Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology perspective [electronic resource] / Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Juliet Bennett, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald, editors.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[Cham] : Springer, 2016.
Description
1 online resource (204 p.) : color illustrations

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Subject(s)
Series
  • Anthropocene (Springer (Firm)) ; volume 4. [More in this series]
  • The Anthropocene: Politik--Economics--Society--Science ; volume 4
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 11, 2016)
Contents
  • Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Addressing Global Environmental Challenges from a Peace Ecology Perspective; 1.1 Peace Ecology in the Anthropocene; 1.2 Addressing Global Environmental Challenges from a Peace Ecology Perspective; 1.3 Organization of the Book: Biodiversity, Water, Food, Energy and Waste; References; 2 Historical Times and Turning Points in a Turbulent Century: 1914, 1945, 1989 and 2014?; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Historical Times and Changing Global Contexts; 2.2.1 The Term and Concept of 'Time'
  • 2.2.2 Cosmic Time: Beyond Human Intervention2.2.3 Geological Time: Transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene; 2.2.4 Technical Time: Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions; 2.2.5 Braudel's Three Times of Human History; 2.2.6 Kondradieff's Long Cycles: Periodization of Economic History; 2.2.7 The Ecological Impact of the Great and Global Transformations; 2.3 International Order: Historical-Political Turning Points, Global Transformations and Transitions; 2.4 The Industrial Revolution: Trigger for the Silent Transition in Geological Time
  • 2.4.1 Changes in CO2 Concentration in the Atmosphere2.4.2 Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2013/2014); 2.5 The Global Transformations in the Long Nineteenth Century; 2.6 The Changes of 1914 and 1919: Triggered by World War I; 2.7 The Changes of 1945: Triggered by World War II; 2.8 The Changes of 1989: Peaceful Change and New Wars; 2.9 Was 2014 a Turning Point in World History as 1914 Was?; 2.10 Conclusions; References; 3 Global Ecological Crisis: Structural Violence and the Tyranny of Small Decisions; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Global Ecological Crisis
  • 3.3 Ecological Crisis as Structural Violence3.3.1 A Structural Theory of Imperialism; 3.3.2 Tyranny of Small Decisions; 3.4 Re-orienting Decisions Towards Ecological Peace; 3.5 Conclusion; References; 4 Loving Nature: The Emotional Dimensions of Ecological Peacebuilding; Abstract; 4.1 'Speaking Our Own Truth Is Like Oxygen'; 4.2 Introductory Remarks; 4.3 The Minefields of Separating the Inseparable and Describing the Ineffable; 4.4 An Ecological Approach to Loving; 4.5 From Securely Armoured to Seriously Enamoured?; 4.6 Spaces of Resistance and Spaces of Complicity
  • 4.7 Who Defines and Measures What the Limit Is?4.8 Conclusion; References; Other Literature; 5 Drowning in Complexity? Preliminary Findings on Gender, Peacebuilding and Climate Change in Honduras; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Why Gender?; 5.3 Gender-Relational Peacebuilding; 5.4 Vulnerabilities, Climate Change, Gender and Peacebuilding; 5.5 Honduras-Coffee, Conflict and Climate Change; 5.5.1 Migration; 5.5.2 Forms of Urban and Rural Violence; 5.5.3 Coffee; 5.5.4 Coping with Climate Change, Violence and Migration; 5.6 Conclusion; References
ISBN
  • 9783319309903 ((electronic bk.))
  • 3319309900 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
960760179
Doi
  • 10.1007/978-3-319-30990-3
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