Description
Book SynopsisPromoting 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
Table of Contents
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
