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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

Introducción, preguntas y metas del libro / Úrsula Oswald-Spring, Serena Eréndira Serrano-Oswald, Hans Günter Brauch -- Teorías sobre la migración / Serena Eréndira Serrano-Oswald, Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald-Spring -- Metodología y contextualización del área de estudio / Úrsula Oswald-Spring -- Modelo de análisis de migración inducida ambientalmente / Úrsula Oswald-Spring, Serena Eréndira Serrano-Oswald -- Un futuro sustentable con calidad de vida: ¿una utopía, una realidad o una necesidad en Morelos? / Úrsula Oswald-Spring -- Características sociodemográficas y migratorias de Morelos, sus municipios y las localidades estudiadas / Teresita E. Ruíz-Pantoja, Carlos Lemus-Ramírez -- Vulnerabilidad ambiental y social en el contexto microrregional / María Teresa Mónica Cruz-Rivera, Úrsula Oswald-Spring

In Costa Chica, the southeastern sector of the Mexican state of Guerrero, with its principal center in Acapulco, strong migratory currents have taken place from the interior toward the coast. The migrants are mainly poor Indians, offering cheap underqualified labor. In some instances, a racial dimension contributes to an economically based tension between the migrants & permanent coastal inhabitants. The poor peasant is faced with two realistic alternatives: work as a sharecropper, or seasonal employment in the tourist-oriented industry of Acapulco. The economic condition of the peasant is illustrated by a study of the farmers of the Coalan region, which shows the capitalist production system gradually supplanting the small farmers & orienting them toward the creation of ever-new consumer needs. As a result, the farmers have few choices left. Deprived of land, subject to manipulation by their own leaders who are promoting rapid capitalist development of the region, they are resigned to pressure for increased productivity & more intense exploitation. In this process, traditional forms of peasant life are dissolving, & a new proletarian consciousness is being developed. S. Karganovic.

Introduction -- Historical Times and Turning Points in a Turbulent Century: 1914, 1945, 1989 and 2014? -- Global Ecological Crisis: Structural violence and the tyranny of small decisions -- Loving Nature: The Emotional Dimensions of Ecological Peacebuilding -- Drowning in complexity? Preliminary findings on addressing gender, peacebuilding and climate change in Honduras.