Handbook on sustainability transition and sustainable peace /

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Imprint:Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (xxxi, 1014 pages) : color illustrations
Language:English
Series:Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace, 1865-5793 ; volume 10
Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace ; v. 10.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11265577
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Other authors / contributors:Brauch, Hans Günter, 1947- editor.
Oswald, Ursula, 1946- editor.
Grin, John, editor.
Scheffran, Jürgen, editor.
ISBN:9783319438849
3319438840
9783319438825
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 23, 2016).
Summary:In this book 60 authors from many disciplines and from 18 countries on Ơ̐ℓve 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 Climateℓ́ℓConƠ̐ℓict 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 Economy and Society, Production and Consumption and Urbanization; Examining Sustainability Transitions in the Water, Food and Health Sectors from Latin American and European Perspectives; Preparing Sustainability Transitions in the Energy Sector; and Relying on Transnational, International, Regional and National Governance for Strategies and Policies Towards Sustainability Transition. This volume is based on workshops held in Mexico (2012) and in the US (2013), on a winter school at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (2013), and on commissioned chapters. The workshop in Mexico and the publication were supported by two grants by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). All texts in this book were peer-reviewed by scholars from all parts of the world.