Expanding Peace Ecology: Peace, Security, Sustainability, Equity and Gender - Perspectives of IPRA's Ecology and Peace Commission

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.

List of contents

Expanding Peace Ecology: Peace, Security, Sustainability, Equity, and Gender.- From Climate Change and Security Impacts to Sustainability Transition: Two Policy Debates and Scientific Discourses.- 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 Experiences.- Beyond the Surface: The Deeper Challenge in Environmental Education-Transforming Consciousness Through Peace Environmental Education.- Building Peace by Rebuilding Community Through Women in Japan.- 'Culture of Peace' from an Ability and Disability Studies Lens.- Converting the Forces of Nature into a Cultural Force: An Invitation to Pursue the Study of Satoyamas.

About the author

Hans Günter Brauch, Adj. Prof. (PD) at the Free University of Berlin, chairman of AFES-PRESS, senior fellow at UNU-EHS in Bonn and editor of this series; he publishes on security and environment issues.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hans G. Brauch (Editor), Hans Günter Brauch (Editor), Keith G Tidball (Editor), Han Günter Brauch (Editor), Hans Günter Brauch (Editor), Ursula Oswald Spring (Editor), Úrsula Oswald Spring (Editor), Keith Tidball (Editor), Keith G Tidball (Editor), Keith G. Tidball (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2013
• EAN: 9783319007281
• ISBN: 978-3-31-900728-1
• No. of pages: 219
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 14 mm x 238 mm
• Weight: 353 g
• Illustrations: VI, 219 p. 33 illus., 27 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace; Peace and Security Studies; SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace; Peace and Security Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law