IES Publications

Charcoal in the Mist: an overview of environmental security issues and initiatives in the Central Albertine Rift

This report, \"Charcoal in the Mist\", describes the environmental security situation and the role of resources in one of the world\'s most important ecosystems, the Central Albertine Rift. This transboundary eco-region is important not only in...

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Mining, forest change and conflict in the Kivus

This report presents the outcome of a study carried out within the Environmental Security for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme of the Institute for Environmental Security. It was largely prepared by SarVision, to promote and advance the...

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Climate Change, Security and Sustainable Development

This is the report of the IES conference on the impact of climate change on international security and sustainable development, \"From Bali to Poznan: New Issues, New Challenges\", held at the European Parliament on 18 Dec...

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Accelerated Learning Pathways for Sustainable Development within International Context

This report was prepared by Planet2025 Network at the request of the Dutch Programme Learning for Sustainable Development. It reviews and discusses key drivers and trends that could strongly influence the activities of the UN Decade of Education for...

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Conference on Greening Foreign and Security Policy: The Role of Europe - Final Conference Report

GLOBE-EU and IES co-organised a Conference on Greening Foreign and Security Policy: The Role of Europe at the European Parliament in Brussels on 6-7 December 2006. The aim of the meeting was to help promote a political process for the better...

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Joint Report of the Greening Foreign and Security Policy Working Groups

The Joint Report of the Working Groups on Greening Foreign and Security Policy was finalised in March 2007 taking into account the results of the December 2006 GFSP Conference in Brussels and other inputs from the participants in the groups during...

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Inventory of Environment and Security Policies and Practices (IESPP): An Overview of Strategies and Initiatives of Selected Governments, International Organisations and Inter-Governmental Organisations

This report provides an easy to use comparative overview of existing governmental and inter-governmental positions and actions dealing with the relationship between environment, security and sustainable...

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Forces for Sustainability

This is the report of the first Peace and Sustainability Session named \"Forces for Sustainability\", held in the Peace Palace in The Hague in March 2007. The meeting brought together about 70 decision makers, opinion leaders, professionals in...

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Contribución al análisis de la problemática en el resguardo de Matavén, Colombia: perspectives nacionales e internacionales

This extensive report (written in Spanish, with an English abstract) focuses on the legal aspects of the EnviroSecurity Assessment case study in Matavén, Colombia, where the advance of illicit plantations towards the Matavén area, constitutes a...

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Promoting Environmental Security and Poverty Alleviation in the Matavén area of Colombia

This case study report focuses on environmental security in the Matavén area in...

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International Law of Sustainable Development: Legal Aspects of Environmental Security on the Indonesian Island of Kalimantan

This report focuses on the legal aspects of the EnviroSecurity Assessment case study of Kalimantan. In this area large and numerous forest fires cause a lot of damage to human health, the economy and the environment in various ways. Moreover, the...

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Promoting Environmental Security and Poverty Alleviation in the Peat Swamps of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

This case study report focuses on environmental security in two peat swamp forest areas in Central Kalimantan, namely Mawas and Sebangau. It describes the social and environmental problems in this Indonesian part of Borneo, where environmental goods...

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Peace Park amid Violence? A report on environmental security in the Virunga-Bwindi region

This study, carried out for the Institute for Environmental Security (IES), specifically focuses on the Virunga-Bwindi region, an area of high conservation value located in the border region of Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo...

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Promoting Environmental Security and Poverty Alleviation in Virunga-Bwindi, Great Lakes Africa

This case study report focuses on environmental security in the Virunga-Bwindi region, part of the Albertine Rift....

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The Virunga Volcanoes and the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: cooperation in the management of shared natural resources and the concept of Transboundary Protected Areas

This case study explores whether and how public international law could contribute to a more effective protection of the natural habitat of the mountain...

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Proceedings of The Hague Conference on Environment, Security and Sustainable Development, Peace Palace, 9-12 May 2004

In the 1990s experts predicted that environmental change was to be the security concern of the 21st Century. Today, however, competing crises brought on by terrorism, infectious diseases and economic instability are at the top of the security...

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Pathways to Environmental Security

Chairman’s Summary of the Proceedings of The Hague Conference on Environment, Security andSustainable Development - 9-12 May 2004

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Eco-Insurance: Risk Management: Towards a Policy Framework for a Sustainable Future

Humankind’s failure to reinvest a portion of the monetary riches provided by nature back into the globe’s life-supporting ecosystems has produced a mounting deficit on the world’s ecological balance of payments. This deficit has now grown to be 20...

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Eco-Insurance for a Sustainable Future: A Contribution to the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

This Consultation Paper and its Report on Initial Consultations with experts introduces Eco-Insurance for a Sustainable Future to a broader audience of stakeholders from around the world for comments and suggestions. It is the first step of what...

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What is Environmental Security?

The relation between the environment and the security of humans and nature has been the object of much research and the subject of many publications in recent decades, but it is only recently becoming an important focus of international...

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