Environmental Degradation
Environmental degradation is closely related to conflict. It can be a contributing cause of conflict. Conflict often causes environmental degradation through intentional targeting of the environment, coping strategies, and the breakdown of environmental governance. After conflict, environmental degradation can affect post-conflict livelihoods and other recovery efforts. Technologies from GIS to early warning systems can help track, understand, and redress environmental degradation.
There are 62 resources related to Environmental Degradation.
Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Peace
2024
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PAX and UNEP
As the connections between environmental degradation and conflict become increasingly clear, the potential of nature in peacebuilding is more significant than ever. This catalog of Nature-based…
Modelling Armed Conflict Risk under Climate Change with Machine Learning and Time-Series Data
2022
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Nature Communications
Quansheng Ge, Mengmeng Hao, Fangyu Ding, Dong Jiang, Jürgen Scheffran, David Helman, and Tobias Ide
Understanding the risk of armed conflict is essential for promoting peace. Although the relationship between climate variability and armed conflict has been studied by the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Accessing and Using Climate Data and Information in Fragile Data-Poor States
2015
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
Simon Mason, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Pietro Ceccato, and Alec Crawford
The vulnerability of populations in fragile states to weather and climate variability is typically much higher than in other countries. These countries, and their populations,…
Charting Environmental Conflict -- The Atlas of Environmental Justice
2016
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The Ecologist
Nick Meynen
On 22 June, 100s of people came together in Brussels to mourn for Jo Cox. There was a minute of silence even in the Belgian…
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…
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…
Toward the Remote Monitoring of Armed Conflicts
2023
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PNAS Nexus
Valerie Sticher, Jan D. Wegner, and Birke Pfeifle
The war in Ukraine has pushed the role of satellite imagery in armed conflicts into the spotlight. For a long time, satellite images were primarily…
Artificial Intelligence for Climate Security: Possibilities and Challenges
2023
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SIPRI
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Projecting Long-Term Armed Conflict Risk: An Underappreciated Field of Inquiry?
2022
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Global Environmental Change
Sophie P. de Bruin, Jannis M. Hoch, Nina von Uexkull, Halvard Buhaug, Jolle Demmers, Hans Visser, and Niko Wanders
Little research has been done on projecting long-term conflict risks. Such projections are currently neither included in the development of socioeconomic scenarios or climate change…
Understanding the Nexus of Energy, Environment and Conflict: An Overview
2021
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Samuel W. Kerber, Alexander Q. Gilbert, Mark R. Deinert, and Morgan D. Bazilian
Energy, environment, and conflict are each the subject of significant research efforts. However, their nexus has received relatively little attention, and even less when climatic…
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…
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…
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…
Revisiting the Contested Role of Natural Resources in Violent Conflict Risk through Machine Learning
2020
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Sustainability
Marie K. Schellens and Salim Belyazid
The integrated character of the sustainable development goals in Agenda 2030, as well as research in environmental security, flag that sustainable peace requires sustainable and…
Eyes in the Sky (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Eoghan Darbyshire
Regions of active conflict are typically data poor, access for environmental measurements is limited and many contemporary conflicts show no sign of conclusion. Earth observation…
Experiential Education in the Context of Environmental Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Tejedores de Vida in Colombia
2020
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Malmo University
Romane Boyer
An innovative approach has emerged to consolidate peacebuilding efforts in conflict-affected context using experiential education with an environmental perspective. Yet, little research has explored the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Complexity Analysis of Sustainable Peace: Mathematical Models and Data Science Measurements
2019
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New Journal of Physics
L. Liebovitch, P. Coleman, A. Bechhofer, C. Colon, J. Donahue, C. Eisenbach, L. Guzmán-Vargas, D. Jacobs, A. Khan, C Li, D. Maksumov, J Mucia, M. Persaud, M. Salimi, L. Schweiger, and Q. Wang
Peace is not merely the absence of war and violence, rather 'positive peace' is the political, economic, and social systems that generate and sustain peaceful…
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…