Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology perspective the present book
offers peer-reviewed texts that build on the expanding field of peace ecology and applies this
concept to global environmental challenges in the Anthropocene. Hans Günter Brauch (Germany)
offers a typology of time and turning points in the 20th century Juliet Bennett (Australia)
discusses the global ecological crisis resulting from a tyranny of small decisions Katharina
Bitzker (Canada) debates the emotional dimensions of ecological peacebuilding through love of
nature Henri Myrttinen (UK) analyses preliminary findings on gender peacebuilding and climate
change in Honduras while Úrsula Oswald Spring (Mexíco) offers a critical review of the policy
and scientific nexus debate on the water energy food and biodiversity nexus reflecting on
security in Mexico. In closing Brauch discusses whether strategies of sustainability
transition may enhance the prospects for achieving sustainable peace in the Anthropocene.
