Briefs & Development

Ethno-Religious Conflict and Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Source: HTS Theological Studies, 2020

Author(s): Peace N. Ngwoke and Ezichi A. Ituma

Countries: Nigeria

Topics: Conflict Causes, Conflict Prevention, Cooperation, Renewable Resources

Added: 07/02/2021

This article examines the extent to which ethno-religious conflicts have affected sustainable development in Nigeria. The destruction of lives and property by reckless ethnic and religious extremists has been a challenging key factor to sustainable development in Nigeria. This article aims to reflect on the ethno-religious conflicts in Nigeria from...

Why Environmental Conflicts Can Be Productive: The Conflict over the Environmental Restoration of the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin in Buenos Aires

Source: Equilibri, 2020

Author(s): María Gabriela Merlinsky

Countries: Argentina

Topics: Conflict Causes, Governance, Renewable Resources

Added: 07/02/2021

The purpose of this paper is exposing the authors' approach in the study of environmental conflict, and show illustrations from their research work on the conflict over the environmental restoration of the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin. The paper refers to the territorial effects of the conflict and seeks to raise some...

Re-Imagining Environmental Governance: Gold Dredge Mining vs Territorial Health in the Colombian Amazon

Source: Geoforum, 2020

Author(s): Camilo Torres and Gerard Verschoor

Countries: Colombia

Topics: Conflict Prevention, Extractive Resources, Governance, Land, Renewable Resources

Added: 07/02/2021

This article describes and analyses an encounter in the Colombian Amazon between Indigenous practices and arrangements to manage their environment and the conservation policies of the State. Indigenous peoples understand their world as populated by powerful human and nonhuman beings; for them, the moral duty of achieving happiness and abundance...

Darwin Initiative: Reducing Environmental Degradation through Sustainable Fuel Interventions in Afghanistan 2016-19

Source: Ecology and Conservation Organisation of Afghanistan, 2019

Countries: Afghanistan

Topics: Climate Change, Governance, Renewable Resources

Added: 07/02/2021

This one-page fact sheet summarizes the Darwin Initiative Afghanistan. The project will support the National Environmental Protection Agency of Afghanistan (NEPA) and the Conservation Organisation for Afghan Mountains (COAM) to engage with the rural, mountainous communities of the Central Highlands Region in Bamyan, to prevent environmental degradation by reducing fuelwood...

Mapping Untreated and Semi-Treated Wastewater Effluent off the Coast of Gaza with Sentinel-1 Time Series Data

Source: Oregon State University, 2020

Author(s): Anna D. Ballasiotes

Countries: Israel, Palestine

Topics: Data and Technologies, Public Health, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution

Added: 07/02/2021

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most contested and complicated conflicts in the world. As one of the occupied Palestinian Territories recognized by the United Nations, the social and environmental conditions in Gaza are impossible to understand without reference to the occupation of Gaza by its neighbor Israel. Hostilities...

Solving the Jigsaw of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage: Utilizing Open-Source Analysis to Improve Research into Environmental Health Risks 

Source: Journal of Public Health, 2020

Author(s): Wim Zwijnenburg, David Hochhauser, Omar Dewachi, Richard Sullivan, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen

Topics: Data and Technologies, Public Health, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution

Added: 07/02/2021

Investigation of the environmental impacts of armed conflict has been made easier in recent years with the development of new and improved methods for documenting and monitoring environmental damage and pollution. For decades, research into conflict-linked environmental damage and its links to human health have been overlooked and research underfunded,...

Land Use and Land Cover Changes along the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipelines – Monitoring Infrastructure Development in Remote Conflict-Prone Regions

Source: PLoS ONE, 2020

Author(s): Thiri S. Aung, Thomas B. Fischer, and John Buchanan

Countries: China, Myanmar

Topics: Data and Technologies, Extractive Resources, Land, Renewable Resources

Added: 07/02/2021

Energy infrastructures can have negative impacts on the environment. In remote and / or sparsely populated as well as in conflict-prone regions, these can be difficult to assess, in particular when they are of a large scale. Analyzing land use and land cover changes can be an important initial step...

Conflict Minerals in the Corporate Supply Chain: Is Transparency the Solution to Human Rights Violations in the Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten and Gold Supply Chains?

Source: European Business Law Review, 2018

Author(s): Elif Härkönen

Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, European Union, United States

Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance

Added: 07/02/2021

The European Union has recently enacted the Conflict Minerals Regulation, introducing new transparency requirements for importers of tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold from conflict-affected regions. Similar legislation has previously been enacted in the United States. The purpose of the new transparency requirements in both jurisdictions is to cut off funding...

Food Insecurity and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: Results from the California Women’s Health Survey

Source: Public Health Nutrition, 2015

Author(s): Joni L. Ricks, Susan D. Cochran, Onyebuchi A. Arah, John K. Williams, and Teresa E. Seeman

Countries: United States

Topics: Gender, Renewable Resources

Added: 06/02/2021

This study aimed to investigate the association between food insecurity and intimate partner violence in a population-based sample of heterosexual women. The results show (i) that African-American women had a higher prevalence of food insecurity and were more likely to report severe intimate partner violence; (ii) a strong positive...

Food and Water Insecurity as Causes of Social Unrest: Evidence from Geolocated Twitter Data

Source: Journal of Peace Research, 2021

Author(s): Ore Koren, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, and Thomas S. Benson

Countries: Kenya

Topics: Basic Services, Conflict Causes, Data and Technologies, Renewable Resources

Added: 06/02/2021

Research often fails to account for the specific pathways by which climatic factors can cause social unrest. One challenge lies in understanding the distinct effects of food insecurity and water insecurity – which the authors term ‘staple insecurities’ – while accounting for their interrelated nature, especially at high-resolution spatio-temporal scales....