global Warming and Climate Change

1. Introduction
Antonio Marquina

2. IPCC Assessment Reports: Challenges Presented
Ana Yábar Sterling

Part I. Water and Food

3. Water Availability and Policies in Asia
Maizatun Mustafa

4. Effects of Climate Change on Hydrological Resources in Europe: The Case of Spain
Teodoro Estrela Monreal, Elisa Vargas Amelin

5. Climate Change: Implications on Agriculture and Food Security in the Short-Medium Term
Tomás Lindemann, Daniela Morra

Part II. Natural Disasters

6. A European Mechanism to Address Natural Disasters: Working Alone Is Not an Option
Kostas Ifantis

7. Natural Disasters in Japan
Haruo Hayashi

8. China and Natural Disasters: Prospects and Policies
Luo Tianhong

9. India and Natural Disasters
P. R. Chari

10. Natural Disasters and Policies to Confront: A Case Study of Vietnam
Luan Thuy Duong

11. Cooperation for Natural Disasters and Special Units: The Emergency Military Unit (UME)
José Miguel González Requena

Part III. Environmentally Induced Migration

12. From a Socioeconomic Approach to Migration to the Inclusion of Environmentally Induced Migration in the Mediterranean
Antonio Marquina

13. Global Warming and Climate Change: Prospects for Forced Migration in Southeast Asia
Carolina G. Hernández

Part IV. Mitigation and Adaptation Policies

14. The EU and Germany’s Policies on Climate Change
Frank Umbach

15. The Nuclear Energy Debate and Emissions Reduction: The Italian Case
Massimo Leonardis

16. EU Policies for Renewable Energies
Javier Quinto Romero, Julián López Milla

17. Adaptation to Climate Change in the EU — the Spanish Case
Alfonso Gutiérrez Teira

18. China’s Emissions Reduction Policy: Problems and Prospects
Michal Meidan

19. An Analysis of Energy Utilization Efficiency in China
Shi Dan

20. Japan’s Policy for Energy Emissions Reductions and Foreign Aid
Shigeru Sudo

21. Coping with Climate Change: A Korean Perspective
Jae-Seung Lee

22. India’s Energy and Climate Concerns: The Inter-linkages, Constraints and Policy Choices
Devika Sharma

23. Climate Change and Human Security in Southeast Asia: Issues and Challenges
Mely Caballero-Anthony

24. Climate Change Awareness and Responses: Some Initiatives and Perspectives from Malaysia
Mazlin Mokhtar

25. Thailand Environmental Policies: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change and Implications for Human Security
Keokam Kraisoraphong

26. Climate Change and Human Security in the Philippines: Government Policies, Assessments and Public Opinion
Pia Bennagen Raquedan

Part V. Conclusions

27. The Politics of East Asia’s Environmental Crisis: The Coming of Environmental Authoritarianism?
Mark Beeson

28. Environmental Challenges, Conflict Prevention and Human Security
Antonio Marquina

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Environmental Politics, Nature Conservation, Military and Defence Studies, Peace Studies, Globalization