Livelihoods, Empowerment, & Governance
Resources
Agriculture as a Funding Source of ISIS: A GIS and Remote Sensing Analysis
Briefs & Development
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…
Assembling Evidence for a Land and Property Restitution Database during the Syrian Civil War
Briefs & Development
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.…
Can Community-Based Land Adjudication and Registration Improve Household Land Tenure Security? Evidence from Afghanistan
Briefs & Development
Unlike in many developing contexts, land title regularization and registration projects in Afghanistan have for the most part eschewed judicial adjudication and recording of title…
The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar: A Dispatch from an Internet Revolution in Progress
Briefs & Development
For six weeks last October and November, just before Myanmar held its landmark elections, I joined a team of design ethnographers in the countryside interviewing…
Online Identification of Conflict Related Environmental Damage
Blog
In this blog, Wim Zwinenburg (PAX) and Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat) discuss the open source intelligence tools that they used to recover data on environmental damage…
Climate Data Can Be Critical in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States – Here’s How to Get It
Blog
When war breaks out, what happens to the weather forecast? Violent conflict disrupts many essential services in developing countries and one of the most overlooked…
Accessing and Using Climate Data and Information in Fragile Data-Poor States
Briefs & Development
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,…
Use of Upgraded Evidence in Cadaster Approaches for Syrian Refugee Return
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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…
Early Warning Early Action in East Africa: Mechanisms for Rapid Decision Making
Briefs & Development
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…
Evidencing the Restitution Landscape: Pre-emptive and Advance Techniques for War-torn Land and Property Rights Reacquisition
Briefs & Development
The enormity of civilian population dislocation during armed conflicts, and the importance – yet difficulty – of reattaching people to lands and properties subsequent to…
The Earth Security Index 2014
Toolkits & Guidance
Our world is in the midst of a major geopolitical shift. New emerging powers are becoming important actors in a multi-polar international system, many of which are facing resource…
Human Dimensions of Land Use and Land Cover Change Related to Civil Unrest in the Imatong Mountains of South Sudan
Briefs & Development
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…
Registering the Human Terrian: A Valuation of Cadastre
Toolkits & Guidance
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…
Modernizing Insecurity: The Land Titling Project in Honduras
Briefs & Development
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,…
Environmental Justice Atlas [Interactive Map]
Multimedia
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…