Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace (eBook)

Hans Günter Brauch, Adj. Prof. (PD), Free University of Berlin (ret.); chairman of Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS); editor of five English language book series published by SpringerNature; works on peace, security and environment.   Úrsula Oswald Spring, Research Professor, Center for Regional Multidisciplinary Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (CRIM–UNAM); former Minister of Ecological Development in the state of Morelos and lead author of the IPCC.   John Grin, Professor of Policy Science, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam; Co-Director (with M. Glasius) of the Programme Group Transnational Configura-tions, Conflicts and Governance, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR).    Jürgen Scheffran, Professor, Institute of Geography and Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Germany; head of the Re¬search Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC) in the CliSAP Cluster of Excellence.

Material and Immaterial Cultural Transformation.- A Social Contract for Sustainability.- The Climate Paradox: Policy Declarations and Lack of Implementation; The G-20: Security & Peace Impacts.- Persistence and Transformation of Mindsets: The Canadian Case.- Theories of Transitions to Sustainable Development: Approach of the Dutch Knowledge network of Systems Innovation.- Sustainability transitions in transnational society: a governance per¬spective.- Sustainability transitions.- Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity.- Transgovernance: The Quest for Governance of Sustainable Development.- Food and Stability: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Connections.- Politics of Low Carbon Transitions – Protected niches, actor networks, narratives and changing contexts.- Complex systems and sustainability.- Corporate governance &  sustainability or Corporate  Governance and Transition to Sustainability.- Sustainability Transition: Change of the Scientific Worldview?- Sustainable Peace during a Sustainable Transition Process.- Project on a River Basin in Morelos: Unsustainable Water Management, Disasters and a Project for a Sustainable Transition.- Future pathways for Mexico and Indonesia: The role of system dynamics for sustainability transition.- The Diffusion of Innovations for the Sustainability Transition.- Cascades and Transitions in Human-Environment Interactions.- Social Representations Theory and Sustainability Transitions.- Paradigm and Praxis Shifts: transitions to sustainable environmental and sustainable peace praxis.- Planetary Boundaries and Failure of Rio + 20.- Sustainability in Divided Brazil:  Who Is The More Powerful Between Conservatives and Reformist?- Brazilian Plans and Perspectives on the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy.