Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology perspective. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Juliet Bennett, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald, editors.
• Other Names: Brauch, Hans Günter, 1947-; Oswald, Ursula, 1946-; Bennett, Juliet; Serrano Oswald, Serena Eréndira
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (204 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 333.7; Human ecology; Environmental policy; Sustainable development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General; Environmental policy; Human ecology; Sustainable development; Environment; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Peace Studies; Ecosystems; Sustainable Development; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319309903; 3319309900
• Related ISBNs: 9783319309897; 3319309897
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 11, 2016).
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