Forests Publications
Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
May 14, 2013Amid the growing number of reports warning that climate change threatens security, one potentially dangerous – but counterintuitive – dimension has been largely ignored. Could efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and lower our vulnerability to climate change inadvertently exacerbate existing conflicts? more
Climate Change Adaptation and Peacebuilding in Africa: An Adaptation Partnership Workshop Report
Apr 04, 2013A workshop report focused on three areas of intersection that have dominated discussions of climate and security links in developing country contexts. more
Issue 22: Coffee and Community: Combining Agribusiness and Health in Rwanda
Jul 12, 2011Author Irene Kitzantides describes the SPREAD Project's integration of agribusiness development with community health care and education, including family planning, in Rwanda. more
Environmental Peacemaking: Conditions for Success
Jul 07, 2011Alexander Carius identifies the conditions under which environmental cooperation best facilitates conflict transformation and peacebuilding, and which forms of negotiation or stakeholder participation have been particularly successful. more
Report From Africa: Population, Health, Environment, and Conflict
Jul 07, 2011Complete set of commentaries on population, health, environment, and conflict in Africa by Wangari Maathai, Marc Ravalomanana, John Katunga, Milline J. Mbonile, Nana K. Poku, Anthony Nyong, Kenneth Omeje, and Patricia Kameri-Mbote. more
ECSP Report 8: Bibliography
Jul 07, 2011Literature that has come to the attention of ECSP in the past year on population, environmental change, and security issues. more
ECSP Report 4: Bibliography
Jul 07, 2011The following bibliography is a compilation of all entries from the three previous ECSP Reports and new additions from the last year. The Guide includes a wide range of publications, organized by theme, which relate to the various conceptions of environmental security. more
Issue 21: Population, Health, and Environment in Ethiopia
Jul 07, 2011Severely eroded and deforested, Ethiopia's land is increasingly turning to desert, due to the country's high population growth, unsustainable land use, and lack of land ownership. Featuring footage from Sean Peoples' trip to Ethiopia last year, this video looks at the efforts of two projects to address the country's complex challenges with integrated solutions. more
Environment, Population, and Health: Strategies for a More Secure World
Jul 07, 2011Countries that are overwhelmed by environmental problems tend to develop political and economic problems, writes Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. more
