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Environmental Sustainability and Resilience: Policies and Practices -- From Expert Negotiations to Fridays for Future: How the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development Shaped Youth led Climate Activism -- Does New Rural Social Pension Insurance Impact on Rural Elderly Individual's Working Hours in China? -- Exploring education interventions towards green transition: The case of Legionowo city -- Spatial Modeling of The Belitung Tarsier's Preferred Habitat on The Belitung Island -- An Assessment of The Impact of Covid Lockdown on Suspended Particulate Matter that Impacts Human Health in Small Towns in India.

Intro -- Preface -- Highlights -- Contents -- Integrating Resilience Thinking into Urban Planning -- 1 Resilience-Oriented Urban Planning -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Resilience and Its Underlying Principles -- 1.3 Integration of Resilience Thinking into Urban Planning -- 1.3.1 Planning Strategy and Vision -- 1.3.2 Public Participation and Capacity Building -- 1.3.3 Equity and Empowerment of Poor and Marginalized Communities -- 1.3.4 Traditional Local Knowledge -- 1.3.5 Institutional Reforms -- 1.3.6 Social Networks and Social Support -- 1.3.7 Dimensional, Spatial, and Temporal Interrelationships and Interlinkages -- 1.3.8 Resilience-Oriented Land Use Planning -- 1.3.9 Resilient Urban Infrastructure -- 1.4 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Resilience Matrix for Comprehensive Urban Resilience Planning -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Challenges of Traditional Risk Analysis -- 2.3 Resilience: A New Way Forward -- 2.4 Development of the Resilience Matrix -- 2.5 Using the Resilience Matrix -- 2.5.1 Case Study 1: The Rockaways, NY -- 2.5.2 Case Study 2: Mobile, AL -- 2.6 Lessons Learned -- References -- 3 Urban Informality and Planning: Challenges to Mainstreaming Resilience in Indian Cities -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Urban Planning -- 3.3 Urban Governance Structure as It Relates to Urban Resilience Planning -- 3.4 Urban Poverty, Informality and Resilience -- 3.5 Case Study: Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan -- 3.5.1 About Ahmedabad -- 3.5.2 Existing Vulnerability and Climate Change Risks in Future -- 3.5.3 Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan -- 3.6 Conclusions and Policy Implications -- References -- 4 Designing a 'Fit-for-Purpose' Approach to Tracking Progress on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Learning from Local Governments in Australia -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Monitoring and Evaluation for Climate Change Adaptation -- 4.2.1 Purpose -- 4.2.2 Approaches.

Introduction: the need for integrated approaches to peace and sustainability -- A state of art review of the peace-sustainability nexus -- Women's Movement towards Building Sustainable Peace in Cross-Cultural Society: the Case of Peace Agenda of Women in the Deep South of Thailand -- Boko Haram Insurgency on North-Eastern Nigeria, how has this influenced food insecurity in the region? -- Exploring the need for an Integrated Conflict Sensitivity Framework in development assistance that contributes to peaceful and sustainable post-conflict societies -- The Components of Peace Agreements and FDI Inflows in -- Post-Civil War Economies: a cross country analysis over the period 1990 to 2019 -- Peace through Community Building Efforts of the Rohingya in Bangladesh -- The Humane yet Ambivalent Attitude Towards Refugees: A Potential Threat to Peace -- The Role of Media and Social Cohesion between Host and the Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar -- Human rights, social security and Ghana's response to the COVID-19 pandemic -- Non-adherence to principles of international law: The bane of environmental insecurity -- Peace, justice and security in Ghana: the need for peace education -- Co-benefits and synergies between food security and eight positive peace pillars -- Concluding remarks.

This book provides new insights into the development of integrated approaches to peace and sustainability in the era of global change. Since the late 1980s, and in order to regulate the increasingly detrimental impacts of humans on the environment, the transition towards sustainability has been high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers alike. Meanwhile, peace considerations have expanded in recent decades to include the varied types and sources of conflict, from inter-state to intra-state conflicts due to various social, political, economic, and environmental factors. Through providing theoretical and empirical insights, this book demonstrates that sustainability and peace as intrinsically interrelated. The book elaborates on the multi-dimensional and constantly evolving concepts of sustainability and peace. In addition, the book contributes to a better understanding of the complex and dynamic interlinkages between peace and sustainability by presenting examples of pathways where sustainability and peace interact considering the different factors and contexts that are constantly shaping and reshaping the conditions for sustainable and peaceful societies.

Bridging Peace and Sustainability amidst Global Transformations -- Toward Synergies between Peace and Sustainability: Using Institutional Research Data to Explore the Diversity of Participants in SDG-related Research -- Interactions between SDG 14 (life below water) and SDG 16 (peace, justice, and strong institutions): A review of co-benefits, synergies, conflicts, and trade-offs -- Ecological Education in Islamic Religious Learning Based on Creative Imagination -- Sustainable peacebuilding through a dignity lens: A case study of caste-based discrimination in Nepal -- Bangsamoro Youth in Peacebuilding: Contributions, Opportunities and Challenges.

Despite broad recognition that peace and sustainability are interrelated, the pathways of their relationship remain ambiguous or nascent at best. We synthesized the literature relevant to the linkages between the two by framing our analysis around the pillars of positive peace and the dimensions of sustainability. Our review reveals that while the existing studies describe the conditions where peace and sustainability considerations interact, empirical evidence of their causal linkages appears limited. Nevertheless, this framing enabled us to consider some of the environmental, social, economic, and institutional conditions that influence the relationship between peace and sustainability. It also shows how our understanding of the peace–sustainability nexus can benefit from integrating environmental sustainability as one of the pillars of positive peace and negative peace as one of the dimensions of sustainability. This review presents opportunities for epistemic communities to navigate the factors and contexts that influence the pursuit of peace and sustainability.

Academics, policymakers, and practitioners have long considered peace and sustainability to be fundamentally linked. However, despite the increased attention paid toward the intersection of peace and sustainability, there is still limited knowledge on the nature of their linkages. To advance the current understanding on the peace–sustainability nexus and inform an integrated research agenda, this paper employs a scientometric analysis of literature to identify publication trends, thematic clusters, and knowledge gaps. Analyzing the publications according to the types of peace, the pillars of positive peace, the dimensions of sustainability, and the SDGs further reveals weak engagement among academic disciplines and across the SDGs. The results of this analysis emphasize the need for future research to focus on underexamined subjects, geographic regions, and sectors to bolster the linkages between peace and sustainability. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s13280-020-01388-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.