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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.

Anatomy of Resource Wars (The)

In several countries around the developing world, abundant natural resources help fuel conflict, either by attracting predatory groups seeking to control them or by financing wars that were initially caused by other factors. Prominent examples...

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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis - Summary for Policymakers

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says that global climate change is “very likely” to have a human cause. The report said temperatures were probably going to increase by 1.8-4C (3.2-7.2F) by the end of the century. It also...

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Climate Change and Conflict

This study commissioned by the German Ministry for the Environment, contains on the one hand the results of a comprehensive examination of potential security-related implications of climate change for different regions, and on the other hand an...

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Conflict and the Environment

The end of the Cold War has opened up the arena for increased attention to other lines of conflict, both in Europe and globally. Environmental disruption - by no means a new phenomenon - is a chief beneficiary of the shift in priorities in the...

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Development and Conflict

Currently, discussions of security are dominated by terrorism and Iraq. Important as these are, they are not the security issues that are most pressing for the populations of developing countries. Civil war has blighted the lives of many millions of...

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Environment, Scarcity, and Violence

This research does not aim to identify all the factors that cause violent conflict around the world; rather, it sought to determine whether a specific factor – environmental scarcity – can be an important cause of violent conflict.

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Environmental Change and Security - A European Perspective

Does a connection exist between environmental degradation, resource scarcity and violent conflicts? Global environmental changes, such as climate change and sea level rise, shortage of fresh water and rapid soil degradation increasingly highlight...

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Environmental Change and Security Program - Report 10 - 2004

Since 1994, the Environmental Change and Security Programme (ECSP) has explored the relationships among environment, population, disease, economic development, migration, political stability, and violent conflict. ECSP brings international...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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....

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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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Land & Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention

USAID's Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation has developed packages of technical assistance in a number of critical focus areas that have been shown to be contributing causes of conflict. These will provide USAID missions with access to...

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Livelihood & Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention

USAID's Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation has developed packages of technical assistance in a number of critical focus areas that have been shown to be contributing causes of conflict. These will provide USAID missions with access to...

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Overview of the Links between the Environment, Conflict and Peace

Issues Brief: Mainstreaming Conflict...

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State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security

Security concerns remain high on the world's agenda. In this year’s annual report, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, and rising competition over...

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Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

This is the most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change was published today....

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Transformation of Resource Conflicts: Approach and Instruments

The collection of contributions to this volume addresses such burning issues as natural resource management, conflict transformation, and co-operation in sub-regions of the Horn of Africa. The individual pieces of action-oriented field research...

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War Commodities and the Settlement of Civil Conflicts

The economic agendas of belligerents, including war profiteering, can represent major obstacles to the resolution of armed conflicts. This paper examines the distinctive characteristics of ‘war commodities’ constituting a significant share of the...

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