Handbook on sustainability transition and sustainable peace / Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, John Grin, Jürgen Scheffran, editors ; with forewords by Heide Hackmann, Hoesung Lee, and Paul Raskins.
Contributor(s): Brauch, Hans Gunter [edt] | Oswald, Ursula [edt] | Grin, John [edt] | Scheffran, Jurgen [edt].
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BookSeries: Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace: v. 10.Publisher: New York, NY : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016Description: xxxi, 1004 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9783319438825.Subject(s): SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | PEACEBUILDING | ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTSOnline resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Global Environmental Change and Sustainability Transition; Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals; The Larger Challenge; Contents; Acknowledgments; Permissions and Credits; Part I Moving towards Sustainability Transition; Chapter 1 Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace: Scientific and Policy Context, Scientific Concepts and Dimensions; Chapter 2 Contextual Changes in Earth History: From the Holocene to the Anthropocene
Implications for Sustainable Development and for Strategies of Sustainable Transition.
Chapter 3 Paradigm and Praxis Shifts: Transitions to Sustainable Environmental and Sustainable Peace PraxisChapter 4 Transition Studies: Basic Ideas and Analytical Approaches; Chapter 5 Transformative Science for Sustainability Transitions; 1 Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace: Scientific and Policy Context, Scientific Concepts and Dimensions; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction and Overview of the Chapter; 1.2 Purpose and Objectives of this Book ; 1.3 The Global Environmental Context ; 1.3.1 "We are in the Anthropocene"
1.3.2 Changing Interactions between the Human and Earth System in the Anthropocene1.3.3 Global Environmental Change and its Physical and Societal Impacts in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; 1.3.4 Demographic Change and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century ; 1.3.4.1 Impacts of Population Growth and Urbanization; 1.3.4.2 Anthropogenic Global Environmental Change; 1.3.5 Climate Change Impacts and Policy Responses ; 1.3.5.1 Physical and Societal Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change ; 1.3.5.2 Towards Climate-Resilient Pathways and Sustainable Development.
1.3.5.3 Towards the Paris Agreement1.3.6 Biodiversity Loss; 1.3.7 Soil Degradation, Erosion and Desertification ; 1.3.8 Water Degradation, Scarcity and Stress; 1.3.9 Food Scarcity and Hunger; 1.3.10 Gender Impacts of Global Environmental and Climate Change ; 1.4 Impacts of Different Economic Development Paths; 1.5 Integrating the Global Trends; 1.5.1 The IPCC: Climate Change Impacts for Human Security; 1.5.2 The Scientific and Political Nexus Debates ; 1.6 Three Key Concepts: Sustainable Development, Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace.
1.6.1 Term and Concept: 'Sustainable' and 'Sustainability' 1.6.2 Terms and Concepts: Transition and Transformation ; 1.6.3 Ahimsa, Peace with Nature and Sustainable Peace ; 1.7 Alternative Approach to Sustainability Transition; 1.7.1 Origins and Conceptual Evolution since the 1970s ; 1.7.2 Evolution of the US Debate on Sustainability Transition ; 1.7.3 The Dutch Scientific Research Initiative; 1.7.4 A German Scientific Advisory Report on a 'Social Contract for Sustainability' ; 1.7.5 Policy Debates on Green Growth and Decarbonization.
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