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 Gunter 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 "e;tyranny of small decisions"e;; Katharina Bitzker (Canada) debates "e;the emotional dimensions of ecological peacebuilding"e; through love of nature; Henri Myrttinen (UK) analyses "e;preliminary findings on gender, peacebuilding and climate change in Honduras"e; while Ursula Oswald Spring (Mexico) offers a critical review of the policy and scientific nexus debate on "e;the water, energy, food and biodiversity nexus"e;, 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.