Addressing Global Environmental Challenges from a Peace Ecology Perspective

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 Günter 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 Úrsula Oswald Spring (Mexíco) 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.

Addresses global environmental challenges Focuses on the nexus between biodiversity, water, food, energy, and waste Deals with structural violence, the tyranny of small decisions and emotional dimensions of ecological peacebuilding Offers perspectives on sustainable peace by moving toward sustainability transition Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur
Úrsula Oswald Spring, Professor at UNAM-CRIM, xi co; first UNU-EHS chair on social vulnerability; she writes on sustainability, development, gender, disaster, poverty and colla borates with pea sants.

Contenu
Introduction.- Historical Times and Turning Points in a Turbulent Century: 1914, 1945, 1989 and 2014?.- Global Ecological Crisis: Structural violence and the tyranny of small decisions.- Loving Nature: The Emotional Dimensions of Ecological Peacebuilding.- Drowning in complexity? Preliminary findings on addressing gender, peacebuilding and climate change in Honduras.