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Cutting our Losses? Reducing the Illegal Trade in Natural Resources (IISD 2004)

Nature

Since independence, the self-governing nations of Melanesia – Papua New The illegal trade of natural resources, such as wildlife and tropical…

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Boom or bust: how commodity price volatility impedes poverty reduction, and what to do about it (IISD, 2008)

Development

Commodity price volatility is a big problem for commodity-dependent countries and producers. An estimated two billion people, nearly a third…

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Migration and Climate Change (IOM, 2008)

Migration

Predicting future flows of climate migrants is complex; stymied by a lack of baseline data, distorted by population growth and…

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Assessing the security implications of climate change in West Africa: Country case studies of Ghana and Burkina Faso (IISD, 2008)

Security

There have been some attempts to construct scenarios of the security implications of climate change at a global scale. But…

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Trade, Aid and Security – an agenda for peace and development (Earthscan, 2007)

Aid, Development, Security

There have been some attempts to construct scenarios of the security Aid policy and trade policy – the crucial tools…

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Supermarket buying power: global supply chains and smallholder farmers (IISD, 2007)

Development

Supermarkets now dominate food sales in developed countries and are rapidly expanding their global presence. At the same time, international…

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Climate change and foreign policy: an exploration of greater options for integration (IISD, 2007)

Security

An integrated climate change–foreign policy approach has the potential to improve prospects for more effective efforts to address climate change…

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Conserving the peace in the Albertine Rift (IISD, 2006)

Nature

The Albertine Rift is host to some of Africa’s richest biodiversity, as well as the site of some of its…

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Regional Trade Agreements and conflict: Promoting conflict or building peace (IISD, 2005)

Development

Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have become defining features of the modern economy and a powerful force for globalization. By the…

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Aiding or Abetting? Dilemmas of foreign aid and political instability in Melanesia (IISD, 2005)

Aid

Since independence, the self-governing nations of Melanesia – Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu – have…

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Addressing Natural Resource Conflicts: Working towards more effective resolution of national and sub-national resource disputes (Chatham House, 2015)

Nature, Security

At a broad level four types of resource dispute can present a general challenge to national stability: secessionist conflicts in…

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Frontiers – Emerging issues of environmental concern (UNEP, 2017)

Migration, Nature

In 2016, about 31.1 million people were newly displaced within their own countries because of conflicts, violence and natural disasters—the…

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Investing In Stability: Can extractive-led development help build peace? (Chatham House, 2015)

Development

Over the past decade growing demand for resources, geostrategic competition and new technologies have pushed resource exploration and development into…

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The impact of EU trade agreements on conflict and peace (EPLO, 2013)

Security

The European Union (EU has signed more Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) than any other trade bloc. Its economic influence extends…

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Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan (UN, 2013)

Development, Nature, Security

This report investigates the ways in which the management of land, water, minerals, forests and drugs are linked to instability…

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Climate change and migration: an overview (Global Encyclopaedia of Migration, 2013)

Migration

There is considerable historical and contemporary evidence that changes in climatic conditions have the potential to influence human migration patterns….

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Equity in Extractives: Stewarding Africa’s natural resources for all (Africa Progress Panel, 2013)

Development, Nature

This report sets out an agenda for converting increased resource wealth into improved wellbeing. The starting point is a strengthened…

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Encouraging peacebuilding through better natural resource management (Chatham House, 2013)

Security

Natural resources such as conflict diamonds and illegal timber are known to trigger and prolong armed violence. Countries emerging from…

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Remediation of polluted sites in Balkans, Iraq and Sierra Leone (UNEP & ELI, 2012)

Nature, Security

Countries emerging from conflict face myriad complex challenges, including restoring peace and security, rebuilding infrastructure and the economy, and providing…

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Environmental assessment as a tool for peacebuilding and development (UNEP & ELI, 2012)

Development, Nature

Investing in environmental assessment is a focused and cost-effective intervention in post-conflict states because EIAs are a catalytic intervention for…

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Greening the blue helmets: Environment, natural resources and UN peacekeeping operations (UNEP, DPKO & DFS, 2012)

Nature

This report shows that peacekeeping operations not only have important natural resource implications, as well as significant impacts on the…

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Conservation and Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone (IISD, 2012)

Nature

The aim of this paper is to assess the status of conservation in Sierra Leone, to outline some of the…

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Capacity Development in post-conflict settings (EU-UN, 2012)

Development, Security

Conflict-sensitive natural resource management (NRM) systems are an important tool for preventing violence. A NRM system is conflict-sensitive if the…

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Rising temperatures, Rising tensions: Climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East (IISD, 2009)

Security

In a region already considered the world’s most water- scarce and where, in many places, demand for water already outstrips…

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From Conflict to Peacebuilding: the role of natural resources and the environment (UNEP & PBSO, 2009)

Security

This report, authored by UNEP and selected members of the Expert Advisory Group, aims to summarize the current academic knowledge…

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Climate change and security in Africa (IISD, 2009)

Security

As science has revealed the speed and scope of climate change, we have begun to realize that it holds potentially…

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A recurring anarchy? The emergence of climate change as a threat to international peace and security (Conflict, Security and Development, 2009)

Security

This paper reviews in greater detail the development of conceptualisations of environment and security that influence current discussions over the…

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The numbers game (Forced Migration Review, 2008)

Migration

Estimates of the potential number of ‘climate change migrants’ vary hugely. In order to persuade policymakers of the need to…

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The Politics of Space for Conservation: A political economy analysis of the allocation of territory for biodiversity in Kenya (UCL Dissertation, 2018)

Nature

This research (produced as part of a distance learning Masters) aims to understand the economic and social factors that are…

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Measuring Progress: Towards achieving the environmental dimensions of the SDGs (UN Environment, 2019)

Development, Nature

The SDGs provide a framework which elaborates the global development agenda towards achieving a better and more sustainable future for…

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The White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding (2022)

Security

The White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding delivers a strong, cogent message about the relevance, evidence, and promise…

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Human Migration and Natural Resources – Global Assessment of an Adaptive Complex System (UNEP & International Resource Panel, 2023)

Migration, Nature

This report contributes to the global discussion by moving the discussion of natural resources and migration from being based primarily…

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Climate Change, Conflict and (In)Security (2023)

Security

The volume examines how climate change is creating and exacerbating insecurities for millions of people globally, and how states, inter-governmental…

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African Climate Security Risk Assessment: Executive Summary (2023)

Security

This executive summary of the forthcoming African Climate Security Risk Assessment summarises insights on climate change, peace, and security in…

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Climate Security and Peacebuilding – Thematic Review (United Nations University, 2023)

Development, Nature, Security

The 2023 Thematic Review on Climate Security and Peacebuilding, commissioned by PBSO in partnership with FAO, UNICEF, Climate Security Mechanism…

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The impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on climate security and climate action Independent Experts’ Analysis (Chatham House, 2023)

Security

The war in Ukraine is increasing vulnerability to climate change around the world and complicating collective efforts to reduce greenhouse…

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Natural resources, human mobility and sustainability: a review and research gap analysis (2022)

Migration

Pressures on natural resources, such as from environmental change, have influenced the global human mobility landscape. This peer-reviewed article evaluates…

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Mainstreaming Environmental Sustainability and Clean Energy Access in the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) (UNHCR, UNDP, 2022)

Migration

This report highlights the link between ecological fragility and humanitarian and development needs in the 3RP countries. It explores the…

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Moving from Reaction to Action – Anticipating Vulnerability Hotspots in the Sahel (United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel, 2022)

Security

This report explores climate change, food security, conflict and migration and displacement in the Sahel, providing predictions of how those…

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Peace Operations and the Challenges of Environmental Degradation and Resource Scarcity (SIPRI, 2021)

Security

This paper investigates the non-traditional security challenges that environmental degradation and resource scarcity pose to multilateral peace operations, whether deployed…

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Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities: the Power of Nature-based Solutions (UNDP, 2021)

Development, Nature

This report investigates the potential of nature-based solutions (NbS) to help build smart, sustainable and resilient cities. It draws from…

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Mitigating the climate change risks to global security (Chatham House, 2021)

Security

This paper seeks to explain why and how the UK should include a focus on securityin its climate strategy going…

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Environmental Sustainability in Iraq (UNDP, 2021)

Nature

This paper investigates the direct and indirect environmental impacts in Iraq as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, set against…

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Climate risk management for international organizations (Chatham House, 2021)

Security

This paper investigates the extent to which international organizations areincorporating climate change into their strategic planning and risk management….

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Making Peace with the Climate (EIP, 2020)

Security

This paper investigates the direct and indirect environmental impacts in Iraq as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, set against…

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Europe and Climate Security: Is Europe Delivering on its Rhetoric? (EIP, 2020)

Security

Over the past 15 years, climate-related risks to peace and stability have fastly risen up the European agenda. This report…

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RISK BRIEF NORTH AFRICA & SAHEL (Climate Diplomacy, 2020)

Migration, Security

This risk brief aims to provide a concise overview of peer-reviewed literature onthe links between climate change and violent conflict…

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Shoring up Stability: Addressing Climate and Fragility Risks in the Lake Chad Region (Adelphi, 2019)

Migration, Security

Lake Chad is caught in a conflict trap. Violence between armed opposition groups – including the so-called ‘Islamic State West…

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Climate Fragility Risk Brief: Afghanistan (Adelphi, 2019)

Security

This climate fragility risk brief outlines some of the ways in which climate changethreatens long-term peace and stability in Afghanistan:…

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Driving Transformational Change: Foreign Policy and the 2030 Agenda (Adelphi & German Government, 2019)

Development, Migration

The SDGs set out a powerful vision for a better world, but action since 2015 is not delivering that promise….

Links Between Resources and Human Mobility

Research

We are working on a major report on the links between resources and human mobility for the International Resource Panel…

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Nature-Based Solutions for Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities

Research

We developed a report on nature based solutions for smart, sustainable and resilient cities with UNEP and UNDP in support of the…

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Sweden’s ECPS Nexus Integration

Research

We wrote a report for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency’s Unit on Peace and Human Security on Sweden’s work…

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Regional Climate Security Risk Studies

Research

We produced a number of climate security risk briefs and studies – on Afghanistan, North Africa and the Sahel and the Lake Chad Region….

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Climate Risk Management in International Organizations

Research

We did a major study with E3G on the ways that international organisations are dealing with climate risks in their own operations…

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Peace Operations, Environmental Degradation, and Resource Scarcity

Research

We are developing a report on peace operations, environmental degradation and resource scarcity for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute….

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