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This book offers theoretical analysis on the context and on the
dual function of military technology, as well as case studies on
the third generation of nuclear weapons, on the Biological Weapons
Convention Review Conference, on the driving forces of chemical
armament and on the military use of nuclear energy as a possible
propellant for bombers and in outer space. Five chapters written by
three physicists from the USA, USSR and UK and two peace
researchers from Japan and West Germany focus on SDI: its technical
foundations, consequences for strategic stability and war as well
as on its contradictions and on a case of armament dynamics theory.
The book concludes with three chapters on the implications of the
military use of outer space for international law from a Western,
an Eastern and a Third World perspective, with views from West
Germany, Hungary and Barbados, respectively.
In this book 60 authors from many disciplines and from 18 countries
on five continents examine in ten parts: Moving towards
Sustainability Transition; Aiming at Sustainable Peace; Meeting
Challenges of the 21st Century: Demographic Imbalances, Temperature
Rise and the Climate-Conflict Nexus; Initiating Research on Global
Environmental Change, Limits to Growth, Decoupling of Growth and
Resource Needs; Developing Theoretical Approaches on Sustainability
and Transitions; Analysing National Debates on Sustainability in
North America; Preparing Transitions towards a Sustainable Economy
and Society, Production and Consumption and Urbanization; Examining
Sustainability Transitions in the Water, Food and Health Sectors
from Latin American and European Perspectives; Preparing
Sustainability Transitions in the Energy Sector; and Relying on
Transnational, International, Regional and National Governance for
Strategies and Policies Towards Sustainability Transition. This
book is based on workshops held in Mexico (2012) and in the US
(2013), on a winter school at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
(2013), and on commissioned chapters. The workshop in Mexico and
the publication were supported by two grants by the German
Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). All texts in this book were
peer-reviewed by scholars from all parts of the world.
This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace
Research Association's Ecology and Peace Commission: M.I.
Abazie-Humphrey (Nigeria) reviews "Nigeria's Home-Grown DDR
Programme"; C. Christian and H. Speight (USA) analyse "Water,
Cooperation, and Peace in the Palestinian West Bank"; T. Galaviz
(Mexico) discusses "The Peace Process Mediation Network between the
Colombian Government and the April 19th Movement"; S.E. Serrano
Oswald (Mexico) examines "Social Resilience and Intangible Cultural
Heritage: Case Study in Mexico"; A. F. Rashid (Pakistan) and F.
Feng (China) focus on "Community Perceptions of Ecological
Disturbances Caused During Terrorists Invasion and
Counter-insurgency Operations in Swat, Pakistan"; M. Yoshii (Japan)
examines "Structure of Discrimination in Japan's Nuclear Export"
and finally, S. Takemine (Japan) discusses "'Global Hibakusha' and
the Invisible Victims of US Nuclear Testing in the Marshall
Islands".
Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology
perspective, the present book offers peer-reviewed texts that build
on the expanding field of peace ecology and applies this concept to
global environmental challenges in the Anthropocene. Hans Gunter
Brauch (Germany) offers a typology of time and turning points in
the 20th century; Juliet Bennett (Australia) discusses the global
ecological crisis resulting from a "tyranny of small decisions";
Katharina Bitzker (Canada) debates "the emotional dimensions of
ecological peacebuilding" through love of nature; Henri Myrttinen
(UK) analyses "preliminary findings on gender, peacebuilding and
climate change in Honduras" while Ursula Oswald Spring (Mexico)
offers a critical review of the policy and scientific nexus debate
on "the water, energy, food and biodiversity nexus", reflecting on
security in Mexico. In closing, Brauch discusses whether strategies
of sustainability transition may enhance the prospects for
achieving sustainable peace in the Anthropocene.
Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change
is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a
challenge for the world's governance structures. But how severe are
the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could
global warming trigger a sequence of events leading to economic
decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the
causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent
conflict? This book brings together international experts to
explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the
world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions
and cooperative approaches to stabilize the climate-society
interaction.
Jonathan Dean (1924-2014) was a distinguished U.S. diplomat
(1950-1980) and from 1984 to 2007 global security adviser to the
Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C. During the 1980s
and 1990s he was a pioneering conceptual thinker, writer and
speaker on detente in Europe, global cooperative security, arms
control and disarmament. He authored: Watershed in Europe (1987),
Meeting Gorbachev s Challenge (1989) and Ending Europe s Wars
(1994). This volume contains his biography and bibliography, six
texts on detente and arms control in Europe in the 1980s: Beyond
First Use; MBFR; Alternative Defence; Berlin; A Crisis Management
Center; Conventional Arms Control in Europe and six texts on the
new security order in Europe since the 1990s: Components of a
Post-Cold War Security System for Europe; Constraining
Technological Weapons Innovation; NATO Enlargement: Act II; Ten
Years after the Wall; Future Security in Space; Rethinking
Security: Return to the Grotean Pattern."
This book has peer-reviewed chapters by scholars from Australia,
Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the USA that were presented to
the Ecology and Peace Commission (EPC) of the International Peace
Research Association (IPRA) in November 2012 in Japan. The chapters
address these themes: Expanding Peace Ecology - Peace, Security,
Sustainability, Equity and Gender; Two Discourses on Global Climate
Change Impacts: From Climate Change and Security to Sustainability
Transition; Peace Research and Greening in the Red Zone:
Community-based Ecological Restoration to Enhance Resilience and
Transitions Toward Peace; Social and Environmental Vulnerability in
a River Basin of Mexico; Mobile Learning, Rebuilding Community
Through Building Communities, Supporting Community Capacities: Post
Natural Disaster Experience; Transforming Consciousness through
Peace Environmental Education; Building Peace by Rebuilding
Community; Ability Expectations and Peace and on Satoyama
Sustainability and Peace.
Ein renommiertes Autorenteam behandelt in diesem interdisziplinaren
Studienbuch Probleme der Energiegeschichte, Energiesysteme,
Energietechnik und der Potentiale der erneuerbaren Energien:
Wasser- und Windkraft, Biomasse, Geothermie, Photovoltaik und
Solarthermie; der Verbesserung der Rahmenbedingungen fur ihre
Markteinfuhrung; Handlungskonzepte und Forderungsschwerpunkte der
EU, USA und Japans in diesem Bereich; Aktivitaten der
Bundesregierung und Vorschlage nichtstaatlicher Akteure hierzu
sowie Strategien zur rationellen Energienutzung; Methoden fur einen
Energiekonsens und Kriterien zur Beurteilung von Energiesystemen;
Handlungskonzepte und Vorschlage fur den Ausbau der Sonnenenergie
im Mittelmeerraum und in Afrika sowie politische Faktoren bei der
Markteinfuhrung in der Triade: USA, Japan und der EU."
This book outlines the development and perspectives of the
Anthropocene concept by Paul J. Crutzen and his colleagues from its
inception to its implications for the sciences, humanities, society
and politics. The main text consists primarily of articles from
peer-reviewed scientific journals and other scholarly sources. It
comprises selected articles on the Anthropocene published by Paul
J. Crutzen and a selection of related articles, mostly but not
exclusively by colleagues with whom he collaborated closely. * In
the year 2000 Nobel Laureate Paul J. Crutzen proposed the
Anthropocene concept as a new epoch in Earth's history *
Comprehensive collection of articles on the Anthropocene by Paul J.
Crutzen and his colleagues* Unique primary research literature and
Crutzen's comprehensive bibliography* Paul Crutzen's scientific
investigations into human influences on atmospheric chemistry and
physics, the climate and the Earth system, leading to the
conception of the Anthropocene* Reflections on the Anthropocene and
its implications* Bibliometric review of the spread of the use of
the Anthropocene concept in the Natural and Social Sciences,
Humanities and Law
In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global
North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment
and development. Four parts cover I) peace research epistemology;
II) conflicts, families and vulnerable people; III) peacekeeping,
peacebuilding and transitional justice; and IV) peace and
education. Part I deals with peace ecology, transformative peace,
peaceful societies, Gandhi's non-violent policy and disobedient
peace. Part II discusses urban climate change, climate rituals,
conflicts in Kenya, the sexual abuse of girls, farmer-herder
conflicts in Nigeria, wartime sexual violence facing refugees, the
traditional conflict and peacemakingprocess of Kurdish tribes,
Hindustani family shame, and communication with Roma. Part III
analyses norms of peacekeeping, violent non-state actors in Brazil,
the art of peace in Mexico, grass-roots post-conflict peacebuilding
in Sulawesi, hydrodiplomacyin the Indus River Basin, the Rohingya
refugee crisis, and transitional justice. Part IV assesses SDGs and
peace in India, peace education in Nepal, and infrastructure-based
development and peace in West Papua. * Peer-reviewed texts prepared
for the 27th Conference of the International Peace Research
Association (IPRA) in 2018 in Ahmedabad in India.* Contributions
from two pioneers of global peace research:a foreword by Johan
Galtung from Norway and a preface by Betty Reardon from the United
States.* Innovative case studies by peace researchers on
decolonising conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and
development in the Anthropocene, the new epoch of earth and human
history.* New theoretical perspectives by senior and junior
scholars from Europe and Latin America on peace ecology,
transformative peace, peaceful societies, and Gandhi's non-violence
policy.* Case studies on climate change, SDGs and peace in India;
conflicts in Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Turkey, Brazil and
Mexico; Roma in Hungary;the refugee crisis in Bangladesh; peace
action in Indonesia and India/Pakistan; and peace education in
Nepal.
This book provides insight into Anthropocene-related studies by
IPRA's Ecology and Peace Commission. The first three chapters
discuss the linkage between disasters and conflict risk reduction,
responses to socio-environmental disasters in high-intensity
conflict scenarios and the fragile state of disaster response with
a special focus on aid-state-society relations in post-conflict
settings. The two following chapters analyse climate-smart
agriculture and a sustainable food system for a
sustainable-engendered peace and the ethnology of select indigenous
cultural resources for climate change adaptation focusing on the
responses of the Abagusii in Kenya. A specific case study focuses
on social representations and the family as a social institution in
transition in Mexico, while the last chapter deals with sustainable
peace through sustainability transition as transformative science
concluding with a peace ecology perspective for the Anthropocene.
This book contains texts by the Nobel laureate Paul J. Crutzen who
is best known for his research on ozone depletion. It comprises
Crutzen's autobiography, several pictures documenting important
stages of his life, and his most important scientific publications.
The Dutch atmospheric chemist is one of the world's most cited
scientists in geosciences. His political engagement makes him a
tireless ambassador for environmental issues such as climate
change. He popularized the term 'Anthropocene' for the current
geological era acknowledging the enduring influence of humankind on
planet Earth. This concept conceives humans to be a geologic
factor, influencing the evolution of our globe and the living
beings populating it. The selection of texts is representing Paul
Crutzens scientific oeuvre as his research interests span from
ozone depletion to the climatic impacts of biomass burning, the
consequences of a worldwide atomic war - the Nuclear Winter - to
geoengineering and the Anthropocene.
Ein renommiertes Autorenteam behandelt in diesem interdisziplinaren
Studienbuch Probleme der Energiegeschichte, Energiesysteme,
Energietechnik und der Potentiale der erneuerbaren Energien:
Wasser- und Windkraft, Biomasse, Geothermie, Photovoltaik und
Solarthermie; der Verbesserung der Rahmenbedingungen fur ihre
Markteinfuhrung; Handlungskonzepte und Forderungsschwerpunkte der
EU, USA und Japans in diesem Bereich; Aktivitaten der
Bundesregierung und Vorschlage nichtstaatlicher Akteure hierzu
sowie Strategien zur rationellen Energienutzung; Methoden fur einen
Energiekonsens und Kriterien zur Beurteilung von Energiesystemen;
Handlungskonzepte und Vorschlage fur den Ausbau der Sonnenenergie
im Mittelmeerraum und in Afrika sowie politische Faktoren bei der
Markteinfuhrung in der Triade: USA, Japan und der EU."
Ein renommiertes interdisziplinares Autorenteam geht zunachst
ausfuhrlich auf die naturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen des
Treibhauseffektes ein und benennt die Akteure, Instrumente und
Konflikte im Rahmen der internationalen und der nationalen
Klimapolitik. Ferner erortern die Autorinnen und Autoren
okonomische Aspekte des Treibhauseffektes und der
Klimaschutzpolitik und erlautern den Beitrag der beiden
Enquete-Kommissionen des Deutschen Bundestages zum Schutz der
Erdatmosphare. Schliesslich behandeln sie die Umsetzung der
Klimarahmenkonvention in Deutschland auf der Ebene des Bundes,
eines Bundeslandes (Hessen) und dreier Stadte (Heidelberg, Munster
und Frankfurt am Main).
Die Geschichte der Riistungskontrolle, besonders fiir Kernwaffen,
ist bedriickend. Von der Ausnahme des ABM-Vertrages abgesehen, der
auch in Gefahr ist, hat es keine Vereinbarung gegeben, die die
Erwei- terung der Arsenale in immer neuen Dimensionen, Vermehrung
der Sprengkopfe, Verkleinerung der Sprengkraft, Verfeinerung der
Zielgenauigkeit, verhindert hatte. 1m Gegenteil: Immer neue Grau-
zonen entstanden .- bewugt, mug man bei der Intelligenz der Betei-
ligten sagen -- und offneten das Rennen auf dem Gebiete der Mittel-
streckenwaffen, wiihrend man iiber die interkontinentalen sprach.
Heute ist das Feld der Kurzstreckenraketen nicht verschlossen, wah-
rend man iiber die Mittelstreckenraketen verhandelt. Wah rend Genf
auf beiden Gebieten beschiiftigt ist, wird das Rennen auf dem
Gebie- te der Marschflugkorper (Cruise Missiles) sorgsam
offengehalten, ob- wohl es noch keine
Riistungskontrollmoglichkeiten fiir Cruise Missiles gibt.
Schlieglich sind die Vorbereitungen uniibersehbar, Waf- fen in den
Weltraum zu bringen. In der Theorie sind eine ganze Reihe dieser
Faktoren destabilisie- rend. Dag sie es in der Praxis nicht sind,
mag auch daran liegen dag die Fiille der Faktoren und Moglichkeiten
schwer iiberschaubar ge- worden ist und jedenfalls das Risiko
unertraglich grog bleibt.
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