Natural Resources
The exploitation of natural resources is well known to affect the peace and security dynamics through exacerbating existing grievances, motivating greed, and ultimately financing and driving conflict. This exploitation, in addition, is often highly degrading for the surrounding environment and tends to be linked to negative socioeconomic dynamics such as poor benefit sharing practices, exclusion of vulnerable groups, unemployment and lack of livelihood options. Against these problematics, frontier technologies offer significant tools to address them through, for example, the use of Earth Observation for monitoring of exploitation to ensure sustainability and environmental protection, or employing blockchain to ensure benefit-sharing arrangements that contribute to local well-being and development.
There are 98 resources related to Natural Resources.
Environmental Justice Atlas [Interactive Map]
EJOLT
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well…
Geographies of Conflict
2014
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OXFAM America
Anthony Bebbington and John Rogan
Ghana and Peru have experienced dramatic growth in their mining and hydrocarbons sectors in recent years, and both countries have also experienced conflict between local…
Solar-Powered Irrigation in Yemen: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policies
2021
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Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies
Musaed M. Aklan and Helen Lackner
Yemen is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, with renewable water resources currently capable of providing only 75 m3 per capita per…
A River of Death: How Oil Pollution is Impacting Health and Livelihoods in Conflict-Affected North East Syria
2020
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PAX
Wim Zwijnenburg and Yifang Shi
A River of Death shows how persistent pollution from a degrading oil facility has led to tens-of-thousands of barrels of oil flowing into canals and…
Land Titles and Violent Conflict in Rural Mexico
2020
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Journal of Development Economics
Paul Castaneda Dower and Tobias Pfutze
Better enforcement of property rights reduces the incentives to engage in violent competition over resources. At the same time, greater tenure security may disrupt a…
The Blue Peace Index 2019
2019
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Economist
The Blue Peace Index assesses management of shared water resources across five pillars: Policy & legal frameworks, Institutional arrangements & participation, Water management instruments, Infrastructure…
Fair and Equitable Approach Using GIS for Solving the Krishna River Conflict, India
2019
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University of Moratuwa
Siddharth Chaudhary, Durga Prasad Panday, and Duraprasad Panday
Conflict occurs between people in all kinds of human relationships and in all social settings. Because of the wide range of potential differences among people,…
Backdraft #9: Joshua Busby on Mapping Hotspots of Climate and Security Vulnerability [Podcast]
2017
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New Security Beat
Gretchen Johnson
Maps help us to grasp complex ideas, such as patterns of risk and vulnerability, but the stories they tell can have significant implications. “It’s very…
Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Prediction in the Kathmandu District of Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
2020
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Sustainability Journal
Sonam W. Wang, Belay M. Gebru, Munkhnasan Lamchin, Rijan B. Kayastha, and Woo-Kyun Lee
Understanding land use and land cover changes has become a necessity in managing and monitoring natural resources and development especially urban planning. Remote sensing and…
Deforestation in Colombian Protected Areas Increased during Post-Conflict Periods
2020
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Scientific Reports
N. Clerici, D. Armenteras, P. Kareiva, R. Botero, J.P. Ramirez-Delgado, G. Forero-Medina, J. Ochoa, C. Pedraza, L. Schneider, C. Lora, C. Gomez, M. Linares, C. Hirashiki, and D. Biggs
Protected areas (PAs) are a foundational and essential strategy for reducing biodiversity loss. However, many PAs around the world exist on paper only; thus, while…
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…
Human Dimensions of Land Use and Land Cover Change Related to Civil Unrest in the Imatong Mountains of South Sudan
2012
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Applied Geography
Virginia Gorsevski, Martha Geores, and Eric Kasischke
Civil unrest disrupts not only the lives of people in the impacted area, but also the environment in ways not well understood. While armed conflict…
Funding Rebellion: The Rebel Contraband Dataset
2018
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Journal of Peace
James Igoe Walsh, Justin M. Conrad, Beth Elise Whitaker, and Katelin M. Hudak
We introduce a new dataset measuring if and how rebel groups earn income from the exploitation of natural resources or criminal activities. The Rebel Contraband…
Composite Water Management Index
2018
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National Institute for Transforming India Aayog
India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and millions of lives and livelihoods are under threat. Currently, 600 million Indians face…
The Effects of Migration on Livelihoods, Land Management, and Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in the Harpan Watershed in Western Nepal
2016
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Mountain Research and Development
Stéphanie Jaquet, Gitta Shrestha, Thomas Kohler, and Gudrun Schwilch
Migration is increasing in the middle hills of Nepal, and it has diverse consequences for the people remaining behind, their livelihoods, and the way they…
Modernizing Insecurity: The Land Titling Project in Honduras
1998
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Development and Change
Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas
The Honduran land titling project (the Proyecto de Titulación de Tierra para los Pequeños Productores), initiated in 1982, was intended to enhance security in land rights,…
Early Warning Early Action in East Africa: Mechanisms for Rapid Decision Making
2014
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International Committee of the Red Cross, World Food Programme, Oxfam, Food and Agriculture Organization, Save the Children
International Committee of the Red Cross, World Food Programme, Oxfam, Food and Agriculture Organization, Save the Children
The crisis in the Horn of Africa and the declaration of famine conditions in parts of Somalia in 2011 provided renewed impetus to break, once…
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…
Afghanistan Drought Early Warning Decision Support (AF-DEWS) Tool
2023
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International Water Management Institute
Giriraj Amarnath, Surajit Ghosh, and Niranga Alahacoon
This report summarizes the development of the Afghanistan Drought Early Warning Decision Support (AF-DEWS) Tool, a cloud-based online platform with near real-time information on drought…
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…
Blockchain for Environmental Peacebuilding: Application in Water Management
2023
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Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance
Fariz Huseynov and Jeanene Mitchell
The purpose of this paper is to spur further exploration of blockchain technologies for environmental peacebuilding, specifically through water management. Although the environmental peacebuilding field…
Housing, Land and Property as War-Financing Commodities: A Typology with Lessons from Darfur, Colombia, and Syria
2022
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Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
Jon Unruh
The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities -- diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. -- to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with…
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…
Yemen’s Disappearing Date Palms: Applied Environmental OSINT
2020
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bellingcat
Wim Zwijnenburg
The lush, idyllic region in Hudaydah, on the west coast of Yemen, featuring wadis and fertile valleys, was a place known for its date palm…
Soils of the Southern Syria – A Big Database for the Future Land Management Planning
2020
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Data in Brief
Safwan Mohammed, Hassan Habib, Haidar Ali, Sami AlHennaw, Samer Kiwan, Samar Ghanem, Karam Alsafadi, Eric C. Brevik, Magboul M. Suleiman, and Endre Harsányi
As non-renewable natural resources, restoring Syrian soil quality is a vital issue for sustainable future planning after conflict ends. The data provided in this research…
Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar
2020
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European Journal of Development Research
Joan Bastide, Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, and Stefan Bächtold
Amid Myanmar’s political transition and despite its new government’s discourse of inclusion and dialogue, land conflicts have increased across the country’s ethnic-minority areas. We argue…
Water and Violence: Cyber Attacks and Cyber Warfare
2019
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Blue Peace Bulletin
The Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace called for protection of water resources and infrastructure from violent conflicts and terrorist acts. In this…
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…
Fires in Protected Areas Reveal Unforeseen Costs of Colombian Peace
2019
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Third World Quaterly
Quint Hoekstra
Armed conflict, and its end, can have powerful effects on natural resources, but the influence of war and peace on highly biodiverse tropical forests remains…