Environmental Security Concepts Revisited During the First Three Phases (1983-2006)

Dalby, Simon; Brauch, Hans Günter; Spring, Úrsula Oswald

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“…The index differs from other karst management approaches in that it seeks to address issues of environmental sustainability, as defined by the Brundtland Report and the UN Millennium Goals (Dalby et al, 2009;United National Development Program, 2003). Several specific variables are measured within each of the three domains that can be mapped and assessed with a GIS.…”

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“…However, the publication Leopold's Sand County Almanac (1949) and Carson's Silent Spring (1962) brought together the philosophical value of nature with the need to change human practices to preserve the planet. With the advent of the UN's Brandt and Bruntland reports in the 1970-80s, sustainability has become a cornerstone of a more ecocentric worldview of environmental management (Dalby et al, 2009). The Brundtland report presented one of the first definitions of sustainability, characterizing it as ''development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'' (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987).…”

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A sustainability index for karst environments

Brinkmann¹,

Beynen²

2012

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With growing populations and ever increasing pressure on resources, the need to live sustainably with our environment has increased in significance. When considering such anthropogenic pressures, karst landscapes are as vulnerable, if not more so, than any other environment. Such vulnerability arises from the rapid transit times of percolating water, the poor filtering ability of carbonate bedrock, and the highly specialized biota of subterranean karst. The Karst Sustainability Index (KSI) was created as a standardized metric of sustainable development practices in karst settings. The KSI uses predetermined targets to ascertain the overall sustainability of a karst region. Indicators are designed to incorporate common measures of sustainability for the three domains of social, environmental, and economic resource use. Benchmarking the current state of karst environments allows the comparison of sustainability practices temporally and spatially to highlight areas where remedial policies or actions are needed. This is the first index to incorporate the emerging field of environmental sustainability with karst landscape assessment. To test the applicability of the KSI, a study was undertaken in the Tampa Bay Metropolitan Area, which encompasses four counties that are entirely karst. The TBMA was found to be progressing towards the sustainable management of karst resources, and the KSI provided a robust measure of sustainability.

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A sustainability index for karst environments

Brinkmann¹,

Beynen²

2012

JCKS

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“…A third pillar analyzes the capitalist development linked to environmental deterioration and conflicts generated by pollution and abuse of natural resources, where climate change disasters [20] and global environmental change [52] have allowed a systemic analysis of the complexity of the intervening socioenvironmental factors, going beyond environmental care and restoration. In a fourth phase, Dalby et al [53] evaluated the emerging factors of conflict and reconciliation, where social and environmental vulnerabilities are limiting the adaptation processes in the face of increasing and more adverse socioenvironmental conditions of risks, and where dominant interests in mining and land use change have accelerated the destruction of natural resources, especially water for human consumption. Crutzen [17] has proposed a new era of Earth's history, the Anthropocene, where no more natural phenomena (Holocene), but human activities are producing environmental destruction, the loss of ecosystem services, and the pollution of air, soil, and water.…”

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Decolonized Human, Gender, and Environmental: HUGE Security and Peace

Oswald‐Spring¹

2023

Global Peace and Security

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This article explores diverse peace paradigms from negative and realist to liberal, structural, and cosmopolitan peace. The liberal focus in a multi-diverse world with an occidental cosmopolitan pathway did not prevent global and regional wars, such as the present between Russia and Ukraine. The text focuses on a methodology of an open, dissipative, and self-regulating system on a decolonized bottom-up approach, where indigenous communities, representing 5% of the world population, conserve 80% of the remaining biodiversity. Women produce also half the food for their families and communities. Ethnic, economic, and gender discrimination are related to patriarchy that has devastated societies and the environment. Alternative HUGE (human, gender, and environmental) security is caring for vulnerable social groups and destroyed environments. Women’s care economy, subsistence production, sorority, and social solidarity from the bottom up are transforming violence inside society and families, centering on well-being and not capital accumulation. Reinforcing regional autonomy, gender, and indigenous equity also reduces the impacts of environmental footprints. This decolonized understanding represents an alternative model of the way of life in the Global South, based on engendered and sustainable peacebuilding for a sustainable future.

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“…Oswald (2020) merged crucial feminist approaches in her gender security concept, including empiric, epistemic, postmodern and viewpoint feminism with identity building, social representations and the organization of social movements to unveil the deep roots of violent, exploitive, and discriminative patriarchy. The conceptualization of environmental security (Dalby et al , 2009) evolved from the threats of the military-industrial-scientific complex understanding, related to the realist military and political security (Hobbes, 1668) toward conflicts and wars related to resource scarcity and even abundance (regions with irrigation). Environmental security analyzed further the complex interrelated cascading effects and its negative interaction between the human and the environmental system, such as loss of ecosystem services and biodiversity (CBD, 1992), climate change (IPCC, 2013, 2014; 2019) and global environmental change (Brauch et al , 2009).…”

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Decolonizing peace with a gender perspective

Oswald‐Spring

2022

JACPR

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Purpose This paper aims to analyze a decolonized peace with gender perspective. Liberal democracies had consolidated on conquest, slavery, racism, sexism, colonialism, raw material extraction and female exploitation. Additional burdens came from neoliberal globalization with the massive burning of fossil oil, changing the Earth's history from the Holocene toward the Anthropocene. Multiple nexus between the human and environmental system requires an epistemology from the Global South. The paper explores alternative peace paradigms enabling poor and exploited people to overcome the destructive outcomes of patriarchal violence and extractivism. Regionally and locally, they are experimenting with just, safe, equal and sustainable alternatives of free societies. Design/methodology/approach The nexus approach focuses on system efficiency, internal and external feedbacks and allows decision-making processes with stronger cross-sectoral coordination and multi-level governance. It includes the understanding of the policy agenda and the political actors at different levels, explaining the discrimination of gender from local to global. The analysis establishes complex relations between theory and political actions, due that all actions are inherently mediated by gender. A key focus is a relationship and the outcomes of policies, where communication and collaboration at the local level grant efficient peaceful resource management with gender equity. Findings An engendered-sustainable peace approach is culturally decentralized and may offer alternatives to the ongoing destruction process of neoliberal corporatism and violence. Drastic systemic change requires massive changes from bottom-up and top-down before 2030–2050. Global solidarity among all excluded people, especially women and girls, promotes from childhood an engendered-sustainable peace-building process, where positive feedbacks may reduce the tipping points on Earth and among humankind. Engendered-sustainable peace can mitigate the upcoming conflicts and catastrophes, limiting the negative feedbacks from abusive, selfish and destructive corporations. A greater self-regulating sustainable system with a HUGE-security could promote a decolonized, engendered and sustainable peace for everybody. Research limitations/implications The interconnected risks are cascading across different domains, where systemic challenges have intensified conflicts and violence, due to uncertainty, instability and fragility. Cascading effects not only demand prevention for sudden disruptions (hurricanes, floods) but also for slow-ongoing processes (drought, sea-level rise, lack of water availability, etc.), which are equally or more disruptive. Women suffer differently from disasters and are prone to greater impacts on their life and livelihood. An engendered peace is limited by the deep engrained patriarchal system. Only a culture of peace with gender recognition may grant future peace and also the sustainable care of ecosystems. Practical implications The Global South is exploring alternative ways to overcome the present violent and destructive globalization by promoting deep engrained indigenous values of Aymaras’ living well, the shell model of commanding by obeying of the Zapatistas or Bhutan’s Happiness Index. Globally, critical women and men are promoting subsistence agriculture, solidarity or gift economy, where local efforts are restoring the equilibrium between humans and nature. An engendered-sustainable peace is limiting the destructive impacts of the Anthropocene, climate change and ongoing pandemics. Social implications An engendered-sustainable peace is culturally decentralized and offers alternatives to the ongoing destruction process of neoliberal corporatism, climate change and violence. The text explores how to overcome the present hybrid warfare with alternative HUGE security and peace from the bottom-up. Regional reinforcement of food security, safe water management, local jobs and a concordian economy for the most vulnerable may change the present exploitation of nature and humankind. Growing solidarity with people affected by disasters is empowering women and girls and dismantling from the bottom-up, the dominant structures of violence and exploitation. Originality/value The military-industrial-scientific corporate complex and the exploitation of women, men and natural resources, based on patriarchy, has produced climate change, poverty and global pandemics with millions of unnecessary deaths and suffering. A doughnut engendered peace looking from the outside and inside of the system of globalization and environmental destruction proposes to overcome the growth addiction by a growth agnostic society. Engendered peace explores alternative and sustainable values that go beyond the dominant technological changes. It includes a culturally, politically and institutionally ingrained model where everybody is a participant, reinforcing an engendered-sustainable peace and security for everybody.

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Environmental Security Concepts Revisited During the First Three Phases (1983-2006)

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A sustainability index for karst environments

A sustainability index for karst environments

Decolonized Human, Gender, and Environmental: HUGE Security and Peace

Decolonizing peace with a gender perspective

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