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Essential Reading List

Adelphi Research and the IES have produced the following bibliography of key books and other publications on environment, security and related topics.

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Environmental Change and Security Program - Report 11 - 2005

According to some experts, protecting natural resources and stabilizing population growth must be part of long-term solutions to today's violent conflicts. Others say the evidence does not support this strategy. But all agree that more research will...

Environmental Peacemaking

Using environmental issues as a means of catalyzing cooperation among adversaries is a plausible goal that deserves greater attention. This book is an initial attempt at this emerging field of inquiry. Ken Conca and Geoffrey Dabelko have put...

Environmental Security: A View From Europe

The European Union continues to take some progressive steps towards curing the human induced stresses plaguing our planet. What is it doing to protect us from the long-term threats posed by environmental degradation and unsustainable development,...

Europe in the World: Political choices for security and prosperity

Europe is failing to make the political choices necessary to ensure the security and prosperity of its citizens in an interdependent world. It must cultivate a rejuvenated sense of purpose if it is to rise to the challenges of the coming years....

Forest Conflict in Asia: How Big is the Problem?

This report attempts to provide a sense of the scale of forest conflict in Asia to allow governments of countries in the region, donor organisations, and NGO's to gauge the realative importance of this issues from the viewpoint of governance, human...

Forests and Armed Conflict

This Special Edition of the European Tropical Forest Research Network focuses on forests and conflicts and contains short general articles on this topic as well as specific articles on Africa, Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific.

From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment

Since 1990 at least eighteen violent conflicts have been fuelled by the exploitation of natural resources. In fact, recent research suggests that over the last sixty years at least forty per cent of all intrastate conflicts have a link to natural...

Globalization and Environmental Challenges

Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century

Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and...

IESPP Report

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...

Investing in Prevention: an international strategy to manage risks of instability and improve crisis response

The international community needs to invest in reducing future risk of conflict and political instability, or continue to pay the high human and financial costs of reacting to repeated crisis, says a new report from the Prime Minister's Strategy...

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