Earth at risk in the 21st century: rethinking peace, environment, gender, and human, water, health, food, energy security, and migration : with a foreword by Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser and a preface by Hans Günter Brauch / by Úrsula Oswald Spring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oswald Spring, Úrsula., Author.

Series:

Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, 2509-5579 ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Ecology.

Climatic changes.

Sociology.

Data protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (668 pages).

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.

Summary:

Earth at Risk in the 21st Century offers critical interdisciplinary reflections on peace, security, gender relations, migration and the environment, all of which are threatened by climate change, with women and children affected most. Deep-rooted gender discrimination is also a result of the destructive exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of soils, water, biota and air. In the Anthropocene, the management of human society and global resources has become unsustainable and has created multiple conflicts by increasing survival threats primarily for poor people in the Global South. Alternative approaches to peace and security, focusing from bottom-up on an engendered peace with sustainability, may help society and the environment to be managed in the highly fragile natural conditions of a ‘hothouse Earth’. Thus, the book explores systemic alternatives based on indigenous wisdom, gift economy and the economy of solidarity, in which an alternative cosmovision fosters mutual care between humankind and nature. • Special analysis of risks to the survival of humankind in the 21st century. • Interdisciplinary studies on peace, security, gender and environment related to global environmental and climate change. • Critical reflections on gender relations, peace, security, migration and the environment • Systematic analysis of food, water, health, energy security and its nexus. • Alternative proposals from the Global South with indigenous wisdom for saving Mother Earth.

Contents:

Part I. Texts on Peace, Gender, Environment and Security

Chapter I. Contextualisation on Gender, Peace, Security and Environment

Chapter 2. Contextualisation on Gender, Peace, Security and Environment

Chapter 3. Peace and Sustainability in a Globalised World

Chapter 4. Ahimsa and Human Development: A Different Paradigm for Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution

Chapter 5. On Environmental Security and Global Environmental Change

Chapter 6. Ecology and Threats to Human Survival

Chapter 7. Conflicts, Megalopolis and Hydrodiplomacy

Chapter 8. Peace, Environment and Security: A Gender Perspective from the Third World

Chapter 9. Environmental Management in a Globalised World

Part II. Texts on Gender and Human Security

Chapter 10. Gender Security

Chapter 11. On HUGE Security: Human, Gender and Environmental Security

Chapter 12. On Engendered-sustainable Peace from a Feminist and a Bottom-up Perspective

Chapter 13. A Gender Perspective on Climate Change

Part III. Texts on Water, Health, Food and Energy Security

Chapter 14. On Water Security

Chapter 15. On Health and Water Security

Chapter 16. Agroecology for Food Sovereignty and Security

Chapter 17. Energy Security: Policies and Potentials in Mexico

Part IV. Texts on Migration, the Nexus among Sectorial Securities and Outlook

Chapter 18. Analysing Migration and Environmental-induced Migration with the PEISOR Model

Chapter 19. Environmentally-induced Migration from Bottom-up in Central Mexico

Chapter 20. The Nexus among Water, Soil, Food, Biodiversity and Energy Security

Chapter 21. The Global South facing the Challenges of the Challenges of an Engendered, Sustainable and Peaceful Transition

Index.

ISBN:

3-030-38569-8