Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace–Sustainability–Climate Security Nexus

Bernard Amadei, Mohammad Noori

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032563381
• eBook ISBN: 9781000992038
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Management
• Index: Biological Sciences

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:

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• Explores the interaction between the different components of peace and the relationship between peace, sustainability, and climate security using semi-qualitative and quantitative tools;

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• Explains how climate adaptation and mitigation are related to peace or conflict;

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• Presents generic system dynamics modeling that can be used in different contexts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The Peace–Sustainability–Climate Nexus
• Chapter 3 Changing The Narrative
• Chapter 4 Systems Thinking
• Chapter 5 Defining the PSC Nexus Landscape
• Chapter 6 Soft Systems Modeling Tools
• Chapter 7 Hard Systems Modeling Tools
• Chapter 8 Systems Archetypes
• Chapter 9 A System-Based Methodology
• Chapter 10 Illustrative Examples—Part 1
• Chapter 11 Illustrative Examples – Part 2
• Chapter 12 Cases Studies
• Chapter 13 Systemic Interventions
• Chapter 14 Conclusions
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C: Input Data for the Examples in Chapter 10
• Appendix D: Input Data for the Examples in Chapter 11
• Appendix E: The PSC5 Model
• Appendix F: The Syrian Conflict—Model PSC6
• Index