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Globalization and Environmental Challenges pose new security dangers and concerns. In this reference book on global security thinking, 92 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the global reconceptualization of security triggered by the end of the Cold War, globalization and manifold impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century. In 10 parts, 75 chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security; discuss the relationship between security, peace, development and environment;...

In this volume security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers as well as climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean. They also analyse NATO s Mediterranean security dialogue and offer conceptualisations on security and perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The latter half of the book analyses environmental security and conflicts in the Mediterranean and environmental consequences of World...

In this book 60 authors from many disciplines and from 18 countries on five continents examine in ten parts: Moving towards Sustainability Transition; Aiming at Sustainable Peace; Meeting Challenges of the 21st Century: Demographic Imbalances, Temperature Rise and the Climate-Conflict Nexus; Initiating Research on Global Environmental Change, Limits to Growth, Decoupling of Growth and Resource Needs; Developing Theoretical Approaches on Sustainability and Transitions; Analysing National Debates on Sustainability in North America; Preparing Transitions towards a Sustainable...

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 tyranny of small decisions; Katharina Bitzker (Canada) debates the emotional dimensions of ecological peacebuilding through love of nature; Henri Myrttinen (UK)...

This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace Research Association s Ecology and Peace Commission: M.I. Abazie-Humphrey (Nigeria) reviews Nigeria s Home-Grown DDR Programme; C. Christian and H. Speight (USA) analyse Water, Cooperation, and Peace in the Palestinian West Bank; T. Galaviz (Mexico) discusses The Peace Process Mediation Network between the Colombian Government and the April 19th Movement; S.E. Serrano Oswald (Mexico) examines Social Resilience and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Case Study in Mexico; A. F. Rashid (Pakistan) and F. Feng (China) focus on...