Assessment
Conflict Analysis for Water Diplomacy: Why, What, How?
2023
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Finnish Environment Institute
Katariina Mustasilta and Emma Hakala
Water diplomacy aims at preventing, mitigating, and resolving tensions related to shared water resources by combining the means of diplomacy and water expertise. As an…
The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Eco-Feminist Perspectives from Africa
2024
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Pluto Press
Zo Randriamaro
This chapter unpacks the African debates on eco-feminism and looks at its contemporary concepts and practices which are rooted in the African context. It explores the ways…
Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives
2024
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Routledge
Anna James and Shirley Walters
This timely book provides a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of gendered perspectives in environmental education research. Through bringing together…
Evaluating the Sustainability of Local Women's Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Durban, South Africa: A Feminist Political Ecology and Intersectionality Perspective
2024
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ERP Environment
Fidelis Udo, Johannes Bhanye, Bakissa Daouda Diallo, and Maheshvari Naidu
This paper employs a feminist political ecology and an intersectionality framework to examine the multiple dimensions of local women's vulnerability and adaptation to climate change…
From COP28 to COP29 with Ukraine at the Front: Linking Climate, Security and Peace
2024
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Oxford University Faculty of Law
Ievgeniia Kopytsia
It is evident that concurrent crises faced by war-affected regions compound critical infrastructure damage, ecosystem degradation, and significant population displacement. The intersection of climate vulnerability…
Community Voices on Climate, Peace, and Security: Mindanao, Philippines
2024
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CGIAR
Leonardo Medina, Adam Savelli, Vanessa Souza de Matos, Setenay Kizilkaya, Mark Anthony Torres, Jayrold Arcede, Stéphanie Jaquet, Jon Hellin, Stefan Sieber, Michelle Bonatti, and Grazia Pacillo
This Community Voices on Climate, Peace and Security series report presents the results of a participatory appraisal conducted with residents of three localities across Mindanao,…
Environmental Impact of the Conflict in Gaza: Preliminary Assessment of Environmental Impacts
2024
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UNEP
This Preliminary Assessment was prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is an initial response to an official request from the State of…
Measuring the Climate Security Nexus: The Integrated Climate Security Framework
2024
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PLOS Climate
Grazia Pacillo, Leonardo Medina, Theresa Liebig, Bia Carneiro, et al.
International, regional, and national organizations, alongside policymakers, are increasingly acknowledging the crucial connection between climate, peace, and security. However, there remains a notable gap in…
Mapping the Vulnerability of Ukraine's Groundwater
2024
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
Groundwater accounts for around 99% of the liquid freshwater on Earth. However, it is often undervalued and environmental damage goes unrecorded, partly because it is…
Tracking Unaccounted Greenhouse Gas Emissions Due to the War in Ukraine Since 2022
2024
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Science of the Total Environment
Rostyslav Bun, Gregg Marland, Tomohiro Oda, Linda See, Enrique Puliafito, Zbigniew Nahorski, Mathias Jonas, Vasyl Kovalyshyn, Iolanda Ialongo, Orysia Yashchun, and Zoriana Romanchuk
Accounting and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are mandatory for Parties under the Paris Agreement. Emissions reporting is important for understanding the global carbon cycle and for…
Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential
2024
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The Lancet
Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, and Salim Yusef
By June 19, 2024, 37,396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023,…
Avoiding Atmospheric Anarchy: Geoengineering as a Source of Interstate Tension
2024
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Environment and Security
William Morrissey
Idealized climate modeling of geoengineering, notably including stratospheric aerosol injection, routinely frames the practice as the provision of a global public good in the absence…
Environmental (In)security, Peacebuilding and Green Economic Recovery in the Context of Russia’s War against Ukraine
2024
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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…
Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict—50 Years of Effort, and No End in Sight
2023
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Environment and Security
Michael Bothe
The debate about environmental protection in relation to armed conflict began around 1970 due to the meeting of two political movements: on the one hand,…
Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning
2024
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Nature
Joshua Fisher, Summer Allen, Greg Yetman, and Linda Pistolesi
The urgency of interconnected social-ecological dilemmas such as rapid biodiversity loss, habitat loss and fragmentation, and the escalating climate crisis have led to increased calls…
Assessing Damage to Agricultural Fields from Military Actions in Ukraine: An Integrated Approach Using Statistical Indicators and Machine Learning
2023
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International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Nataliia Kussul, Sofiia Drozd, Hanna Yailymova, Andril Shelestov, Guido Lemoine, and Klaus Deininger
The ongoing full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to widespread damage of agricultural lands, jeopardizing global food security. Timely detection of impacted fields enables…
The Scars beyond Bullets: Recognizing the Environmental Toll of War
2024
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International Journal of Science and Research Archive
Titilayo Aishat Otukoya
Warfare, throughout history, has not only shaped geopolitical landscapes but has left an indelible mark on the environment. The unintended consequences of armed conflicts extend…
The Unprecedented Ramsar Resolution: Ukrainian Wetlands Protection in Armed Confict
2024
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Netherlands International Law Review
Meng Wang
Armed conflict has devastating environmental consequences, adversely impacting critical ecosystems and natural resources. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February…
A Review of Climate Security Risk Assessment Tools
2024
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Environment and Security
Barbora Šedová, Lisa Binder, and Lukas Rüttinger
To address climatic risks to human security, various climate security risk assessment (CSRA) tools have been developed. We have systematically reviewed 28 such tools against…
Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: El Salvador
2023
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adelphi
Herman Rosa Chávez, Daria Ivleva, Héctor Morales Munoz, Katarina Schulz, Beatice Mosello, and Lukas Rüttinger
El Salvador is one of the countries forming the Central American Dry Corridor. The Central American Dry Corridor faces poor distribution of irregular rain, drought,…
Can Crimes of Ecocide Committed during the Conflict in Ukraine be Legally Punished?
2023
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Law and World
Sophie Joubert
The conflict in Ukraine is not only taking a heavy toll on human lives but also significantly impacting the environment and wildlife. Many natural areas…
Using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to Track Land Use/Land Cover Changes Due to Armed Conflict
2023
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Science of The Total Environment
Saeed Mhanna, Landon J.S. Halloran, François Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, and Philip Brunner
Armed conflicts have detrimental impacts on the environment, including land systems. The prevailing understanding of the relation between Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and armed conflict…
Conflict in South Asia: Water Scarcity, Conservation, and Politics
2023
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Pakistan Horizon
Reumah Suhail
This paper analyses the water dilemma in South Asia. The first part looks at water availability in the region followed by an analysis of neighbourly…
Even after Armed Conflict, the Environmental Quality of Indigenous Peoples' Lands in Biodiversity Hotspots Surpasses that of Non-Indigenous Lands
2023
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Biological Conservation
Madeline Beattie, Julia E. Fa, Ian Leiper, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Kerstin K. Zander, and Stephen T. Garnett
Indigenous Peoples lands cover over a fifth of the world's land surface and support high levels of biodiversity. However, for centuries Indigenous Peoples have suffered…
Revealing the Governance Dynamics of the Coffee Chain in Colombia: A State-of-the-Art Review
2023
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University of Bologna
Antonella Samoggia and Andrea Fantini
Coffee is one of the most highly traded commodities in global markets. However, the coffee sector experiences significant value chain asymmetries and inequalities, both at…
Indigenous Peoples, Gender, and Natural Resource Management
2005
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Danish Institute for Internaitonal Studies
Caecilie Mikkelsen
It is generally assumed that both gender and ethnicity are decisive factors in natural resource management and that changes in access to natural resources have…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility
2023
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Routledge
Carl Bruch, Geeta Batra, and Anupam Anand, with Shehla Chowdhury and Sierra Killian
This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.
Seeking to better understand…
How Should Diverse Stakeholder Interests Shape Evaluations of Complex Water Resources Systems Robustness When Confronting Deeply Uncertain Changes?
2023
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Earth's Future
Sai Veena Sunkara, Riddhi Singh, David Gold, Patrick Reed, and Ajay Bhave
Robustness analysis can support the design and operation of large-scale water infrastructure projects confronting deeply uncertain futures. However, diverse actors, contextual specificities, sectoral interests, and…
The Politics of Supply Chain Regulations: Towards Foreign Corporate Accountability in the Area of Human Rights and the Environment?
2023
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Regulation & Governance
Maria-Therese Gustafsson and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
In recent years, binding regulations in the “home states” of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountable…
Ukraine: Ground Zero
2023
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Al Jazeera
Nick Lazaredes
Ukraine is home to some of the most biodiverse and unique ecosystems on the planet, and its rich fertile plains provide food to the world.…