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A Digital Revolution to Save Nature and Build Peace
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The revolution in space-based technologies is creating a wealth of opportunities to track environmental degradation and its impact on lives and livelihoods. From rapid urbanisation…
Lack of Flood Maps at Many U.S. Military Bases Creates Risks
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In the 2020 NDAA, Congress further required that DoD include in its’ installation master plans a discussion of risks and threats that included those from extreme…
Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Prediction in the Kathmandu District of Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
Briefs & Development
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…
Mapping Untreated and Semi-Treated Wastewater Effluent off the Coast of Gaza with Sentinel-1 Time Series Data
Briefs & Development
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most contested and complicated conflicts in the world. As one of the occupied Palestinian Territories recognized by the…
Land Use and Land Cover Changes along the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipelines – Monitoring Infrastructure Development in Remote Conflict-Prone Regions
Briefs & Development
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…
Satellite Imagery in Conflict-Affected Areas: How Technology Can Support WFP Emergency Response
Briefs & Development
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…
Eyes in the Sky (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
Briefs & Development
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…
Closing the Environmental Monitoring Gap in Conflicts (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
Briefs & Development
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…
Illuminating Dark Fishing Fleets in North Korea
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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…
A River of Death: How Oil Pollution is Impacting Health and Livelihoods in Conflict-Affected North East Syria
Briefs & Development
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…
Yemen’s Disappearing Date Palms: Applied Environmental OSINT
Briefs & Development
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…
Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar
Briefs & Development
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…
Geocollaboration in Environmental Inspection Activities in the Environmental Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State – Brazil
Briefs & Development
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
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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…
Mapping and Analysing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Conflict Areas
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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…
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
Briefs & Development
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…
Spatial and Political Factors in Forest Resource Conflicts: The Eastern Mau Forest Case 1992–2014
Briefs & Development
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…
Fires in Protected Areas Reveal Unforeseen Costs of Colombian Peace
Briefs & Development
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…
Temperature Extremes, Global Warming, and Armed Conflict: New Insights From High Resolution Data
Briefs & Development
This paper contributes to the debate whether climate change and global warming cause conflicts by providing novel evidence about the role of extreme temperature events…
Fair and Equitable Approach Using GIS for Solving the Krishna River Conflict, India
Briefs & Development
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,…
Tracing Toxic Legacies: GIS and the Dispersed Violence of Agent Orange
Briefs & Development
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…
MapX: An Open Geospatial Platform to Manage, Analyze and Visualize Data on Natural Resources and the Environment
Briefs & Development
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…
Fires in Protected Areas Reveal Unforeseen Costs of Colombian Peace
Briefs & Development
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…
Natural Resource Wars in the Shadow of the Future: Explaining Spatial Dynamics of Violence during Civil War
Briefs & Development
Previous studies on natural resources and civil wars find that the presence of natural resources increases both civil conflict risk and duration. At the same…
Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security: Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State
Briefs & Development
As the world’s most traded commodity, oil production is typically well monitored and analyzed. It also has established links to geopolitics, international relations, and security. Despite this attention,…
Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Forest Cover Change in Teknaf, Bangladesh
Briefs & Development
Following a targeted campaign of violence by Myanmar military, police, and local militias, more than half a million Rohingya refugees have fled to neighboring Bangladesh…
Armed Conflict and Child Mortality in Africa: A Geospatial Analysis
Briefs & Development
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…
Composite Water Management Index
Briefs & Development
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…