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Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration - With a Foreword by Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser and a Preface by Hans Gunter Brauch (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Ursula Oswald Spring
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Earth at Risk in the 21st Century offers critical interdisciplinary
reflections on peace, security, gender relations, migration and the
environment, all of which are threatened by climate change, with
women and children affected most. Deep-rooted gender discrimination
is also a result of the destructive exploitation of natural
resources and the pollution of soils, water, biota and air. In the
Anthropocene, the management of human society and global resources
has become unsustainable and has created multiple conflicts by
increasing survival threats primarily for poor people in the Global
South. Alternative approaches to peace and security, focusing from
bottom-up on an engendered peace with sustainability, may help
society and the environment to be managed in the highly fragile
natural conditions of a 'hothouse Earth'. Thus, the book explores
systemic alternatives based on indigenous wisdom, gift economy and
the economy of solidarity, in which an alternative cosmovision
fosters mutual care between humankind and nature. * Special
analysis of risks to the survival of humankind in the 21st century.
* Interdisciplinary studies on peace, security, gender and
environment related to global environmental and climate change. *
Critical reflections on gender relations, peace, security,
migration and the environment * Systematic analysis of food, water,
health, energy security and its nexus. * Alternative proposals from
the Global South with indigenous wisdom for saving Mother Earth.
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Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration - With a Foreword by Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser and a Preface by Hans Gunter Brauch (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Ursula Oswald Spring
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R4,388
Discovery Miles 43 880
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Earth at Risk in the 21st Century offers critical interdisciplinary
reflections on peace, security, gender relations, migration and the
environment, all of which are threatened by climate change, with
women and children affected most. Deep-rooted gender discrimination
is also a result of the destructive exploitation of natural
resources and the pollution of soils, water, biota and air. In the
Anthropocene, the management of human society and global resources
has become unsustainable and has created multiple conflicts by
increasing survival threats primarily for poor people in the Global
South. Alternative approaches to peace and security, focusing from
bottom-up on an engendered peace with sustainability, may help
society and the environment to be managed in the highly fragile
natural conditions of a 'hothouse Earth'. Thus, the book explores
systemic alternatives based on indigenous wisdom, gift economy and
the economy of solidarity, in which an alternative cosmovision
fosters mutual care between humankind and nature. * Special
analysis of risks to the survival of humankind in the 21st century.
* Interdisciplinary studies on peace, security, gender and
environment related to global environmental and climate change. *
Critical reflections on gender relations, peace, security,
migration and the environment * Systematic analysis of food, water,
health, energy security and its nexus. * Alternative proposals from
the Global South with indigenous wisdom for saving Mother Earth.
This book aims to initiate among students and other readers
critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems
concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment,
with a special emphasis on North-South relations. This volume
offers a selection of the author's research in different parts of
the world during 50 years of contributing to an interdisciplinary
scientific debate and addressing social answers to urgent global
problems. After the author's biography and bibliography, the second
part analyses the development processes of several countries in the
South that resulted in a dynamic of underdevelopment. The
deep-rooted gender discrimination is also reflected in the
destructive exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of
soils, water and air. Since the beginning of the Anthropocene in
the mid-20th century, the management of human society and global
resources has been unsustainable and has created global
environmental change and multiple conflicts over scarce and
polluted resources. Peace and development policies aiming at gender
equity and sustainable environmental management, where water and
food are crucial for the survival of humankind, focus on systemic
alternatives embedded in a path of sustainability transition. *
This book reviews multiple influences from Europe, Africa and Latin
America on a leading social scientist and activist on gender,
development and environment aiming at a world with equity,
sustainability, peace and harmony between nature and humans.* This
pioneer volume analyses social and environmental conflicts and
peace processes in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico,
by addressing the development of under-development, global
environmental change, poverty, nutrition and the North-South gap.*
This volume focuses on environmental deterioration with a special
emphasis on food and water and proposes systemic changes towards a
sustainability transition with peace, regional development and
gender equity.* This pioneering work offers alternative approaches
to regional development, food sovereignty and holistic development
processes from a gender perspective.
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 analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets,
schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin America. It
examines the nonviolent negotiations, human rights, peacebuilding
and education, explores security in cyberspace and proposes to
overcome xenophobia, white supremacy, sexism, and homophobia, where
social inequality increases injustice and violence. During the past
40 years of the Latin American Council for Peace Research (CLAIP)
regional conditions have worsened. Environmental justice was
crucial in the recent peace process in Colombia, but also in other
countries, where indigenous people are losing their livelihood and
identity. Since the end of the cold war, capitalism aggravated the
life conditions of poor people. The neoliberal dismantling of the
State reduced their rights and wellbeing in favour of enterprises.
Youth are not only the most exposed to violence, but represent also
the future for a different management of human relations and
nature.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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