Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace: Scientific and Policy Context, Scientific Concepts and Dimensions....Pages 3-66
Contextual Changes in Earth History: From the Holocene to the Anthropocene — Implications for Sustainable Development and for Strategies of Sustainable Transition....Pages 67-88
Paradigm and Praxis Shifts: Transitions to Sustainable Environmental and Sustainable Peace Praxis....Pages 89-104
Transition Studies: Basic Ideas and Analytical Approaches....Pages 105-121
Transformative Science for Sustainability Transitions....Pages 123-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
The Psychological Components of a Sustainable Peace: An Introduction....Pages 139-148
The Essence of Peace? Toward a Comprehensive and Parsimonious Model of Sustainable Peace....Pages 149-160
Development with Sustainable-Engendered Peace: A Challenge during the Anthropocene....Pages 161-185
Sustainable Peace in the Anthropocene: Towards Political Geoecology and Peace Ecology....Pages 187-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Population Imbalances: Their Implications for Population Growth over the Twenty-first Century....Pages 239-265
The Challenge of a 4°C World by 2100....Pages 267-283
The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Pathways, Regional Links, and Case Studies....Pages 285-304
From a Climate of Complexity to Sustainable Peace: Viability Transformations and Adaptive Governance in the Anthropocene....Pages 305-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
The First Decade of Initiatives for Research on the Human Dimensions of Global (Environmental) Change (1986–1995)....Pages 349-358
From HDP to IHDP: Evolution of the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme (1996–2014)....Pages 359-376
From The Limits to Growth to 2052....Pages 377-390
Preparing for Global Transition: Implications of the Work of the International Resource Panel....Pages 391-418
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Sustainability and Complexity: A Few Lessons from Modern Systems Thinking....Pages 421-450
Critical Approaches to Transitions Theory....Pages 451-463
Subnational, Inter-scalar Dynamics: The Differentiated Geographies of Governing Low Carbon Transitions—With Examples from the UK....Pages 465-477
Front Matter....Pages 479-479
Policy, Politics and the Impact of Transition Studies....Pages 481-491
Geopolitics, Ecology and Stephen Harper’s Reinvention of Canada....Pages 493-504
Regime Change, Transition to Sustainability and Climate Change Law in México....Pages 505-523
Front Matter....Pages 525-525
Sustainability Transitions: A Discourse-institutional Perspective....Pages 527-541
New Business Models: Examining the Role of Principles Relating to Transactions and Interactions....Pages 543-557
Sustainable Consumption....Pages 559-570
Sustainable Consumption and Production in China....Pages 571-591
The Eco-restructuring of the Ruhr District as an Example of a Managed Transition....Pages 593-612
Transition towards Sustainable Urbanization in Asia and Africa....Pages 613-630
The Role of University Partnerships in Urban Sustainability Experiments: Evidence from Asia....Pages 631-653
Front Matter....Pages 655-655
Future Global Water, Food and Energy Needs....Pages 657-674
Sustainability Transition in a Vulnerable River Basin in Mexico....Pages 675-704
Sustainability Transition in the Health Sector in Brazil....Pages 705-717
Front Matter....Pages 719-719
Enabling Environments for Sustainable Energy Transitions: The Diffusion of Technology, Innovation and Investment in Low-Carbon Societies....Pages 721-756
Considering a Structural Adjustment Approach to the Low Carbon Transition....Pages 757-773
Drivers and Barriers to Wind Energy Technology Transitions in India, Brazil and South Africa....Pages 775-791
Sustainability Transitions and the Politics of Electricity Planning in South Africa....Pages 793-809
Low Carbon Green Economy: Brazilian Policies and Politics of Energy, 2003–2014....Pages 811-830
Sustainable Electricity Transition in Thailand and the Role of Civil Society....Pages 831-851
Front Matter....Pages 853-853
Governance of Sustainable Development in Knowledge Democracies—Its Consequences for Science....Pages 855-867
Front Matter....Pages 853-853
Discourse and Practice of Transitions in International Policymaking on Resource Efficiency in the EU....Pages 869-884
Front Matter....Pages 885-885
Sustainability Transition with Sustainable Peace: Key Messages and Scientific Outlook....Pages 887-927
Back Matter....Pages 929-1014