Management Tools
There is a large and growing range of tools that environmental peacebuilding practitioners can use to aid their efforts. Technologies to support project and data management including, geographic information systems (GIS), cadasters, decision support systems, modelling software, and descriptive and prescriptive analytics, can support efforts in monitoring and evaluation and provide practitioners with important early warnings to help inform proactive project management.
There are 49 resources related to Management Tools.
Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Horizon Scanning of Opportunities & Risks
2024
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UNEP and EnPAx
Albert Martinez Sequero, Asim Zia, Carl Bruch, David Jensen, and Silja Halle, with Theresa Dearden, Benjamin Dills, Mirza Sadaqat Huda, Richard A. Matthew, Samantha Murphy, Shanna McClain, Albert Martinez Sequero, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Alejandro Martín
This report specifically delves into how digital technologies can be harnessed to manage environmental and natural resource risks that contribute to insecurity and social conflict,…
Spatial and Political Factors in Forest Resource Conflicts: The Eastern Mau Forest Case 1992–2014
2019
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Society and Natural Resources
R. Kweyu, K. Kiemo, T. Thenya, J. Emborg, and C. Gamborg
This paper examines conflicts and forest resource politics in Eastern Mau, which is part of the Mau forest complex in Kenya. Conflict hotspots are mapped…
Geocollaboration in Environmental Inspection Activities in the Environmental Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State – Brazil
2020
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Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego
Eduardo Frederico Cabral de Oliveira, José Augusto Silva, José Francisco Oliveira Júnior, and Jader Lugon Junior
The cost of geotechnologies are becoming more accessible. The capacity to generate real-time maps with ubiquitous access and applications based on geocollaborative platforms developed for…
Geocollaboration in Environmental Inspection Activities in the Environmental Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State – Brazil
2020
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Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego
Eduardo Frederico Cabral de Oliveira; José Augusto Silva, José Francisco Oliveira Junior, and Jader Lugon Junior
The cost of geotechnologies are becoming more accessible. The capacity to generate real-time maps with ubiquitous access and applications based on geocollaborative platforms developed for…
Afghanistan Environmental Data Centre
2016
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GISC
Sara Hodges
The Afghanistan Environmental Data Centre (AEDC), a co-operative venture between UNEP and the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA), funded by UK Department for International Development…
Fishers' Rights Matter: Mapping Small-Scale Fisheries Landing and Smoking Sites in Liberia to Assess Environmental and Legal Risks to Their Tenure Rights
2025
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Environmental Justice Foundation
Liberia’s small-scale fisheries are the backbone of coastal livelihoods, but they face mounting threats from coastal erosion, mangrove destruction, and insecure land rights. Fishing communities’…
Geostatistical Assessment of the Impact of World War I on the Spatial Occurrence of Soil Heavy Metals
2011
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Europe PMC
Eef Meerschman, Liesbet Cockx, Mohammad Monirul Islam, Fun Meeuws, and Marc Van Meirvenne
Previous research showed a regional Cu enrichment of 6 mg kg(-1) in the top soil of the Ypres war zone (Belgium), caused by corrosion of…
Mapping and Analysing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Conflict Areas
2020
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Ecological Indicators
Frederico Santarém, Jarkko Saarinen, and José Carlos Brito
Human-mediated global environmental change threatens ecosystem services worldwide. Detailed cultural ecosystem services mapping is crucial to counteract ecosystem degradation, but such mapping exercises have been…
Mapping and Analysing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Conflict Areas
2020
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Ecological Indicators
Frederico Santarém, Jarkko Saarinen, and José Carlos Brito
Human-mediated global environmental change threatens ecosystem services worldwide. Detailed cultural ecosystem services mapping is crucial to counteract ecosystem degradation, but such mapping exercises have been…
Tracing Toxic Legacies: GIS and the Dispersed Violence of Agent Orange
2019
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Journal of War and Cultural Studies
Daniel Grinberg
This article will discuss the U.S. military’s spraying of toxic defoliants over Vietnam from 1961 to 1971. It will first frame these attacks’ diffuse material…
Armed Conflict and Child Mortality in Africa: A Geospatial Analysis
2018
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The Lancet
Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft-Neal, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Robert E. Black, Marshall Burke, and Eran Bendavid
A substantial portion of child deaths in Africa take place in countries with recent history of armed conflict and political instability. However, the extent to…
Does Artisanal Mining Increase the Risk of Sexual Violence? Micro-Level Evidence from Eastern Congo
2016
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Quality in Primary Care
Siri Aas Rustad, Gudrun Østby, and Ragnhild Nordås Quality in Primary Care 1-Jan-16
DR Congo’s natural resource abundance has featured in policy debates and amongst advocacy groups as the prime example of ‘conflict minerals’ driving conflict-related sexual violence.…
Agriculture as a Funding Source of ISIS: A GIS and Remote Sensing Analysis
2016
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Food Policy
Hadi H. Jaafar and Eckart Woertz
Agriculture is an important source of income for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which currently rules over large parts of the breadbaskets…
Land Use and Land Cover Changes along the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipelines – Monitoring Infrastructure Development in Remote Conflict-Prone Regions
2020
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PLoS ONE
Thiri S. Aung, Thomas B. Fischer, and John Buchanan
Energy infrastructures can have negative impacts on the environment. In remote and / or sparsely populated as well as in conflict-prone regions, these can be…
The Power of Real-World Qualitative Assessments for Addressing Climate Security Risks
2023
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Climate Diplomacy
Hector Morales-Munoz
Qualitative research can uncover hidden drivers and connectors, reveal unintended consequences, and generate contextualised and actionable knowledge by delving into the lived experiences, perceptions, values,…
GIS in Colombian Post-Conflict Land Use Planning
2021
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Procedia Environmental Science, Engineering and Management
Hernán Granda-Rodriguez, Jenny Patricia-Vanegas, Daniel Robledo-Buitrago, John Jairo Castañeda, Edier Fernando Ávila-Vélez, and Miguel A. De Luque-Villa
This research collected and interpreted geographic and temporal data on changes in land use coverage in order to improve sustainable development and land use planning in…
Violent Natural Resource Conflicts: From Definitions to Prevention
2020
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Stockholm University
Marie K. Schellens
General scientific consensus is growing that natural resources play an important role in violent conflicts. Both scarcity and abundance contribute to violent conflict, depending on…
Vulnerabilities and Inequalities Experienced by Women in the Climate Change Discourse in South Africa’s Rural Communities: Implications for Social Work
2020
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The British Journal of Social Work
Louis Nyahunda, Jabulani Calvin Makhubele, Vincent Mabvurira, and Frans Koketso Matlakala
Women’s vulnerability to climate-induced shocks hinges on a high dependence on climate-sensitive livelihoods and a natural resource base aggravated by the acute inequalities that they…
The Compounding Impacts of Climate Change and Environmental Degradation on the Insecurity of Indigenous Women in West Papua
2020
Szilvia Csevar
Located on the western half of the island of New Guinea, West Papua* is a militarized territory, site to a long-term conflict between Indonesia and…
A Transdisciplinary-Based Coupled Approach for Vulnerability Assessment in the Context of Natural Resource-Based Conflicts Using Remote Sensing, Spatial Statistics and Fuzzy Logic Adapted Model
2019
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Lawrence Monday Ibeh
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stated that across the globe, at least 40% of all conflicts in the last 60 years are linked to…
The Middle East: Blue Strike List
2019
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Blue Peace Bulletin
The Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace has observed that the increasing tendency to use water resources and infrastructure as targets or as weapons…
Exploring Community Resilience and Early Warning Solution for Flash Floods, Debris Flow and Landslides in Conflict Prone Villages of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
2019
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Ashutosh Mohanty, Mujahid Hussain, M. Mishra, D.B. Kattel, and Indrajit Pal
There is a visible paradigm shift in disaster research from hazard and vulnerability assessment to developing framework for community resilience. Further, there is growing recognization…
Assembling Evidence for a Land and Property Restitution Database during the Syrian Civil War
2016
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World Bank
Jon Unruh
The enormity of the refugee population generated by the Syrian civil war will present significant dilemmas for land and property restitution once the war ends.…
Use of Upgraded Evidence in Cadaster Approaches for Syrian Refugee Return
2015
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World Cadastre Congress
Jon D. Unruh
The enormity of the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, together with the difficulties of their livelihoods and the burden placed on host…
Use of Upgraded Evidence in Cadaster Approaches for Syrian Refugee Return
2015
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McGill University
Jon D. Unruh
The enormity of the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, together with the difficulties of their livelihoods and the burden placed on host…
Registering the Human Terrian: A Valuation of Cadastre
2008
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National Intelligence University
Douglas Batson
By tying a name to a place, a cadastre can answer the difficult “who” question: who is behind a given problem? A cadastre can also…
Operation Epic Fury: Emerging Environmental Harm and Risks in Iran and the Region
2026
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
An updated overview of emerging environmental issues and perspectives arising from Operation Epic Fury in Iran, Israel, and the Gulf States. CEOBS has seen a…
Text Mining and Machine Learning Reveal Global Determinants of Food Insecurity
2025
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Scientific Reports
Bia Carneiro, Giuliano Resce, Nicola Caravaggio, Agapito Emanuele Santangelo, Giosue Ruscica, Giulia Tucci, Grazia Pacillo, Gary Eilerts, Peter Laderach, and Kevin Coffey
This study applies Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to investigate global historical trends in food security. Using USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems…
Data Collection in Fragile States
2025
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Nature Food
Shahriar Kibriya and Naureen Fatema
Monitoring food security in regions experiencing multiple crises remains challenging. Satellite imagery combined with artificial intelligence can now estimate food availability in the fragile state…
Using Strata: A Geospatial Tool for Integrated Analysis and Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]
2024
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UNEP, FAO, and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
UNEP and FAO are proud to present the latest version of Strata: a geospatial data platform that identifies and tracks where environmental, climate, and security…