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Introduction: Key Texts of the Author on Methodology, Development, Regions, Gender and Environment and the Book Structure

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Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water

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These chapters offer reflections on my scientific work and my life experience, first in post-colonial Africa in the 1960s, later the critical psychological re-elaboration of several traumatic experiences in Africa during the student revolt in Europe in 1968 and finally my field research, political activities and social involvement with bottom-up women and peasant movements in Mexico, Latin America, India, Thailand and North Africa. This chapter links the social and natural sciences, climate studies and humanities from a gender perspective. Later, based on my involvement and experience with bottom-up social movements, I address the environmental care for and restoration of ecosystem services for socially vulnerable people in particular.

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Oswald Spring, Ú. (2019). Introduction: Key Texts of the Author on Methodology, Development, Regions, Gender and Environment and the Book Structure. In: Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94712-9_1

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