Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water: With a Foreword by Birgit Dechmann

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This book aims to initiate among students and other readers critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment, with a special emphasis on North-South relations. This volume offers a selection of the author's research in different parts of the world during 50 years of contributing to an interdisciplinary scientific debate and addressing social answers to urgent global problems. After the author's biography and bibliography, the second part analyses the development processes of several countries in the South that resulted in a dynamic of underdevelopment. The deep-rooted gender discrimination is also reflected in the destructive exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of soils, water and air. Since the beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid-20th century, the management of human society and global resources has been unsustainable and has created global environmental change and multiple conflicts over scarce and polluted resources. Peace and development policies aiming at gender equity and sustainable environmental management, where water and food are crucial for the survival of humankind, focus on systemic alternatives embedded in a path of sustainability transition. • This book reviews multiple influences from Europe, Africa and Latin America on a leading social scientist and activist on gender, development and environment aiming at a world with equity, sustainability, peace and harmony between nature and humans.• This pioneer volume analyses social and environmental conflicts and peace processes in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico, by addressing the development of under-development, global environmental change, poverty, nutrition and the North-South gap.• This volume focuses on environmental deterioration with a special emphasis on food and water and proposes systemic changes towards a sustainability transition with peace, regional development and gender equity.• This pioneering work offers alternative approaches to regional development, food sovereignty and holistic development processes from a gender perspective. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxix Introduction: Key Texts of the Author on Methodology, Development, Regions, Gender and Environment and the Book Structure (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 1-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-24 A Lifelong Learning Process in Gender, Peace, Environment and Development: Autobiographic Reminiscences and Reflections (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 25-102 The Author’s Selective Bibliography (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 103-150 Front Matter ....Pages 151-152 Methodology and Methods in Interdisciplinary Research (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 153-174 Study on Personality Aspects and Drug Abuse (Úrsula Müller-Oswald, R. Ruppen, U. Baumann, J. Angst)....Pages 175-189 Engendered Peace with Sustainability (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 190-199 Peace and Sustainability in a Globalised World (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 201-223 Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 225-241 Front Matter ....Pages 243-244 Underdevelopment as a Consequence of Dependency (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 245-267 Development of Underdevelopment (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 268-284 Regions and Their Evolution (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 285-295 Sustainable Development and Peace (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 296-323 Bridging the Global Divides: The Links Between Latin America and Europe (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 325-335 Front Matter ....Pages 337-338 On Food and Nutrition (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 339-347 Food System and Society: The Mexican Case (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 349-389 Monopolisation of the Food Market in Mexico: The Case of Potatoes (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 391-413 Open Dissipative System of Popular Markets in Tabasco (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 415-437 Food Sovereignty and Green Agriculture (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 439-463 Front Matter ....Pages 465-466 On Ecology and Global Environmental Change (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 467-479 Climate Change and Its Impact on Vulnerable People (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 480-506 Interdisciplinarity in Water Research and Water Models (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 507-541 A Dissipative, Self-organizing and Open Water System: The Case of Tlaxcala (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 542-583 Back Matter ....Pages 585-621