Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration

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.

Autorentext
Úrsula Oswald Spring (Mexico) is full time Professor/ Researcher at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in the Regional Multidisciplinary Research Centre (CRIM). She was national coordinator of water research for the National Council of Science and Technology (RETAC-CONACYT), first Chair on Social Vulnerability at the United National University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS); founding Secretary-General of El Colegio de Tlaxcala; General Attorney of Ecology in the State of Morelos (1992-1994), National Delegate of the Federal General Attorney of Environment (1994-1995); Minister of Ecological Development in the State of Morelos (1994-1998). She has worked for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Mexican PINCC. She was President of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA, 1998-2000), its Secretary General (2016-2018), where she organised the IPRA General Conference in Ahmedabad, India. She was also General Secretary of the Latin American Council for Peace Research (2002-2006) and is the Honours President of CLAIP. She has studied medicine, clinical psychology, anthropology, ecology, classical and modern languages, and obtained her PhD from the University of Zürich (1978). For her scientific work she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (2005), the Environmental Merit in Tlaxcala, Mexico (2005, 2006), and the UN Development Prize. She was recognised as Academic Women by UNAM (1990 and 2000) and Women of the Year (2000). She works on nonviolence and sustainable agriculture with groups of peasants and women and is President of the Advisory Council of the Peasant University. She has written 57 books and over 386 scientific articles and book chapters on sustainability, climate change, adaptation, water, gender, development, poverty, drug consumption, brain damage due to chronic under-nourishment, peasantry, social vulnerability, genetic modified organisms, bioethics, and human, gender, and environmental security, peace and conflict resolution, democracy, and conflict negotiation

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Part I: Texts on Peace, Gender, Environment and Security

1. Contextualisation on Gender, Peace, Security and Environment

2. On Peace and Security

3. Peace and Sustainability in a Globalised World 4. Ahimsa and Human Development: A Different Paradigm for Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution

5. On Environmental Security and Global Environmental Change

6. Ecology and Threats to Human Survival

7. Conflicts, Megalopolis and Hydrodiplomacy

8. Peace, Environment and Security: A Gender Perspective from the Third World.

9. Environmental Management in a Globalised World

Part II: Texts on Gender and Human Security

10. Gender Security

11. On HUGE Security: Human, Gender and Environmental Security

12. On Engendered-sustainable Peace from a Feminist and a Bottom-up Perspective

13. A Gender Perspective on Climate Change

Part III: Texts on Water, Health, Food and Energy Security

14. On Water Security

15. On Health and Water Security

16. Agroecology for Food Sovereignty and Security

17. Energy Security: Policies and Potentials in Mexico

Part IV: Texts on Migration, the Nexus among Sectorial Securities and Outlook

18. Analysing Migration and Environmental-induced Migration with the PEISOR Model

19. Environmentally-induced Migration from Bottom-up in Central Mexico

20. The Nexus among Water, Soil, Food, Biodiversity and Energy Security

21. The Global South facing the Challenges of the Challenges of an Engendered, Sustainable and Peaceful Transition