Renewable Resources
Weather Shocks and Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
2015
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Center for Effective Global Action
Sara Cools, Martin Flatø, and Andreas Kotsadam
This study uses variation in rainfall to study how extreme shocks to income affect intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that women experiencing…
Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher? [Interactive Map]
2015
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Foreign Policy
Kalev Leetaru
Using the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project, which monitors local media around the world (and live-translates it from 65 languages, along…
Afghanistan Reconnected: Regional Economic Security Beyond 2014
2014
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East-West Institute
Sarah Stern and Anna Mitri
Afghanistan’s economic development is at a critical and exciting juncture as international troops withdraw at the end of this year, and the country elects a…
Food Insecurity and Conflict Dynamics: Causal Linkages and Complex Feedbacks
2013
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International Journal of Security and Development
Cullen S. Hendrix and Henk-Jan Brinkman
This paper addresses two related topics: 1) the circular link between food insecurity and conflict, with particular emphasis on the Sahel, and 2) the potential…
Warfare in Biodiversity Hotspots
2009
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Conservation Biology
Thor Hanson, Thomas M. Brooks, Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca, Michael Hoffmann, John F. Lamoreux, Gary Machlis, Cristina G. Mittermeier, Russell A. Mittermeier, and John D. Pilgrim
Conservation efforts are only as sustainable as the social and political context within which they take place. The weakening or collapse of sociopolitical frameworks during wartime…
Mainstreaming the Environment into Postwar Recovery: The Case for 'Ecological Development'
2012
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International Affairs
Richard Milburn
In the past decade there has been an increased realization of the shared geography between biodiversity and conflict, with recent research finding that over 80 percent…
The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Environment
2001
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Grammarians, Inc.
James Shambaugh, Judy Oglethorpe & Rebecca Ham
The Biodiversity Support Program's Armed Conflict and the Environment Project ran from 1998 to 2001 to identify and raise awareness about the negative impacts of…
National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change
2014
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CNA Military Advisory Board
This report re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world. In the…
Conservation in a Wicked Complex World: Challenges and Solutions
2013
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Edward T. Game, Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil, and Eve McDonald-Madden
Most conservation challenges are complex and possess all the characteristics of so called “wicked” problems. Despite widespread recognition of this complexity conservationists possess a legacy…
Targeted Scenario Analysis: A New Approach to Capturing and Presenting Ecosystem Service Values for Decision Makers
2013
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United Nations Development Program
This guidebook provides a step-by-step introduction to Targeted Scenario Analysis (TSA), an innovative analytical approach, developed by UNDP that captures and presents the value of…
Renewable Natural Resources: Practical Lessons for Conflict Sensitive Development
2009
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World Bank
Sandra Ruckstuhl
This paper explores how a “conflict and violence sensitive” framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of…