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Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water

With a Foreword by Birgit Dechmann

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Úrsula Oswald Spring

    1. Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxix
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  2. Introduction: Key Texts of the Author on Methodology, Development, Regions, Gender and Environment and the Book Structure

    • Úrsula Oswald Spring
    Pages 1-22

  3. On the Author: My Life, Work and Publications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-24
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    2. A Lifelong Learning Process in Gender, Peace, Environment and Development: Autobiographic Reminiscences and Reflections

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 25-102

    3. The Author’s Selective Bibliography

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 103-150

  4. Selected Texts of the Author on Methodology, Gender and Peace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-152
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    2. Methodology and Methods in Interdisciplinary Research

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 153-174

    3. Study on Personality Aspects and Drug Abuse

      • Úrsula Müller-Oswald, R. Ruppen, U. Baumann, J. Angst
      Pages 175-189

    4. Engendered Peace with Sustainability

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 190-199

    5. Peace and Sustainability in a Globalised World

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 201-223

    6. Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 225-241

  5. On Development and Regions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-244
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    2. Underdevelopment as a Consequence of Dependency

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 245-267

    3. Development of Underdevelopment

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 268-284

    4. Regions and Their Evolution

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 285-295

    5. Sustainable Development and Peace

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 296-323

    6. Bridging the Global Divides: The Links Between Latin America and Europe

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 325-335

  6. On Food and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-338
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    2. On Food and Nutrition

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 339-347

    3. Food System and Society: The Mexican Case

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 349-389
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About this book

This book aims to initiate among students and other readers critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment, with a special emphasis on North-South relations. This volume offers a selection of the author's research in different parts of the world during 50 years of contributing to an interdisciplinary scientific debate and addressing social answers to urgent global problems. After the author's biography and bibliography, the second part analyses the development processes of several countries in the South that resulted in a dynamic of underdevelopment. The deep-rooted gender discrimination is also reflected in the destructive exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of soils, water and air. Since the beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid-20th century, the management of human society and global resources has been unsustainable and has created global environmental change and multiple conflicts over scarce and polluted resources. Peace and development policies aiming at gender equity and sustainable environmental management, where water and food are crucial for the survival of humankind, focus on systemic alternatives embedded in a path of sustainability transition.


•  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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  • Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Úrsula Oswald Spring

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