
Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace-Sustainability-Climate Security Nexus
Bernard Amadei(Author)
CRC Press
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2023
Book
Hardback
382 pages
978-1-032-56338-1 (ISBN)
Description
Promoting peace and sustainability in human development while accounting for the risks associated with the impact of climate change on society has become more imperative than ever when addressing humanity's challenges of the twenty-first century. There is enough evidence that peace, sustainability, and climate security are entangled with multiple complex interactions and cannot be dealt with in isolation and independently from the environment and the numerous systems with which they interact. Yet, the intersection of peace, sustainability, and climate security or their opposites (i.e., conflict, unsustainability, and climate vulnerability) is rarely articulated with a systemic mindset. A multi-solving nexus approach is more appropriate to capture the complexity and uncertainty of how the three sectors of peace, sustainability, and climate security play a role in community development, the nature of their causal chains, and the feedback on how community development affects the three sectors. Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace-Sustainability-Climate Security Nexus explores the value proposition of using a systems approach, methodology, and tools to comprehend and model that dynamic.
Features of the book:
Explores the interaction between the different components of peace and the relationship between peace, sustainability, and climate security using semi-qualitative and quantitative tools
Explains how climate adaptation and mitigation are related to peace or conflict
Presents generic system dynamics modeling that can be used in different contexts
Features of the book:
Explores the interaction between the different components of peace and the relationship between peace, sustainability, and climate security using semi-qualitative and quantitative tools
Explains how climate adaptation and mitigation are related to peace or conflict
Presents generic system dynamics modeling that can be used in different contexts
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Reference
Illustrations
113 s/w Zeichnungen, 83 s/w Tabellen, 115 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
83 Tables, black and white; 113 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 115 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
769 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-56338-1 (9781032563381)
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Person
Bernard Amadei is a Distinguished Professor and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the Founding Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities. He is also the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders - USA and the Engineers Without Borders - International network co-founder. Among other distinctions, Dr. Amadei is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Construction. He is also a Senior Ashoka Fellow.
Content
1. Introduction 2. The Peace-Sustainability-Climate Nexus 3. Changing the Narrative 4. Systems Thinking 5. Defining the PSC Nexus Landscape 6. Soft Systems Modeling Tools 7. Hard Systems Modeling Tools 8. Systems Archetypes 9. System-Based Methodology 10. Illustrative Examples-Part 1 11. Illustrative Examples-Part 2 12. Case Studies 13. Systemic Interventions 14. Conclusions