Conflict and Natural Resources

Warfare exacts a toll on natural ecosystems as well as on human populations. Environmental damage associated with conflict, including disruption of agriculture and infrastructure, is a cost of war that may hinder a nation’s ability to recover...

Environment, Conflict and Cooperation - ECC Platform

This website functions as a clearing house and platform of exchange on environment, conflict, and cooperation. It aims to foster sustainable peace by creating networks among stakeholders from the development, environment, foreign and security...

Environmental Impacts of Conflict and War

Most war-related harm to the environment is not caused by weapons specifically aimed at environmental destruction. For example, during World War I, Germany sank an Allied ship containing a million pounds of mustard gas. The slowly leaking gas is...

Environmental Literacy Council

No choices are more important than those we make about the environment - and few are more complex and challenging. Yet the actions we take can have a permanent, powerful impact, upon human well-being and the face of nature on earth....

Environmental Mainstreaming in EC Development Cooperation Portal

A support and resources portal that provides information and access to resources that would help in mainstreaming evironment in development...

Environmental Security Data Base

The Environmental Security Database contains information on books, journal articles, papers, and newspaper clippings relating to the study of the links between environmental stress and violent conflict in developing countries. Much of the material...

International Natural Resource Information

Lists different natural resources websites

Project on Environment, Population and Security

The Project on Environment, Population and Security began in July 1994 and concluded in June 1996. It was an activity of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Toronto conducted in cooperation with the Population and...

Resource Conflict Monitor: The Links between Governance, Conflict and Natural Resources

The Resource Conflict Monitor (RCM) monitors how resource-rich countries manage, administer and govern their natural resources and illustrates the impact of the quality of resource governance on the onset, intensity and duration of violent conflict....