Public Health
Intra-State Water Conflicts (Second Half of the XX-Early XXI Centuries): Historical and Geographic Overview
2021
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Laplage em Revista
Olesya Mykolaivna Kutska, Tetiana Valeriivna Lavrut, Ihor Ivanovych Furman, Vadim Yurievich Bespeka, and Mykola Mykhailovych Golyk
The article reveals and systematizes the main types of conflicts over drinking water, which broke out in the world during the late XX and early…
Climate Change and Systemic Environmental Racism
2021
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Stanley Center for Peace and Security
Emily Sample and Regina M. Paulose
There are numerous reasons why dire warnings about climate change have not translated into urgent action. Among those factors, systemic racism has pervaded the creation…
Environmental Crisis: High Commissioner Calls for Leadership by Human Rights Council Member States
2021
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Michelle Bachelet
My statement this morning will update the Council on a series of human rights situations and themes that are of concern to my Office. The…
The Reality of Aid Report 2020/2021: Aid in the Context of Conflict, Fragility, and the Climate Emergency
2021
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Reality of Aid
Urantsooj Gumbosuren, Vitalice Meja, Sarah Isabelle Torres, Henry Morales, Nerea Craviotto, Brian Tomlinson, and Mark M. Pascual
The 2020/2021 Reality of Aid Report sets out a narrative in support of a transformative shift in the international aid system taking stock of persisting global crises…
Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: Jordan, Palestine and Israel
2021
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Climate Security Expert Network
Giulia Giordano and Lukas Rüttinger
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is considered a climate-security hotspot due to its natural water scarcity, low levels of socio-ecological resilience, social…
Rethinking Human Mobility in the Face of Global Changes
2021
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adelphi and Cascades
Beatrice Mosello, Christian König, Emily Wright, and Gareth Price
This paper examines the interaction between climate impacts, migration, displacement and (in)security. It aims to go beyond the prevailing narratives on climate change and migration…
The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush
2021
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New Yorker
Nicolas Niarchos
Cell phones and electric cars rely on the mineral, causing a boom in demand. Locals are hunting for this buried treasure—but are getting almost none of…
Spreading Disease, Spreading Conflict? COVID-19, Climate Change, and Security Risks
2020
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Climate Diplomacy, adelphi, and German Federal Foreign Office
Beatrice Mosello, Adrian Foong, Christian König, Susanne Wolfmaier, and Emily Wright
The COVID-19 pandemic has profound global impacts. While all countries have been affected, the pandemic is hitting those that were already struggling with poverty, conflict…
Rethinking Nature, Crisis, and Complexity after the Pandemic
2021
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UNDP
Kishan Khoday
COVID-19 and the emerging development crisis are a stark reminder of the consequences of ecological fragility and complexity. As devastating as this pandemic has been,…
From the Frying Pan into the Fire: Environmental Crises and their Implications for Conflict Resolution (chapter in "Conflict Resolution after the Pandemic: Building Peace, Restoring Justice")
2021
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Taylor & Francis
Michael Shank
This chapter describes the threats most likely to produce escalated social conflicts in the immediate and medium-term future. Two environmentally rooted crises – the planetary…
Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Pathways and Interconnections
2021
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Caroline Delgado, Vongai Murugani, and Kristina Tschunkert
Conflict has a direct negative impact on food systems, affecting people’s ability to produce, trade and access food. In most armed conflicts of the late…
Climate Risk Country Profile: Congo, Democratic Republic
2021
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World Bank
This climate risk profile is intended to serve as a public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive…
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: How Does the Impact of COVID-19 Vary by Gender?
2021
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Frontiers in Sociology
Rosemary Morgan, Peter Baker, Derek M. Griffith, Sabra L. Klein, Carmen H. Logie, Amon Ashaba Mwiine, Ayden I. Scheim, Janna R. Shapiro, Julia Smith, Clare Wenham, and Alan White
Epidemics and pandemics, like COVID-19, are not gender neutral. Much of the current work on gender, sex, and COVID-19, however, has seemed implicitly or explicitly…
Climate Change and Conflict: Impact on Displacement
2021
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International Committee of the Red Cross
A little over a year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world down to its knees. No country was spared the wrath, revealing how vulnerable we are…
Evaluation Environnementale et Sanitaire des Aires d’Abattage à l’Heure de Covid-19 Situées dans la Commune de Matete Ville-Province de Kinshasa (RD Congo)
2020
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Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences
Umba M. Joachim, Kumple M. Placide, Maleke M. Jean-Pierre, and Metana M. Marlène
In an increasingly interconnected world, prevention against the risks of food-related diseases is the subject of debate. Food quality control is becoming a public health…
IRC Watchlist 2021
2020
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International Rescue Commission
The IRC is launching Watchlist 2021 as a call to action for global leaders and the general public. Historically, the annual Watchlist was a humanitarian…
Water under Fire: Strengthening Sector Capacity for a Predictable, Quality Humanitarian Response
2020
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UNICEF
Franck Bouvet, Dominique Porteaud, and Lisa Drysdale
As the world faces an unprecedented level of complex and protracted humanitarian crises, the humanitarian community cannot currently meet WASH needs wherever and whenever they…
Water under Fire: Attacks on Water and Sanitation Services in Armed Conflict and the Impacts on Children
2021
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UNICEF
Leslie Morris-Iveson, Ernesto Granillo, and Sofie Grundin
Children rely on safe and sufficient water and sanitation for their survival and development. When their human rights to safe water and sanitation are denied,…
"We Survived the Virus, but May Not Survive the Hunger": The Impact of COVID-19 on Afghanistan's Internally Displaced
2021
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Amnesty International
The COVID-19 pandemic has a disproportionate impact on Afghanistan’s more than four million internally displaced people (IDPs), as thousands of new displacements are registered every…
The Impact of Covid-19 in Water-Stressed Iraq
2021
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Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Dorith Kool, Laura Birkman, and Giorgio Berti
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq, in parallel with the country’s water issues, are exacerbating existing health, economic, socio-political, and security challenges. This…
Bringing Drugs into Light: Embedded Governance and Opium Production in Myanmar’s Shan State
2020
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Oxford Development Studies
Jinhee Lim and Taekyoon Kim
Instead of criminalizing the opium economy or seeing it as a natural occurrence, opium production must be acknowledged as a basis for political and economic…
The Environmental Impact of Syria’s Conflict: A Preliminary Survey of Issues
2021
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Arab Reform Initiative
Roba Gaafar
The Syrian conflict has had devastating human and economic consequences, but it also greatly damaged the environment in the country. This paper provides a preliminary…
Afghanistan: Spring Disaster Contingency Plan (Mar-Jun 2021)
2021
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Recognising the multiple, overlapping challenges facing the people of Afghanistan as spring approaches – including a potential La Niña-driven drought, intensifying conflict, and ongoing COVID-19…
The Security Threat That Binds Us: The Unraveling of Ecological and Natural Security and What the United States Can Do about It
2021
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Council on Strategic Risks
Rod Schoonover, Christine Cavallo, and Isabella Caltabiano
Global ecological disruption is arguably the 21st Century’s most underappreciated security threat. Human societies are producing rapid, novel, and foundational changes across multiple Earth systems…
Movements Shaping Climate Futures: A Systematic Mapping of Protests against Fossil Fuel and Low-Carbon Energy Projects
2020
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Environmental Research Letters
Leah Temper, Sofia Avila, Daniela Del Bene, Jennifer Gobby, Nicolas Kosoy, Philippe Le Billon, Joan Martinez-Alier, Patricia Perkins, Brototi Roy, Arnim Scheidel, and Mariana Walter
This article undertakes a systematic mapping of 649 cases of resistance movements to both fossil fuel (FF) and low carbon energy (LCE) projects, providing the…
Mapping Untreated and Semi-Treated Wastewater Effluent off the Coast of Gaza with Sentinel-1 Time Series Data
2020
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Oregon State University
Anna D. Ballasiotes
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…
Solving the Jigsaw of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage: Utilizing Open-Source Analysis to Improve Research into Environmental Health Risks
2020
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Journal of Public Health
Wim Zwijnenburg, David Hochhauser, Omar Dewachi, Richard Sullivan, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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…
Nick Parker Talks to BBC about Unexpected Impacts of U.S. Conflict Minerals Legislation [Audio]
2017
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BBC World Newsday
Dominic Parker
Dominic Parker, assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics, is interviewed twice on BBC World News’ Newsday program. The topic of conversation is Parker’s research…
Effects of Violent Political Conflict on the Supply, Demand and Fragmentation of Fresh Food Markets
2020
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Food Security
Ziv Bar-Nahum, Israel Finkelshtain, Rico Ihle, and Ofir D. Rubin
Violent political conflict has been documented to have comprehensive adverse effects on economic activity and, thus, substantially harm social welfare. As conflict escalations are often…
Climate Change and Agriculture: The Competition for Limited Resources Amidst Crop Farmers-livestock Herding Conflict in Nigeria - A Review
2020
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Journal of Clearer Production
O. Alaanuloluwa Ikhuoso, M.J. Adegbeye, M.M.Y. Elghandour, M. Mellado, S.N. Al-Dobaib, and A.Z.M Salem
In Nigeria, there have been clashes between herdsmen and crop farmers. While a lot of people have adjudged it to be solely a religious and…