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Dialectical Journal Chapter 8

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Chapter 8 of the textbook by Leichenko and O’Brien (2008) focuses on human security in an era of global change, which discusses addressing global change, decreasing outcome differentials, reducing vulnerability, changing the processes and new openings. Reducing vulnerability is such a broad topic and can be applied to so many different sub-areas and sectors such as: economic, biophysical, financial, political, social, institutional, cultural or technological. All of these sub sections can all reduce vulnerability in terms of the geological approach and climate change. Chapter 8 of the textbook has a sub-heading called, reducing vulnerability, where it states that “many initiatives to reduce vulnerability fail to recognize that global change …show more content…

The MDGs often neglect to mention numerous aspects, for example how global environmental change interacts with globalization, how it fails to acknowledge new vulnerabilities and new threats to communities. MDGs are very vital and essential part of reducing vulnerabilities but only in certain …show more content…

There are various contexts in which one can reduce vulnerability such as cultural, technological, financial, social, political, institutional and biophysical. All of the previously listed contexts, can be used to determine solutions and plans to reduce vulnerability in certain areas and subdivisions. After reading the conclusions in chapter 8 of the text, it is clear that reducing vulnerability takes time, effort and support but it does help ecosystems re-stabilize and strengthen as long as the repercussions, whether in the same context or not, are insignificant and not

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