Digital Governance
Digital governance becomes increasingly important to build more transparency and informational equity. This includes building more open source datasets and having governments partner with the privatized cyber industry to ensure accessible data. Digital governance can also place checks and balances for better cybersecurity.
There are 32 resources related to Digital Governance.
Food and Water Insecurity as Causes of Social Unrest: Evidence from Geolocated Twitter Data
2021
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Journal of Peace Research
Ore Koren, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, and Thomas S. Benson
Research often fails to account for the specific pathways by which climatic factors can cause social unrest. One challenge lies in understanding the distinct effects…
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…
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…
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…
Artificial Intelligence for Climate Security: Possibilities and Challenges
2023
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Kyungmee Kim and Vincent Boulanin
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—largely based on machine learning—offer possibilities for addressing climate-related security risks. AI can, for example, be used for developing disaster…
Knowledge Gaps in the Nexus of Climate, Peace and Security
2023
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Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping & Peacebuilding
Thor Olav Iversen and Fareeda Khalifa
There is a growing body of research on the relationship between climate change and peace and security. Research shows that the effects of climate change…
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…
Climate Change and Fragility: Improving Early Warning and Climate-Proofing Development and Conflict Interventions (chapter in "Handbook of Fragile States")
2023
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Elgar Handbooks in Political Science
Erin Sikorsky, Francesco Femia, and Brigitte Hugh
Climate change knows no political boundaries, yet political boundaries shape much of the response (or lack of response) to that change. In recent years, rapid…
Aqueduct: Using Cutting-Edge Data to Identify and Evaluate Water Risks around the World
2023
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World Resources Institute
Water risks are an urgent global challenge. Most public health crises are already driven by water, including floods, droughts and water-borne diseases. Climate change is…
Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker
2023
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Center for Climate and Security, Council on Strategic Risks
This map is based on a dataset regularly updated by CCS staff, based on publicly available information, tracking the date, location, actors, and circumstances of…
Traveling Virtually to the Pacific - The UN Uses Virtual Reality for Advocacy on Climate Security [Video]
2022
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UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Together with the Government of Japan, the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UN DPPA) developed a Virtual Reality (VR) experience on climate change…
The Impact of Conflict-Driven Cropland Abandonment on Food Insecurity in South Sudan Revealed Using Satellite Remote Sensing
2021
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Nature Food
Victor Mackenhauer Olsen, Rasmus Fensholt, Pontus Olofsson, Rogerio Bonifacio, Van Butsic, Daniel Druce, Deepak Ray, and Alexander V. Prishchepov
Armed conflicts often hinder food security through cropland abandonment and restrict the collection of on-the-ground information required for targeted relief distribution. Satellite remote sensing provides…
Solving the Jigsaw of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage: Utilizing Open-Source Analysis to Improve Research into Environmental Health Risks
2020
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Journal of Public Health
Wim Zwijnenburg, David Hochhauser, Omar Dewachi, Richard Sullivan, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Investigation of the environmental impacts of armed conflict has been made easier in recent years with the development of new and improved methods for documenting…
Armed Conflict, Militarization and Ecological Footprint: Empirical Evidence from South Asia
2021
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Journal of Cleaner Production
Unbreen Qayyum, Sohail Anjum, and Samina Sabirc
Environmental degradation as a consequence of military activities largely remains a neglected subject, especially in South Asia. To fill this gap, we have investigated the…
Solving the Jigsaw of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage: Utilizing Open-Source Analysis to Improve Research into Environmental Health Risks
2020
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Journal of Public Health
Wim Zwijnenburg, David Hochhauser, Omar Dewachi, Richard Sullivan, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Investigation of the environmental impacts of armed conflict has been made easier in recent years with the development of new and improved methods for documenting…
Satellite Imagery in Conflict-Affected Areas: How Technology Can Support WFP Emergency Response
2020
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World Food Programme
Laure Boudinand and Amadou Ibrahim
The past decade has witnessed a boom in the availability of satellite data whether from established space agencies or from the private sector. Unique in…
Closing the Environmental Monitoring Gap in Conflicts (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Doug Weir
Armed conflicts can create acute environmental risks and lead to degradation that impacts ecosystems, human health and livelihoods. However, poor security conditions in conflict-impacted areas…
Global Peace Index 2020: Measuring Peace in a Complex World
2020
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Institute for Economics & Peace
Institute for Economics & Peace
This is the 14th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. Produced…
Illuminating Dark Fishing Fleets in North Korea
2020
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Science Advances
Jaeyoon Park, Jungsam Lee, Katherine Seto, Timothy Hochberg, Brian Wong, Nathan Miller, Kenji Takasaki, Hiroshi Kubota, Yoshioki Oozeki, Sejal Doshi, Maya Midzik, Quentin Hanich, Brian Sullivan, Paul Woods, and David A. Kroodsma
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing threatens resource sustainability and equity. A major challenge with such activity is that most fishing vessels do not broadcast their…
Climate Security: The Role of Data and Disruptive Technologies for Climate Security
2020
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CGIAR
Alexandra Krendelsberger and Nam Nguyen
A systemic analysis of the role that climate, natural resource and food systems play in conflict and peace is key to design and implement interventions…
Colombia's Cyberinfrastructure for Biodiversity: Building Data Infrastructure in Emerging Countries to Foster Socioeconomic Growth
2020
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Plants People Planet
Jose De Vega, Robert P. Davey, Jorge Duitama, Dairo Escobar, Marco A. Cristancho‐Ardila, Graham J. Etherington, Alice Minotto, Nelson E. Arenas‐Suarez, Juan D. Pineda‐Cardenas, Javier Correa‐Alvarez, Anyela V. Camargo Rodriguez, Wilfried Haerty, Juan P
Colombia is a “megadiverse” country with vast natural resources. A history of recent conflict means that information is only now being collected on the natural…
How Big Data and New Technologies Can Advance Climate Security [Audio]
2020
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UN Dispatch
Mark Leon Goldberg
How can data and novel technologies be put to better use in the service of peace building, resilience, and other aspects of climate security? In…
Leveraging Water Data in a Machine-Learning Based Model for Forecasting Violent Conflict
2020
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World Resources Institute
Samantha Kuzma, Peter Kerins, Elizabeth Saccoccia, Cayla Whiteside, Hannes Roos, and Charles Iceland
We present a methodology to forecast conflict (defined as organized violence resulting in at least 10 fatalities over a 12-month period) up to a year…
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…
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…
MapX: An Open Geospatial Platform to Manage, Analyze and Visualize Data on Natural Resources and the Environment
2019
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Science Direct
Pierre Lacroix, Frédéric Moser, Antonio Benvenuti, Thomas Piller, David Jensen, Inga Petersen, Marion Planque, and Nicolas Ray
This paper describes MapX, a spatial data infrastructure that aims to support the sustainable use of natural resources and the environment by increasing access to…
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…
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…
Online Identification of Conflict Related Environmental Damage
2015
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Bellingcat
Wim Zwijnenburg
With the conflict in Syria soon to enter its fifth year, large parts of the country have been laid to waste by intense fighting, bombardment…
2015 Global Hunger Index: Armed Conflict and the Challenge of Hunger
2015
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Welthungerhilfe, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and Concern Worldwide
Klaus von Grebmer, Jill Bernstein, Nilam Prasai, Sandra Yin, Yisehac Yohannes, Olive Towey, Andrea Sonntag, Larissa Neubauer, and Alex de Waal
The developing world has made progress in reducing hunger since 2000. The 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the level of hunger in developing…