ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a unique and personal account from the pastoralist Van Gujjars ethnic community based on periods of field work stretched. In the search for replacement of fossil energy sources there is a global surge for batteries producing electrical energy for driving all types of vehicles and also aircrafts in the near future. The majority of activities in human societies are not only significantly non-sustainable but often outright destructive for maintenance of the ecosystem functions and thus threatening for human survival. Environmental conflicts cannot always be resolved, but there are a number of ways to transform conflicts and sometimes the process of conflict transformation can be a pathway towards transition to another state of sustainability. The sustainability concept is highly normative as well as greatly contested, and thus opens for a number of different interpretations and even different discourses. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book.
