Palestine-Israel
A Guide to Protection and Promotion of Women’s HLP Rights in the Gaza Strip
2016
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Norwegian Refugee Council
Elisa Scalise and Amanda Richardson
To improve the development of best practices for strengthening community-based approaches, Norwegian Refugee Council’s Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) program in Gaza commissioned production…
Ambiguity in Transboundary Environmental Dispute Resolution: The Israeli-Jordanian Water Agreement
2008
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Journal of Peace Research
Itay Fischhendler
Cooperation over transboundary environmental resources, water in particular, has been analyzed from various perspectives. Each study identifies the problems of cooperation differently and suggests different…
Trading off Natural Resources and Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Sustainability Assessment of Small-Scale Food Production in Water-Limited Regions
2017
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Advances in Water Resources
Francesca Recanati, Andrea Castelletti, Giovanni Dotelli, and Paco Melia
Enhancing local production is key to promoting food security, especially in rural households of low-income countries, but may conflict with limited natural resources and ecosystems…
Factors of Success and Failure for Transboundary Environmental Cooperation: Projects in the Gulf of Aqaba
2017
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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
Michelle E. Portman and Yael Teff-Seker
After signing a peace accord in 1994, joint projects were initiated between Israel and Jordan aimed at enhancing environmental protection and resource management. This paper…
Helping the Palestinian Territory Adapt to Climate Change
2014
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London School of Economics
Michael Mason
Significant climate change is forecast for the Middle East by the end of this century, leading to greater water scarcity and falling agricultural productivity. Without…
Water in the West Bank: A Case Study on Palestinian Water Security
2016
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Penn Sustainability Review
Kelly A. Bridges
In 1989, Malin Falkenmark developed the water stress index that defnes water scarcity by annual individual usage. In her index, which the United Nations later…
Resilience and Environmental Security: Towards Joint Application in Peacebuilding
2017
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Global Change, Peace and Security
Janpeter Schilling, Sarah Louise Nash, Tobias Ide, Jürgen Scheffran, Rebecca Froese, and Pina von Prondzinski
Resilience is a widely used concept among development, environmental, security and peacebuilding organizations. However, resilience has rarely been applied in conjunction with the potentially complementary…
Towards a Living Jordan River: An Environmental Flows Report on the Rehabilitation of the Lower Jordan River
2010
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Friends of the Earth Middle East
Sarig Gafny, Samer Talozi, Banan Al Sheikh, and Elizabeth Ya'ari
The Jordan River Rehabilitation Project’s Environmental Flow study is the first of a two part study undertaken by EcoPeace/ Friends of the Earth Middle East…
Environmental Emergency Response to the Lebanon Crisis
2006
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and UNEP
In July 2006, open hostilities broke out between Israel and Hezbollah, with heavy aerial bombardment of Lebanon, especially south Lebanon and south Beirut. The conflict…
Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan
2013
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SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
Philip Jan Schäfer
The work aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present in Jordan and Israel, if they converge and…
Water Blues
2015
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Middle East Report
Lizabeth Zack
Two quiet but revealing developments related to Middle East water were announced in the spring and summer of 2015. On February 26, Israeli and Jordanian…
Energy Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean: Source for Cooperation or Fuel for Tension
2012
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The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Michael Leigh and Charlotte Brandsma
The discovery of large gas fields off the shores of Israel and Cyprus could bring great benefits in terms of energy security and economic gains…
Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict
2015
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Routledge
Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen
Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide. The book explores how the ongoing constitutional, legal and…
Using Water Insecurity to Predict Domestic Water Demand in the Palestinian West Bank
2015
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Water International
S. E. Galaitsi, Annette Huber-Lee, Richard M. Vogel, and Elena M. Naumova
Household interviews were conducted in the Palestinian West Bank to examine the relationship between price elasticity, water insecurity and domestic water demand. Water insecurity weights…
Natural Resources and Conflict: A Guide for Mediation Practitioners
2015
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United Nations Department of Political Affairs and United Nations Environment Programme
Michael J. Brown, Alex Grzybowski, David Jensen, and Josie Lianna Kaye
This report bridges the gap between the technical and political aspects by providing a much needed conflict resolution framework for disputes that center on natural…
Conflicts over Shared Rivers: Resource Scarcity or Fuzzy Boundaries?
2006
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Elsevier: Political Geography
Nils Petter Gleditsch, Kathryn Furlong, Havard Hegre, Bethany Lacina, Taylor Owen
This article first reviews the water wars and fuzzy boundaries conflict scenarios.Then this article discusses a new data set based on a more complete set…
Resources for Peace? Managing Revenues from Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Environments
2008
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Polictical Economy Research Institute: University of Massachusettes Amherst
Philippe Le Billon
Revenues from extractive sectors play an important role in many post-conflict environments. Oil and gas, minerals, and logging often provide more than 30% of state…
Recursos renovables y conflictos (Renewable Resources and Conflict)
2012
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Alianza UE-ONU
Alianza UE-ONU
“Administrar la tierra y los recursos naturales constituye uno de los desafíos más importantes a los que actualmente se enfrentan los países en desarrollo. La…
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
2011
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Harper Perennial
Steven Solomon
In Water, esteemed journalist Steven Solomon describes a terrifying—and all too real—world in which access to fresh water has replaced oil as the primary cause…
Water as a Catalyst for Peace: Transboundary Water Management and Conflict Resolution
2013
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Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Ahmed Abukhater
Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation…
Trans-boundary Water Cooperation as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and for Broader Benefit-sharing
2006
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David Phillips, Marwa Daoudy, Stephen McCaffrey, Joakim Öjendal and Anthony Turton
The report concerns trans-boundary (international) waters, and provides an analysis on whether cooperation concerning such waters may constitute a tool for the prevention of broader…
Whose Brother's Keeper? International Trusteeship and the Search for Peace in the Palestinian Territories
2012
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Jeffrey D. Pugh
International trusteeship of post-conflict territories by multilateral institutions or foreign states received renewed attention in the wake of its application in Kosovo and East Timor…
Conflicts Over Natural Resources in the Global South
2014
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Maarten Bavinck, Lorenzo Pellegrini & Erik Mostert, Eds. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South: Conceptual Approaches is a joint publication of the CoCooN research programme. It presents the conceptual approaches of…
Renewable Natural Resources: Practical Lessons for Conflict Sensitive Development
2009
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World Bank
Sandra Ruckstuhl
This paper explores how a “conflict and violence sensitive” framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of…
Shared Waters: Conflict and Cooperation
2007
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Aaron T. Wolf
This review examines the state of conflict and cooperation over transboundary water resources from an environmental, political, and human development perspective. Although the potential for…
Linking Environment and Conflict Prevention: The Role of the United Nations.
2008
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Mason, S., A. Muller, A. Schnabel, R. Alluri, and C. Schmid (ETH Zurich and Swisspeace)
The relevance of how environmental factors influence violent conflicts tends to be either exaggerated or underestimated. Moreover, climate change and oil are often emphasized as…
Lebanon: Post-conflict Environmental Assessment
2007
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UNEP
“The conflict in Lebanon and in Israel, which began on 12 July 2006 and ended on 14 August with a ceasefire under UN Security Council…
Environmental Assessment of the Gaza Strip Following the Escalation of Hostilities in December 2008 – January 2009
2009
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UNEP
“The Gaza Strip has been a theatre of conflict for decades. Each of these conflicts has left its mark, and over time, a significant environmental…
Desk Study on the Environment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
2003
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UNEP
“The Middle East is a meeting point of many escalating environmental threats. This is particularly the case in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Long-term environmental degradation…