ABSTRACT

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:

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

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

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

chapter 1|29 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|50 pages

The Peace–Sustainability–Climate Nexus

chapter 3|24 pages

Changing The Narrative

chapter 4|18 pages

Systems Thinking

chapter 5|48 pages

Defining the PSC Nexus Landscape

chapter 6|25 pages

Soft Systems Modeling Tools

chapter 7|23 pages

Hard Systems Modeling Tools

chapter 8|17 pages

Systems Archetypes

chapter 9|10 pages

A System-Based Methodology

chapter 10|20 pages

Illustrative Examples— Part 1

chapter 11|21 pages

Illustrative Examples – Part 2

chapter 12|23 pages

Cases Studies

chapter 13|30 pages

Systemic Interventions

chapter 14|8 pages

Conclusions