Sustainability Transition with Sustainable Peace: Key Messages and Scientific Outlook
Publisher: Handbook on Sustainable Transition and Sustainable Peace
Author(s): Ursula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, and Jürgen Scheffran
Date: 2016
Topics: Renewable Resources
This chapter presents the key messages of this Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace found in the previous texts by the sixty authors, arranged into ten parts. They focus on I) moving towards sustainability transition; II) aiming for sustainable peace; III) meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century: demographic imbalances, temperature rise and the climate–conflict nexus; IV) initiating research on global environmental change, the limits to growth, and the decoupling of growth and resource needs; V) developing theoretical approaches to sustainability and transitions; VI) analysing national debates about sustainability in North America; VII) preparing transitions towards a sustainable economy and society, production and consumption and urbanization; VIII) examining sustainability transitions in the water, food and health sectors from Latin American and European perspectives; IX) preparing sustainability transitions in the energy sector; and X) relying on international, regional and national governance for strategies and policies leading towards sustainability transition. This chapter proposes moving from disciplinary perspectives towards a transdisciplinary and anticipatory transformative approach. It points to research deficits and maps future research needs on ‘sustainability transition’, on ‘sustainable peace’, and on the linkages between both discourses, so that we can move from knowledge to action, and towards governance strategies, policies and measures aiming at Sustainability Transition with Sustainable Peace. Four examples are used to briefly illustrate this transformative scientific approach towards proactive policies