Overview
- Addresses anthropogenic effects of climate change
- Prevents violence
- Shows the pathways to sustainable development
Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 37)
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Keywords
- Anthropogenic climate change
- Socio-political violence
- Human security
- Peace building
- Enviormental Anthropology
About this book
This book explores the theoretical contribution of peace ecology to the understanding and practice of environmental and conventional peacebuilding. It integrates environmental questions and factors that drive socio-political violence and climate change-induced violence in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Anthropocene.
· It demonstrates how international peace and global security are no longer solely grounded in conventional peacebuilding that has evolved from liberal to democratic peace theories, but rather in the complex, critical and synergic relations between peace studies and environmental studies.
· It provides a pluridisciplinary body of knowledge that emphasises the need for food security, social climate, social good, social capital and sustainable development at the age of climate change and climate wars.· It underscores the potential of peace ecology to reduce the Earth systems' vulnerability, to mitigate anthropogenic global warming's consequences on humanity, the ecosystem and biodiversity.
· It yields various models of peacebuilding, conflict-sensitive and climate-sensitive adaptation strategies to enhance the African Region’s security and stability.
Finally, this volume argues that planetary boundaries framework remains the safer space within which human and sustainable development can be pursued and attained, and future generations to thrive. A comprehensive and international response to socio-political violence and climate-change induced violence should take into account the vulnerability of individual countries, regions and the global world in order to achieve the dreams of a better future; that makes this book a cutting-edge scholarly work.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Norman Chivasa is currently a lecturer in the Department of Peace, Security and Society at the University of Zimbabwe after serving as a Research Associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Postdoctoral Fellow at Durban University of Technology (DUT), South Africa. He holds a Masters in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a PhD in Management Sciences Specialising in Public Administration: Peace Studies, from DUT. His research focuses on community peacebuilding and informal infrastructures for peace
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Socio-political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Anthropocene
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Peace Ecology and Sustainable Development
Editors: Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala, Norman Chivasa
Series Title: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48374-5Due: 10 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48375-2Due: 10 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2367-4024
Series E-ISSN: 2367-4032
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 719
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour