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Autocratic Power? Energy Megaprojects in the Age of Democratic Backsliding

2022 | Energy Research & Social Science
Mirza Sadaqat Huda

Cross-border energy megaprojects play an important role in global energy transition. However, energy megaprojects have enormous impacts on socio-political systems. The global decline of democratic…

Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries

2023 | International Studies Review
Anselm Vogler

Defense ministries regularly frame climate security in their national security strategies. Recently, “civil” ministries also begun mentioning climate security. However, they do not mean the…

Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D

Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…

Climate Change, Security, and Political Coherence in the South and East China Seas: A Scenarios-Based Assessment

2022 | Center for Climate and Security
Rachel Fleishman

Climate change is a present and growing threat to countries bordering the South and East China Seas. It tests governments already weakened by the strains…

Pacific Plunder

2021 | Guardian
Josh Nicholas, Ben Doherty, and Kate Lyons

Millions of tonnes of minerals, fish and timber are extracted from Pacific island nations each year, generating massive profits for foreign multinationals. Across the region,…

Joint Statement on Promoting Women, Peace and Security in ASEAN

2017 | ASEAN

WE, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN”), namely Brunei Darussalam, the…

ASEAN's Transformative Journey: Role of Women in Peace and Security

2019 | Nanyang Technological University
Noeleen Heyzer

ASEAN has embarked on exploring how to implement the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the region. It has recently organised “an inaugural intersectoral…

Bridges over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation

2007 | World Scientific Series on Energy and Resource Economics
Ariel Dinar, Shlomi Dinar, Stephen McCaffrey, and Daene McKinney

Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines (such as international relations, international law,…

State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in South Asia and the Hindu Kush Himalaya

2022 | ICIMOD, UN Women, UNEP
Chanda Gurung Goodrich, Abid Hussain, Binaya Pasakhala, Kosar Bano, Sanjeev Bhuchar, Vishwas Sudhir Chitale, Suman Bisht, Aditya Bastola, and Simran Silpakar

South Asia and the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are among the regions that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Its adverse impacts…

The South China Sea Power Struggle [Infographic]

2015 | Business Insider

This map shows the territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Gender in Civil-Military Climate Security and Disaster Response: Co-Creating Gender-Transformative Approaches amid the Global Climate Crisis

2024 | Pacific Forum International
Maryruth Belsey Priebe and Tevvi Bullock

With the growing frequency, intensity, and severity of climate crisis events and disasters, defense and security institutions will be increasingly called upon to provide humanitarian…

Geopolitics of Climate Change and Water Security in South Asia: Conflict and Cooperation

2023 | Science, Policies, and Conflicts of Climate Change
Dhanasree Jayaram and Gaurica Sethi

South Asia’s climate vulnerabilities have direct and indirect implications for water security. While the effects of climate change on water access, safety, and affordability in…

South China Sea: Conflict, Challenge, and Solution

2021 | Lampung Journal of International Law
Winanda Kusuma, A. Cery Kurnia, and Rio Armanda Agustian

This study examined the dynamics of conflict, emerging trends and relationship between inter-pastoral conflicts and environmental changes in Nyangatom, Southern Ethiopia. The study employed a…

Introduction to the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment (Chapter in "The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment")

2019 | Springer
Eklabya Sharma, David Molden, Atiq Rahman, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, Linxiu Zhang, Surendra Pratap Singh, Tandong Yao, and Philippus Wester

Mountains are large landforms raised above the surface of the earth emerging into peaks and ranges. Mountains occupy 22% of the world’s land surface area…

Conflicts over Natural Resources and the Environment: Economics and Security

2003 | School of Economics, The University of Queensland
Clevo Wilson and Clem Tisdell

The existence of natural resources has given rise to conflicts in many parts of the world (cf. Klare, 2001a,b; Homer-Dixon, 1999; Ghee and Valencia, 1990).…

Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes

2024 | Pacific Forum
Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock

The Coral Triangle, spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste, is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity. The region is…

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice

2022 | UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…

Water Diplomacy and Conflict Management in the Mekong: From Rivalries to Cooperation

2018 | Journal of Hydrology
Anoulak Kittikhoun and Denise Michèle Staubli

The Mekong region, home to one of the world’s great rivers – the Mekong – is also one of the world’s most geostrategic regions, featuring…

Rethinking Human Mobility in the Face of Global Changes

2021 | 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…

Gender and Human Rights in Coastal Fisheries and Aquaculture: A Comparative Analysis of Legislation in Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu

2021 | Pacific Community
Alison Graham and Ariella D’Andrea

This study was undertaken by SPC to examine the opportunities for and barriers to human rights application in coastal fisheries and aquaculture legislation in Fiji,…

UPTEMPO: The United States and Natural Disasters in the Pacific

2020 | New America
Francis Gassert, Sharon Burke, and Rachel Zimmerman

Climate change is increasing natural disasters in the Indo-Pacific region, even as the vulnerability and exposure of the region’s huge population rises. There will likely…

In Defense of Land Rights: A Monitoring Report on Land Conflicts in Six Asian Countries

2019 | Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development

Private sector investments in agriculture have been increasing in Asia. This increase in agricultural investments has contributed to intensified competition for agricultural lands. Forest communities…

Environmental Rule of Law: The First Global Report

2019 | UN Environment

Since the 1972 Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment, environmental laws and institutions have expanded dramatically across the globe. All countries have at least one…

Women and Land in the Muslim World

2018 | UN-HABITAT
Ombretta Tempra, Siraj Sait, and Rafic Khouri

Access to land is a key element that allows women and men to fully play their role in building peaceful, stable and prosperous societies and…

Science Diplomacy and Dispute Management in the South China Sea (Chapter in "Enterprises, Localities, People, and Policy in the South China Sea: Beneath the Surface")

2018 | Palgrave Macmillan
James Borton

This volume takes readers beneath the surface of the South China Sea by exploring critical but under-researched issues related to the maritime territorial disputes. It…