Disasters

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Germany's National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment

2025 | Metis ­Institute for Strategy and Foresight, adelphi research, BND, ­and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

This National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment outlines the risks to Germany’s national security resulting from climate change up until 2040. In accordance with the National…

Sustainability amid Conflict: Gaza's Environmental, Social, and Economic Struggles

2025 | Journal of Environmental Management
Abdo Hassoun

The recent war on Gaza (October 2023–January 2025) has led to profound environmental degradation, social instability, and economic collapse, posing substantial obstacles to sustainable development.…

Mutual Aid in Times of Crisis. Case Study: Australia

2025 | Groupe URD
Claire McLisky and Emma Pittaway

This report considers the forms, characteristics and dynamics of mutual aid, and the relationship between mutual aid and official responses, in Greater Uki, located in…

Climate, Peace, and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Katongo Seyuba

Local communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face the combined challenge of climate change and violent conflict, which exacerbates vulnerabilities, poverty, displacement and human insecurity. This SIPRI Insights Paper examines…

L'Entraide en Temps de Crise : Étude de Cas Tchad

2025 | Groupe URD
Cécile Petitdemange and Aline Hubert

This case study was chosen because Chad is one of the most vulnerable countries and the least prepared for climate change, and is very frequently…

Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa

2024 | START: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (University of Maryland)
Salma Bouziani, Steve S. Sin, Madeline Romm, and Louis M. Wasser

While the consequences of climate change and climate security issues have global ramifications, certain regions bear a disproportionate burden of extreme impacts due to geographical…

MiRCH Update: Military Responses to Climate Disasters across the United States

2025 | Center for Climate and Security
Tom Ellison

The Center for Climate and Security’s (CCS) Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker now includes 501 deployments in 97 countries between June 2022 and…

The Economic Consequences of Climate Change for Afghanistan: Losses, Projections … and Pathways to Mitigation

2025 | Afghanistan Analysts Network
Mohammad Assem Mayar

Despite contributing minimally to global emissions, Afghanistan faces escalating economic and social crises from climate change. Climate shocks, such as from floods, droughts, landslides, avalanches…

Environmental Displacement and Political Instability: Evidence from Africa

2024 | Journal of Peace Research
Angela Chesler

Does environmental displacement provoke political instability? Though migration has long been considered an intermediary in the causal path between environmental change and political upheaval, the…

Fires as Collateral or Means of War: Challenges of Environmental Peacebuilding in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

2024 | Ecology and Society
Lina Eklund and Pinar Dinc

The patterns, frequency and intensity of vegetation fires are often studied from biophysical perspectives, outlining the impacts of climate, vegetation, and proximity to human settlements…

De-escalation and Diplomacy: Disasters as Drivers of Reduced Conflict Risks in the Indo-Pacific

2025 | Australian Journal of International Affairs
Tobias Ide, Ali Hayes, Indah Larasati, and Chloe Canavan

Interest in the impact of disasters on conflict risks is burgeoning. This is particularly the case for the Indo-Pacific region, which is highly vulnerable to…

Climate as a Catalyst for Global Conflicts [Audio]

2025 | Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University
Peter Schwartzstein

Climate change isn’t just an environmental threat—it’s becoming a catalyst for conflict.

Over the past decade, rising temperatures, water shortages, and other environmental disruptions have fueled…

Wildfire Analyses in Iraqi Kurdistan

2025 | PAX International
Linda Rasheed, Wim Zwijnenburg, and Stephan Preinstorfer

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has faced a concerning rise in wildfires in recent years. These fires pose both acute and longterm threats to communities,…

Climate Security in the Era of Uncertainty [Video]

2025 | Observer Research Foundation

From unprecedented rains and floods stretching from the Middle East to China, destructive heat waves across southern Asia, wildfires across Western countries, the planet is…

Co-operation in North-west Azerbaijan and Eastern Georgia

2024 | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and adelphi
Raquel Munayer, Beatrice Mosello, and Lukas Ruttinger

This scoping study aims to assess the current context of landscape fire management and wildfire risk reduction in two pilot municipalities: Dedoplistskaro in Georgia and…

Why Early Warnings Are Critical for Climate Action and Conflict Prevention

2024 | United States Institute of Peace
Brittany Croll and Cassandra Schneider

Amid a changing climate, understanding the interplay between extreme environmental events and conflict is only growing more important. Droughts, floods and other natural disasters can…

Swathi Veeravalli on the Importance of Climate Security for US Strategic Interests [Audio]

2024 | New Security Broadcast
Lauren Risi and Swathi Veeravalli

In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Program Director Lauren Risi sits down with Swathi Veeravalli on her last day as the Director for…

Climate Change and Human Security Implications for Humanitarian, Development, Disaster and Climate Risk Management in Mozambique

2024 | Overseas Development Institute and Center for Climate and Security

As part of the project ‘Catalysing cohesive action on climate and security’, ODI, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) and the CGIAR FOCUS Climate…

Operationalising the Quad: Maritime Security and Climate Change in the Indo-Pacific

2024 | United States Studies Centre
Kate Clayton

This paper advances the case for enhanced Quad cooperation on maritime security and climate change. Climate change exacerbates prevailing maritime security challenges, including illegal fishing,…

Russia’s Ecocide in Ukraine: Environmental Destruction and the Need for Accountability [Video]

2024 | Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Kristina Hook, Eugene Z. Stakhiv, and Maryna Boydyuk

In the ten years since Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine, Ukraine estimates that Russia has inflicted some $60 billion in damages to…

Early Warning Systems in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence-Affected Settings: Shielding Communities from Natural Hazards amid Compounded Crises - World Bank White Paper for EWS Implementation in FCV Settings

2024 | World Bank and Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

This study, led by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) teams working on the Disaster-FCV Nexus thematic area and the Hydromet Services…

Climate Security: Global Warming and a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

2024 | Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Humankind has survived and built the foundations of life and society by responding to changes in the global environment, such as cold and warming, aridity…

Regional Co-operation Strategy on Climate Change and Security in Central Asia’s High Mountain Areas

2024 | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Beatrice Mosello, Spencer Adrian McMurray, Lukas Rüttinger, and Alina Viehoff

This strategy presents a set of ideas for regional co-operation to jointly address climate-related security risks in Central Asia’s high mountain areas. It is an…

Refugee Settlements Are Highly Exposed to Extreme Weather Conditions

2024 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Sonja Fransen, Anja Werntges, Alexander Hunns, Mikhail Sirenko, and Tina Comes

Refugee settlements are often located in countries most vulnerable to climate variability. This article provides a systematic analysis examining the exposure to slow- and rapid-onset…

Emergent Network Patterns of Internal Displacement in Somalia Driven by Natural Disasters and Conflicts

2024 | Global Environmental Change
Woi Oh, Rachata Muneepeerakul, Daniel Rubenstein, and Simon Levin

In Somalia, extreme droughts, floods, and conflicts have generated a great wave of internally displaced persons (IDPs) involuntarily moving within the country’s boundaries. Despite increasing…

Natural Disasters, Foreign Direct Investment; and Women's Rights in Developing Countries

2024 | Social Science Research
Mi Jeong Shin and Seungbin Park

We examine the conditions under which women's economic and political status is less vulnerable in the aftermath of natural disasters. We theorize that women in…

Divergent Dynamics: Disasters and Conflicts as 'Drivers' of Internal Displacement?

2023 | Disasters
David James Cantor

Disasters and conflicts are both widely recognised as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement. Yet, despite a growing body of research and policy, there has been little…

Does Disaster Contribute to Armed Conflict? A Quantitative Analysis of Disaster–Conflict Co-Occurrence between 1990 and 2017

2024 | International Journal of Development Issues
Nicolas Caso, Dorothea Hilhorst, Rodrigo Mena, and Elissaios Papyrakis

Disasters and armed conflict often co-occur, but does that imply that disasters trigger or fuel conflict? In the small but growing body of literature attempting…

The Catastrophes-Conflicts Nexus: On the Interlinkages of Disasters, Armed Conflicts, and Fragility

2024 | World Risk Report 2024: Multiple Crises
Tobias Ide, Karima Ben Bih, and Katie Peters

Disasters and armed conflict zones frequently overlap, with factors such as climate change and persistent poverty amplifying this trend. Recent research shows that disasters increase…

Environmental (In)security, Peacebuilding and Green Economic Recovery in the Context of Russia’s War against Ukraine

2024 | Environment and Security
Patrick Flamm and Stefan Kroll

In addition to the loss of many lives and livelihoods, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has also led to direct and indirect harm to…