Introduction; Chapter One Scarcity, Abundance, and Structural Peace; Chapter Two The Triumph of the Commons; Chapter Three Back to Basics; Chapter Four Free at Last; Chapter Five Flirting with Disaster; Chapter Six Resource Conflicts, or Sustainable Collaborations?; Chapter Seven Transborder Peace Ecology; Chapter Eight Collective Reenchantment; conclusion Restabilizing the Habitat, and Ourselves;
Randall Amster
"A timely reminder that ecological literacy and peace studies
provide a necessary hope for all humanity and a vehicle into which
we can channel that hope into concrete action."-- Adrian Fielder,
Colorado Mountain College, in The Journal of Sustainability
Education 10"Shining a critical light on current issues while, at
the same time, offering positive examples that integrate peaceful
human-human efforts with just human-environment (ecological)
outcomes … it is this balance between the practical and the utopian
that renders Peace Ecology so compelling."-- Avi Brisman, Eastern
Kentucky University, in Contemporary Justice Review 19:3"Not just a
scholarly critique of war, militarism, and neoliberal capitalism.
It is also a profound "wake up call to action" and an activist
manual for nurturing nonviolent, peaceful and sustainable
living."-- Alberto Gomes, La Trobe University, in Peace Review
28:3
"Peace Ecology is a thorough contribution to the peace and the
environment/ecology literature that creatively spans multiple
disciplines and content areas...A useful resource for students and
researchers."
—CHOICE
"This book bridges divides that very much need to be bridged
between peace activism and peace academia, and between peace
advocacy and environmentalism. This is, in fact, a peace book for
deep environmentalists and an environmental book for deep peace
advocates."
—War Is A Crime.org
“Randall Amster lays bare the intimate connections between the war
system and global environmental degradation, but rather than
leaving us in despair he shows that these destructive relationships
can be reversed, leading not only to our survival (currently in
doubt) but to our flourishing in balance with a healthy
biosphere—which is, indeed, our only hope.”
—Kent Shifferd, author of From War to Peace: A Guide to the Next
Hundred Years
“In Peace Ecology, Randall Amster delivers the urgent message that
issues of peace and nonviolence are inseparable from those of
ecological integrity and sustainability. He warns of the growing
dangers of resource wars and scarcity-induced conflict, but at the
same time offers a vision of hope, grounded in our basic human
capacities for solidarity, cooperation, and caring concern for our
home planet and our home places. Peace Ecology is an admirable
synthesis of crucial information, thoughtful reflection, and
much-needed inspiration.”
—John Clark, Loyola University–New Orleans
“The critique of war and the continuum of structural violence in
everyday life illuminate the path toward a more sustainable
worldview and the creation of an ecology of peace. Randall Amster’s
book Peace Ecology puts us on a transdisciplinary road in thought
and action, moving us toward a peace that is much larger than a
world without war.”
—Dennis Lum, Fort Lewis College
“Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, Peace Ecology charts a
positive way forward in these perilous times of climate change,
persistent militarism, and growing inequality. In lucid prose, and
based on significant research, Randall Amster provides an important
antidote to apocalyptic despair. This book is must-reading in peace
and environmental studies—and far beyond.”
—Betsy Hartmann, Hampshire College
“Randall Amster applies his integrative mind to questions of war
and environmental destruction, along the way drawing lines of
connection to food sovereignty, community-building, justice, peace,
and ecological well-being. The result is a refreshing—and
bold—invitation to be proactive before the challenges that threaten
human survival.”
—Chellis Glendinning, author of Off the Map: An Expedition Deep
into Empire and the Global Economy
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