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...