Overview

This book provides insight into Anthropocene-related studies by IPRA’s Ecology and Peace Commission.

Chapters 1-3

The first three chapters discuss the linkage between disasters and conflict risk reduction, responses to socio-environmental disasters in high-intensity conflict scenarios, and the fragile state of disaster response with a special focus on aid-state-society relations in post-conflict settings.

Chapters 4-5

The two following chapters analyse climate-smart agriculture and a sustainable food system for a sustainable-engendered peace and the ethnology of select indigenous cultural resources for climate change adaptation focusing on the responses of the Abagusii in Kenya.

Case Study

A specific case study focuses on social representations and the family as a social institution in transition in Mexico.

Final Chapter

The last chapter deals with sustainable peace through sustainability transition as transformative science concluding with a peace ecology perspective for the Anthropocene.