Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene

This book provides insight into Anthropocene-related studies by IPRA's Ecology and Peace Commission. The first three chapters discuss the linkage between disasters and conflict risk reduction, responses to socio-environmental disasters in high-intensity conflict scenarios and the fragile state of disaster response with a special focus on aid-state-society relations in post-conflict settings. The two following chapters analyse climate-smart agriculture and a sustainable food system for a sustainable-engendered peace and the ethnology of select indigenous cultural resources for climate change adaptation focusing on the responses of the Abagusii in Kenya. A specific case study focuses on social representations and the family as a social institution in transition in Mexico, while the last chapter deals with sustainable peace through sustainability transition as transformative science concluding with a peace ecology perspective for the Anthropocene.

List of contents

Introduction.- Advancing Disasters and Conflict Risk Reduction.- Responding to Socio-environmental Disasters in High-Intensity Conflict Scenarios: Challenges and Legitimation Strategies.- The Fragile State of Disaster Response: Understanding Aid-State-Society Relations in Post-Conflict Settings.- Climate-smart agriculture and a sustainable food system for a sustainable-engendered peace.- Ethnology of Select Indigenous Cultural Resources for Climate Change Adaptation: Responses of the Abagusii of Kenya.- Social Representations and the Family as a Social Institution in Transition in Mexico.- Sustainable Peace through Sustainability Transition as Transformative Science: A Peace Ecology Perspective in the Anthropocene.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hans Günter Brauch (Editor), Andrew E. Collins (Editor), Úrsula Oswald Spring (Editor), Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2018
• EAN: 9783319975610
• ISBN: 978-3-31-997561-0
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 14 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 406 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 246 p. 21 illus., 20 illus. in color.
• Series: The Anthropocene: Politik-Economics-Society-Science; The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; B, Peace, Climate Change, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sustainable Development, International Relations, Agriculture, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Earth System Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Agricultural science, Natural disasters, Natural Hazards, Peace studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution