Overview
- Reviews multiple influences from Europe, Africa and Latin America on a leading social scientist and activist on gender, development and the environment, aiming at a world characterized by equity, sustainability, peace, and harmony between nature and humans
- Analyzes social and environmental conflicts and peace processes in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico, by addressing the development of underdevelopment, global environmental change, poverty, and the North–South gap
- Focuses on environmental deterioration with a special emphasis on food and water, and proposes systemic changes toward a sustainability transition
- Offers alternative approaches to regional development, food sovereignty, and holistic development processes from a gender perspective
Part of the book series: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice (PAHSEP, volume 17)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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On the Author: My Life, Work and Publications
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Selected Texts of the Author on Methodology, Gender and Peace
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On Food and Society
Keywords
- Peace Processes in Latin America
- Peace and the environment
- Development Worldwide
- Scientific debate on global environmental change
- North-South Relations
- Sustainability Transition
- Gobal Environmental Change
- Food Sovereignty
- Water Availability
- Urgent Global Problems
- climate change impacts
- latin american politics
About this book
• This book reviews multiple influences from Europe, Africa and Latin America on a leading social scientist and activist on gender, development and environment aiming at a world with equity, sustainability, peace and harmony between nature and humans.
• This pioneer volume analyses social and environmental conflicts and peace processes in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico, by addressing the development of under-development, global environmental change, poverty, nutrition and the North-South gap.• This volume focuses on environmental deterioration with a special emphasis on food and water and proposes systemic changes towards a sustainability transitionwith peace, regional development and gender equity.
• This pioneering work offers alternative approaches to regional development, food sovereignty and holistic development processes from a gender perspective.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water
Book Subtitle: With a Foreword by Birgit Dechmann
Authors: Úrsula Oswald Spring
Series Title: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94712-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94711-2Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06903-2Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94712-9Published: 04 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2509-5579
Series E-ISSN: 2509-5587
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 621
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 211 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Feminism, Latin American Politics, Environmental Sociology, Conflict Studies