Renewable Resources

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Teaching Materials: Water Diplomacy – Turning Rivers into Bridges

2026 | Stockholm International Water Institute
Martina Klimes

These teaching materials support the webinar Turning rivers into bridges, part of the WaterWise programme by Schools Beyond Regions and Borders (SBRB). They provide a…


The US-Israel War on Iran and How War and Conflict Are Destroying the Environment

2026 | GreenPeace
Mehdi Leman

From Ukraine to Sudan, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Venezuela, people are living through war, bombardment, occupation, militarisation or political violence, while the damage reaches far…


Armed Conflicts and Their Environmental Impacts: Toward a Global Legal Framework for Promoting Environmental Sustainability

2026 | Asian Journal of Water, Environment, and Pollution
Mohammad Alsalmi, Omar Alatawil Doaa Badran, Mahmoud Abdelhady, Naser Alsherman, and Ehab Alrousan

In an era marked by intensifying armed conflicts, the protection of ecosystems and natural resources has become an urgent global imperative. This study aims to…


Confluence Beyond Borders in a Changing Climate: Dialogue for Cooperation in Central Asia and Afghanistan

2026 | Stockholm International Water Institute
Martina Klimes

This report examines the growing risks to water security in Central Asia and Afghanistan as climate change accelerates glacial melt, alters river flows, and increases…


Regional Policy Coherence for the Great Green Wall Initiative: Restoring Land and Sustaining Peace: The Great Green Wall and the Climate–Peace–Security Nexus in Africa

2026 | Africa Union

Climate change poses an escalating threat to Africa’s development, peace, and security. Despite contributing minimally to global emissions, the continent faces disproportionate loss and damage…


An Update on the Impact of International Sanctions on Myanmar’s Forest Sector: Four Years Since the Coup

2026 | Forest Trends

Since the February 2021 coup, importing countries have reported more than US$1.45 billion in the import of forest product from Myanmar. This is an increase…


A Rapid Assessment of Liberia’s Mining Sector, with a Focus on the Local Impacts on Forests and People

2026 | Forest Trends

The mining sector has long driven Liberia’s economy. But while the economy has grown, Liberia has not developed at the same rate. This assessment examines…


Species' Habitat Change over Twenty Years in Colombia's Tropical Dry Forests

2026 | Ecological Indicators
Maria Isabel Arce-Plata, Natalia Norden, Jaime Burbano-Girón, Guy R. Larocque, M.C. Díaz, Susana Rodríguez Buriticá, Germán Corzo, and Timothée Poisot

Countries worldwide are working together under the Convention on Biological Diversity to tackle biodiversity loss. As part of this effort, the monitoring framework of the…


Food Waste Management in SMEs: The Ukrainian Context

2026 | British Food Journal
Roza Sagitova, Volodymyr Filippov, Lidiia Voloshchuk, and Lisa Jack

This study examines food waste (FW) management by food retail and food service SMEs in developing countries such as Ukraine. The data were collected through…


Ethnic Land Rights as a Faustian Bargain? On the Afro-Colombian Struggle for Alternative Livelihoods and Its Limits

2026 | Progress in Development Studies
Caroline Cornier

From the 1990s onwards, ethnic minorities in Latin America have been granted collective property rights to protect their natural livelihoods and culture from extractivism and…


The Iran War’s Hidden Front: Food, Water, and Fertilizer

2026 | Council on Foreign Relations
Michael Werz

The consequences of the Iran conflict, which are already being felt in the region, will reverberate globally as an exacerbated food crisis swells. The normally…


Drylands as Frontlines of Adaptation: A Shift Away from the Climate-Conflict Narrative

2026 | Cambridge University Press
Lina Eklund

Drylands account for a disproportionate share of the world’s armed conflicts, a pattern frequently interpreted through the lens of resource scarcity – where climate change…


War at Sea and the Environment

2026 | PAX
Camille Maisonneuve and Wim Zwijnenburg

While attention to the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts has been growing, much of the analysis focuses on land warfare – examining air, soil and…


Environmental Entry Points to Mediation

2026 | Center for Security Studies and ETH Zürich
Simon Mason, Sebastian Kratzer, and Edward Jackson

The environmental peacebuilding field often advances the assumption that environmental issues present good entry points for dialogue, mediation, and peace. It is, however, often that…


Fragile Foundations: Why Renewable Energy (Not GDP) Drives Somalia’s Food Security

2026 | Food and Humanity
Bile Abdisalan Nor and Azhar Mohamad

Somalia has a massive problem of food insecurity. Food insecurity in Somalia has persisted since 1991 and has worsened over time. The government of Somalia…


Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era

2026 | United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health
Kaveh Madani

Published on the occasion of UNU-INWEH’s 30th anniversary, and ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference, this flagship report, Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our…


Climate Security and Climate Justice, Recognizing Context in the Sahel

2026 | Australian Journal of Emergency Management
Tor A. Benjaminsen

Benjaminsen explores the complex interplay between climate change, security and justice in the Sahel region of West Africa. He emphasises the importance of understanding historical,…


Armed Conflict and Climate-Induced Weather Disruptions in Agricultural Input Use: Evidence From Ethiopia

2026 | Journal of Agricultural Economics
Hailemariam Ayalew, Guush Berhane, Meseret Wondale, and Clemens Breisinger

The recent surge in violent conflicts, intertwined with climate-induced drought shock, is jeopardizing decades of development progress in many low- and middle-income countries. This study…


Oil Field Impacts on Venezuela’s Rivers and Water Stress with Environmental Challenges

2026 | Journal of South American Earth Sciences
Aleksandar Valjarević

This study examines the ecological impact of oil extraction on Venezuela's river systems, focusing on pollution, hydrological changes, and water resource stress. A spatial and…


Pathway from Water-Conflict to Water-Peace in the Middle East and North Africa

2026 | Water Practice and Technology
Muhammad Khalifa, Maha Al-Zu'bi, and Youssef Brouziyne

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with its arid and semi-arid climate, faces profound challenges in managing limited water resources. These challenges are…


Navigating the Waters: A Hegemonic Stability Theory Analysis of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Its Impact on Hydro-Politics in the Nile Basin

2025 | ESP International Journal of Science, Humanities and Management Studies
Mutktar Usmen and Irshad Ahmad

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) signifies a critical milestone in the intricate landscape of transboundary water management within the Nile Basin, inciting a contentious…


Defueling Conflict: Notes from the Field

2025 | World Bank
Elise Doumergue, Shaadee Ahmadnia, Tracy Hart, Phoebe Spencer, Sally Judson, and Amanda Woomer

"Defueling Conflict: Notes from the Field" explores the operationalization of conflict sensitivity and environmental peacebuilding, synthesizing tools and lessons learned from the World Bank's engagement…


Chocolate Giants Fuel Deforestation in West Africa’s Last Rainforest

2025 | Global Witness

An investigation by Global Witness links some of the world’s most popular chocolates, including Mars, Magnums, KitKat, Hersheys and Dairy Milk, to a new deforestation…


Water and Power: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Nile Basin Security

2025 | E-International Relations
Chourouk Mestour

Water has been an important natural resource since the beginning of civilization. It is one of many resources studied in the field of International Relations,…


Talking History: Water Wars with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell [Audio]

2025 | KSMU Radio
Djene Bajalan

From oil and gas to lithium and rare earth elements, the story of the modern world has often been shaped by competition over natural resources.…


River Mapping and the Politics of Eco-Scalar Fixes. Reconnecting Upstream–Downstream Networks through Critical Cartographies of Colombia’s Bogotá River

2025 | Geoforum
Laura Giraldo-Martínez, Rutgerd Boelens, and Bibiana Duarte-Abadía

This paper examines how river mapping practices and related scalar politics shape biased understandings and governance of Colombia’s Bogotá River. Despite significant conservation efforts in…


Red-Dead Redemption? Applying and Critiquing Environmental Peacebuilding in Palestine, Jordan, and Israel

2025 | Oregon State University
Zachary M. Field

The theory of environmental peacebuilding holds that transboundary environmental challenges can serve as a catalyst for cooperation and conflict resolution. Formed in response to perspectives…


P-REC Deal Book

2025 | Energy Peace Partners

Energy Peace Partners (EPP) published this Peace Renewable Energy Credit (P-REC) “Deal Book” to help buyers achieve their sustainability goals. The Deal Book offers a…


Afghan Dams Cause Downstream Strife in Iran and Turkmenistan

2025
Global Water Security Center

The Taliban aims to fully use its water resources to alleviate its economic woes.

Helmand River Basin Strife: Iran and Afghanistan both want more water than…


Desk Study of the Economic and Geo-political Feasibility of a Large-Scale Desalination Plant in the Gaza Strip and Its Incorporation into the Regional Water Supply System

2025 | EcoPeace Middle East
David Katz and Fredi Lokiec

The population of the Gaza Strip suffers from extreme water scarcity. With limited natural water resources, desalination will have to play a central role in providing…