Monitoring
A Hippo in the Room: Predicting the Persistence and Dispersion of an Invasive Mega-Vertebrate in Colombia, South America
2021
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Biological Conservation
Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez, Rafael A. Moreno-Arias, Josefa A. Velasco, Jorge W. Moreno-Bernal, Sebastián Restrepo, Elkin A. Noguera-Urbano, María P. Baptiste, Lina M. García-Loaiza, and Germán Jiménez
Biological invasions are a big concern due to their potential to impact ecosystems, as well as local people. The hippo Hippopotamus amphibius, native to Africa,…
Nick Parker Talks to BBC about Unexpected Impacts of U.S. Conflict Minerals Legislation [Audio]
2017
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BBC World Newsday
Dominic Parker
Dominic Parker, assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics, is interviewed twice on BBC World News’ Newsday program. The topic of conversation is Parker’s research…
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…
Intrastate Environmental Peacebuilding: A Review of the Literature
2021
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World Development Journal
McKenzie F. Johnson, Luz Rodríguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos
As a discipline, environmental peacebuilding “integrates natural resource management in conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery to build resilience in communities affected by conflict” (EnPAX…
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…
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…
Intertwined but Apart: Natural Heritage in Cultural Property Protection (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Emma Cunliffe
International attention has focused on the widespread damage to cultural heritage in recent armed conflicts, with conspicuous international effects. International aid to affected sites has…
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…
Guide on Gender Mainstreaming: Environmental Management Projects
2015
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United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Gender equality is a goal in its own right, but it is also vital to the achievement of other development goals, such as poverty reduction…
A Casualty of Peace? Lessons on De-Militarizing Conservation in the Cordillera del Condor Corridor (Chapter in "Collateral Values of Natural Capital")
2019
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Springer
Saleem H. Ali
The resolution in 1998 of the armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador through environmental peace-building negotiations, creating a transboundary conservation area, have been heralded as…
USAID's Women, Peace, and Security: Implementation Plan
2020
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Unites States Agency for International Development
USAID developed this Implementation Plan to support the United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS Strategy) through concrete, effective, and coordinated action across our…
State of Environment and Outlook Report for the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2020
2020
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UN Environment Program
This report provides an overview of the current state of the environment in the occupied Palestinian territory. Building on earlier work by the United Nations…
IMPACT's Innovative Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation [Video]
2020
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Joanne Lebert, Victoria Reichel, Juha Uitto, and Amanda Woomer
In this webinar, IMPACT walked participants through its M&E system and provided examples of how the analysis generated by the data can be rendered actionable…
Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods (Monitoring and Evaluation)
2019
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adelphi, UN Environment, and European Union
This M&E note supports the monitoring and evaluation of strategies, policies and projects that seek to increase resilience by linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding, and…
Climate Change, Food, and Nutrition Policies in Uganda: Are They Gender- and Nutrition-Sensitive?
2020
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CGIAR
Patricia Ahuro Bamanyaki
This brief draws attention to some gaps in the mainstreaming of gender and nutrition in climate change, and food and nutrition-related policy documents, which may…
Five Years of Fighting in Eastern Ukraine: Environmental Issues Depicted in Infographics [Infographic]
2020
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Zoï Environmental Network
“Five Years of Fighting in Eastern Ukraine” is a set of infographics which demonstrate the dynamics and trends of environmental change since the onset of…
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…
Environmental and Social Commitment Plan
2020
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World Bank
This document outlines the World Bank plan for sewage and water treatment in Afghanistan.
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…
War-Induced Collapse and Asymmetric Recovery of Large-Mammal Populations in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
2019
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PLOS ONE
Marc E. Stalmans, Tara J. Massad, Mike J.S. Peel, Corina E. Tarnita, and Robert M. Pringle
How do large-mammal communities reassemble after being pushed to the brink of extinction? Few data are available to answer this question, as it is rarely…
Framing and Responding to Climate-Related Security Risks in Swedish Development Cooperation
2020
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Malin Mobjörk and Veronica Brodén Gyberg
Societies worldwide are increasingly facing security challenges posed by climate change. The impacts of climate change exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and undermine human security, and the…
Disaster Risk Reduction in Conflict Contexts: The State of the Evidence
2019
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German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, and Overseas Development Institute
Katie Peters, Kerrie Holloway, and Laura E.R. Peters
This working paper reviews the state of the evidence on disaster risk reduction (DRR) in conflict-affected contexts. It is intended to stimulate a more explicitly…
The Dark Side of Environmental Peacebuilding
2020
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World Development
Tobias Ide
Environmental peacebuilding refers to efforts aimed at building more peaceful relations through environmental cooperation, natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. It…
Environmental Decision-Making within a Recovering War Zone: The Republic of Iraq (chapter in "Global Case Studies of Collaboration and Transformation")
2019
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Taylor & Francis Group
Mohammed A. Kalkhan
Iraq faces numerous environmental problems including severe pollution, intertwined with a host of other issues, principally because of decades of war, international sanctions, and general…
Beyond Revenues: Measuring and Valuing Environmental and Social Impacts in Extractive Sector Governance
2019
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Natural Resource Governance Institute
Nicola Woodroffe and Tim Grice
Oil, gas and mining projects can generate substantial revenues for host countries. At the same time, extractive activities generate a range of other positive and…
New Method for Environmental Monitoring in Armed Conflict Zones: A Case Study of Syria
2019
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Samira Mobaied and Jean-Paul Rudant
Today, armed conflict affects some twenty countries, covering an area making up 11% of the surface area of the Earth. Any degradation of nature in…
Mining the Disclosures 2019
2019
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Responsible Sourcing Network
For the sixth consecutive year, Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) is analyzing corporate compliance under Special Disclosure Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act (otherwise known as…
Evaluation of Environmental Peacebuilding Projects in the Middle East - Towards a Framework that Captures Real Impacts
2019
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Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
Charleen Malkowsky
This research was conducted in order to close the knowledge gap relating to suitable evaluation methodologies for Environmental Peacebuilding approaches. While the field of environmental peacebuilding continuously…
Guidelines for Conflict-Sensitive Adaptation to Climate Change
2019
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adelphi
Dennis Tänzler and Nikolas Scherer
Climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, and reduces access to and the availability of resources – environmental changes that have serious…
Making Cities in Conflict Areas More Resilient: A Conceptual Iteration: Using the Climate Resilience and Security Monitor for Policies in Practice
2018
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Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) and Center for Climate and Security
Michel Rademaker, Karlijn Jans, Paul Verhagen, Aster Boeschoten, Hannes Roos, and Stephan Slingerland
By 2050, the UN estimates that 70 percent of the global population will be living in urban areas. Therefore, understanding and anticipating the ability of…