ECSP Report 13
As the Obama administration takes over, the 13th issue of the Environmental Change and Security Program Report details the non-traditional security threats—and opportunities—it faces. “Environmental security is making a comeback,” says ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko, “notably in the United States, where signs indicate that the next administration will tackle environment, population, health, and development challenges that impact security.” In a special feature entitled “New Directions in Demographic Security,” seven demographic experts analyze the links connecting population and environmental dynamics to conflict. The report also features articles on the population-climate change nexus and the UN Environment Programme's peacebuilding work in conflict zones.
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Foreword: "Environmental Security Heats Up"
Geoff Dabelko
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New Directions in Demographic Security (Complete Set of Commentaries)
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- "Half a Chance: Youth Bulges and
Transitions to Liberal Democracy"
“The dissipation of a large youth bulge tends to yield relative political calm,” says Richard Cincotta. On the other hand, democratic gains under youth-bulge conditions “face unfavorable odds.” Using age-structure data, he assesses the fragility of existing liberal democracies and forecasts when new ones will emerge.
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- "Population in Defense Policy Planning"
U.S. defense policymakers should watch four demographic trends, says Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba: youthful populations, changes in military personnel, international migration, and urbanization. “The military does not always have the tools to address these population and development issues, but by drawing on a wider community for support, they lessen the chances that they will have to deal with the consequences,” she says.
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- "Climate Change, Demography, Environmental
Degradation, and Armed Conflict"
Using geo-referenced data, Clionadh Raleigh and Henrik Urdal find that population growth and density are related to increased civil conflict, but that demographic and environmental factors are generally outweighed by political and economic ones. Therefore, they call for “paying greater attention to how resources are distributed and how political institutions create vulnerability to climate change.”
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- "Migration as the Demographic Wild Card
in Civil Conflict: Mauritius and Fiji"
Analyzing demographic trends on the small-island nations of Mauritius and Fiji, Christian Leuprecht argues that “the impact of migration on conflict is a man-made problem; the way migration is managed (or not) can determine its potential for mitigating or escalating a conflict.”
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- "Beginning the Demographic Transition:
Very Young and Youthful Age Structures"
From 1970-2000, “only 13 percent of countries with a very young age structure had fully democratic governments, compared with 83 percent of countries with a mature age structure,” points out Elizabeth Leahy, who compares and contrasts age structures’ connection to conflict in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Iran, and Pakistan.
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An Ethical Approach to Population and
Climate Change
As interest in the relationship between global population growth and climate change grows, Suzanne Petroni calls for “a thoughtful and deliberative dialogue around voluntary family planning’s contribution to mitigating climate change,” which could “increase awareness not only of the outsized contribution of developed nations to global emissions, but also of their appropriate role in the global community.”
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Best of the Beat: Highlights From the First Year
Read some of the best blog posts from the New Security Beat's first year. Georgetown University's Colin Kahl analyzes Kenya's history of demographically and environmentally induced ethnic land strife, while ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko offers a word of caution on "climate change refugees."
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Reviews of New Publications (Complete)
Leaf through expert reviews of 20 recent books and reports at the nexus of population, environment, and security, including The Greening of the U.S. Military, Return of the Population Growth Factor, and Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution.
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- Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions
Reviewed by David L. Carr
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FOCUS on population, environment, and security
A series of occasional papers featuring Wilson Center speakers.
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Issue 19: "The Integration Imperative:
How to Improve Development Programs by Linking Population, Health, and Environment"
Since the early 1990s, a few small-scale community programs in developing countries have been using integrated approaches that address population-health-environment (PHE) links in ecologically fragile areas. These projects have sought to increase access to family planning and health services, while simultaneously helping communities manage their natural resources. Roger-Mark De Souza provides some observations from his decade-long experience with emerging PHE projects around the world, and offers recommendations for future directions in this promising field.
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Issue 18: "Forests for the Future: Family Planning in Nepal's Terai Region"
A transformation is taking place in the Khata areas of rural Nepal: People dependent on forests are learning new ways to protect the source of their livelihoods. Farmers are now the front-line stewards of the environment—and enthusiastic advocates for integrating population-health-environment (PHE) programs into their community activities. Co-authors Leona D’Agnes, Judy Oglethorpe, Sabita Thapa, Dhan Rai, and Tara Prasad Gnyawali describe a World Wildlife Fund program that combines family planning and community-based forestry within Nepal’s Terai region.
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Issue 17: "Sharing the Forest: Protecting Gorillas and Helping Families in Uganda"
On the outskirts of remote Bwindi Impenetrable
National Park in southwestern Uganda, endangered mountain gorillas forage in local gardens that run along the border of the park. Rapid population growth has pushed people to settle near the gorillas’ habitat—sometimes leading to conflict. Our innovative community development program, Conservation Through Public Health, seeks to conserve these magnificent animals, and at the same time, improve the quality of life for Ugandans living near Bwindi. Trained community volunteers protect livelihoods dependent on ecotourism by monitoring diseases like tuberculosis that can pass from humans to gorillas, potentially threatening the rare species’ survival. Other volunteers teach couples how to use modern family planning methods that make it easier for them to provide for their children—and reduce the pressure on the forest and its inhabitants.
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Issue 16: "Poor Health, Poor Women: How Reproductive Health Affects Poverty"
Does poor reproductive health prevent poor women from escaping poverty? Despite the plethora of survey data showing that poor households tend to be larger and that poor women tend to have higher rates of fertility, experts have debated whether these conditions cause poverty or are symptoms of poverty. In research conducted for the World Bank, Thomas Merrick and Margaret E. Greene found that poor reproductive health outcomes—early childbearing, maternal mortality/morbidity, and unintended/mistimed pregnancy—have negative effects on overall health, and, under certain circumstances, on education and household well-being.
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Issue 15: "Fishing for Families: Reproductive Health and Integrated Coastal Management in the Philippines"
The Philippines’ rapidly rising population has overwhelmed the fisheries that have traditionally supported the country, bringing grinding poverty and malnutrition to many coastal communities. But a new approach to conservation may save families along with the fish and their habitats, say Joan Castro and Leona D’Agnes. By integrating the delivery of family planning and conservation services, the Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management (IPOPCORM) project found that it could improve reproductive health and coastal resource management more than programs that focused exclusively on reproductive health or the environment—and at a lower total cost.
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Issue 14: "The Missing Links: Poverty, Population, and the Environment in Ethiopia"
Ethiopia faces the dual challenges of environmental degradation and rapid population growth—currently 2.7 percent a year. Key resources—including arable land, forests, and water—are becoming increasingly scarce and degraded. But a new approach to development that integrates population, health, and environment initiatives could help improve the lives of millions of Ethiopians, says Mogues Worku, executive director of The Environment and Development Society of Ethiopia (LEM Ethiopia).
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Issue 12: “Lessons From the First Generation of Integrated Population, Health, and Environment Projects”
John Pielemeier
In his review of the “first generation” of population-health-environment projects funded by USAID and the Packard Foundation, consultant John Pielemeier finds that integrated approaches provide positive outcomes in shorter periods of time, and at lower cost, than single-sector programs. Pielemeier presented the findings of his full report at the Wilson Center in September 2005.
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Issue 11: "Exploring the Links Between Conservation and Health"
Jane Goodall
Humans share about 99 percent of our DNA structure with chimpanzees, a fact that, according to Jane Goodall, we often forget at our own peril. In this edited transcript, the world-renowned primatologist focuses on two burgeoning problems rapidly depleting wildlife in Africa: the bushmeat trade and deforestation. Goodall’s institute combats deforestation by combining community development, health care education, and natural resource management in integrated programs. Such integration, says Goodall, helps “people understand that as the environment is destroyed, so their own lives become increasingly hard and difficult.”
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Issue 13: "Explorer les liens entre la conservation et la santé"
French translation of "Exploring the Links Between Conservation and Health," Issue 11
Jane Goodall
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Issue 10: "Appreciating the Complexity and Dignity of People’s Lives: Integrating Population-Health-Environment Research in Petén, Guatemala"
Liza Grandia
As the population increases in Guatemala's Petén region—home to the largest protected tropical forest north of the Amazon—so does the deforestation. From 1997-1999, a team of researchers developed a new environmental module for Guatemala’s Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) that analyzed the rapidly changing population-environment dynamics in this frontier region. According to anthropologist Liza Grandia, "The integrated DHS has been a critical part of developing...programs linking health and population with the environment," which have lowered Petén’s total fertility rate from 6.8 to 5.8 children per woman in just four years.
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ECSP Report 12
While the world focuses on war, authors in the latest ECSP Report argue that we should not miss the quiet—yet often more lethal—conflicts for shrinking resources, which are increasingly depleted by population growth, environmental degradation, poverty, and over-consumption. Eight African leaders and scholars—including Nobel Peace Prize-winner Wangari Maathai—describe their continent’s struggle with resource conflict. Population and health are also linked to conflict and fragile states, say Report authors. But efforts to promote sustainability—and use natural resources as peacebuilding tools—could help turn deadly environments into safe, sustainable neighborhoods.
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Report From Africa: Population, Health, Environment, and Conflict
Complete set of commentaries
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"Sustained Development, Democracy, and Peace in Africa"
Wangari Maathai
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"Madagascar Naturellement: Birth Control Is My Environmental Priority"
President Marc Ravalomanana
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"Population, Migration, and Water Conflicts in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania"
Milline J. Mbonile
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Population Age Structure and Its Relation to Civil Conflict: A Graphic Metric
Richard P. Cincotta and Elizabeth Leahy
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Health, Population, and Fragility: Insights From a Meeting Series
Introduction
The Security Demographic: Assessing the Evidence
Securing Health: Lessons From Nation-Building Missions
Health Provision in Fragile Settings: A Stabilizing Force?
Mechanisms for Health Systems Management: Reflections on the World Bank and USAID Experiences
Measuring the Human Cost of War: Dilemmas and Controversies
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Reviews of New Publications
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ECSP Brochure
As hard security threats dominate the headlines, the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) strives to foster a broader, nonpartisan debate. Since 1994, ECSP has explored the connections among global challenges—such as population growth, water scarcity, pandemic disease, and environmental change—and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.
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ECSP Report 11
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 lead to a more nuanced understanding of the links connecting environment, population, and security. Bringing together a diverse group of authors—-from Nepal to Norway, from the university to the military—-the 11th edition of the Environmental Change and Security Program Report explores how powerful underlying forces may engender war—or lay a foundation for peace.
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Complete ECSP Report 11
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Introduction
Table of Contents and Foreword
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Population and Conflict: Exploring the Links
Complete set of commentaries
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"Defusing the Population Bomb: Is Security a Rationale for Reducing Global Population Growth?"
Commentary on population and conflict
Author: Henrik Urdal
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"The Young and the Restless: Population
Age Structure and Civil War"
Commentary on population and conflict
Author: Sarah Staveteig
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"Missing Women and Bare Branches: Gender Balance and Conflict"
Commentary on population and conflict
Author: Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer
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"The State of the Field: Demography
and War"
Commentary on population and conflict
Author: Monica Duffy Toft
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Environmental Stress and Demographic Change in Nepal: Underlying Conditions Contributing to a Decade of Insurgency
Author: Richard Matthew and Bishnu Raj Upreti
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Speaking Truth to Silence: There's Still a Place for the Demographic Case
Author: Robert Engelman
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dotPOP
Author: Jennifer Wisnewski Kaczor
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ECSP Report 10
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the newly redesigned ECSP Report asked top thinkers to identify the next steps for environment, population, and security. The only forum dedicated to showcasing environmental security, it also features papers commissioned for the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, and a special report on population, development, and environment in Ethiopia, along with book reviews and a new column listing online population data.
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From Planting Trees to Making Peace: The Next Steps for Environment, Population, and Security
10th Anniversary Commentaries
Commentaries: complete set
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"The Next Steps for Environment, Population, and Security: Introduction"
By Geoffrey Dabelko
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"Environment, Population, and Health: Strategies for a More Secure World"
Commentary by Jared Diamond
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"Demographic Security Comes of Age"
Commentary by Richard Cincotta
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"An Agenda for Population, Health, and Environment"
Commentary by Roger-Mark De Souza
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Special Report: "Population, Development, and Environment in Ethiopia"
By Sahlu Haile
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"Linkages Between Environment, Population, and Development"
Policy Brief by Michael Renner and Hilary French
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Reviews of New Publications
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dotPOP
By Jennifer Wisnewski Kaczor
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ECSP Report 9
The Environmental Change and Security Project has just published its annual journal on population, environment, and security connections. Jane Goodall kicks off the diverse collection of articles with her assessment of population and environment connections in Africa. The 2003 edition also features commentaries on global poverty and U.S. national security. Read on for these pieces and much more on these critical yet neglected linkages.
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Commentary (pp. 1-5)
Bridging the Chasm: Helping People and the Environment Across Africa
Author: Jane Goodall
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Special Report (pp. 41-58)
Population and Environment: A Review of Funding Themes and Trends
Author: Susan L. Gibbs
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Reviews (pp. 124-134)
Reviews of The World's Water 2002-2003: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources; State of World Population 2002: People, Poverty and Possibilities; and Six Billion Plus: Population Issues in the Twenty-First Century.
Book Reviews by Baruch Boxer, Tom Merrick and Joseph Winchester Brown
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Reviews (pp. 135-142)
Reviews of Population and Environment: Methods of Analysis; Population and Climate Change; and The Crowded Greenhouse: Population, Climate, Change and Creating a Sustainable World.
Book Reviews by Frederick A. B. Meyerson, Gale D. Ness and Elizabeth Chalecki
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Reviews (pp. 142-147)
Reviews of Lifesupport: The Environment and Human Health and The Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy
Book Reviews by Melinda Moore and Jennifer W. Kaczor
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Official Statements (pp. 149-151)
Featuring Kofi Annan, Andrew S. Natsios, Thorya Ahmed Abaid, Peter Piot, Colin L. Powell, Klaus Toepfer, James D. Wolfensohn and Stephen Lewis
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Meeting Summaries (pp. 156-61)
Banking the Demographic Dividend: How Population Dynamics Can Affect Economic Growth; Linking Health, Environment and Community Development: Lessons from the Thai Experience; and Good Water Makes Good Neighbors: A Middle East Pilot Project in Conflict Resolution.
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Meeting Summaries (pp. 161-66)
Conservation, Population and Health: A Conversation with Jane Goodall and The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Critical Policy Issues for the Armed Forces
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ECSP Report 8
What should have happened at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development? And, given the Summit's decidedly mixed results, what should happen next? The 2002 issue of the Environmental Change and Security Program Report features 19 commentaries by experts worldwide on the most important issues for Johannesburg and beyond.
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POPULATION, POVERTY, AND VULNERABILITY
Mitigating the Effects of Natural Disasters
Author: George Martine and Jose Miguel Guzman, George Martine is director of the UNFPA Country Support Team for Mexico; Jose Miguel Guzman is population affairs officer in the CELADE/Population Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile
Hurricane Mitch was one of the most destructive natural disasters of recent times, and it exposed the underlying vulnerability of the Central American region, where poverty magnifies the threat of natural hazards. International assistance for national disasters tends to focus on short-term recuperation rather than on long-range prevention. Policymakers need to pay greater attention to the role of population dynamics within necessary prevention efforts.
This article analyzes the relationships between demographic dynamics and Hurricane Mitch in Central America, and extracts from that experience lessons that can help reduce vulnerability to natural disasters in the long run. Specifically, it centers on three aspects: How did demographic processes condition the area’s vulnerability prior to Mitch? What are Mitch’s consequences for population dynamics in the short- and long-term? How must population dynamics change in order to mitigate the effects of future natural disasters? Systematic use of such information could help mitigate natural-disaster impacts in three important ways: planning of spatial organization, reproductive health needs, and design of adequate information systems.
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MIGRATION, POPULATION CHANGE, AND THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT
Author: Richard E. Bilsborrow, Richard E. Bilsborrow is a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center and both a research professor in biostatistics and an adjunct professor in ecology and city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. An economist-demographer, he has worked on research and technical assistance projects throughout the developing world, especially in Latin America. In Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Indonesia, he has designed, directed, and analyzed household surveys on migration, fertility, economic development, poverty, land use, and the environment. His books on migration methodology are standard references. He has published about 20 books and over 130 articles.
This article considers issues pertaining to the linkages between rural populations, migration from and to rural areas, and the environment—-focusing on developing countries in the latter part of the 20th century.
The article concentrates on internal migration, although it does briefly discuss the state of knowledge on the interplay between international migration and the environment. It addresses questions such as: What are the recent—-and projected—-patterns of rural population growth? How much internal migration in developing nations is towards rural environments? What kinds of rural environments are people moving into, in what countries, and what are the environmental consequences? Are there relationships in the other direction as well—that is, does environmental deterioration play an important role in out-migration from rural areas? And does out-migration from rural areas have environmental effects on the places of migratory origin? The article concludes with policy recommendations.
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New Publications
Reviews of Current Literature
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Official Statements
Excerpts from recent official statements in which environment, population, and human security issues are prominently cited in the context of national and security interests.
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ECSP Meeting Summaries and Organizational Updates
> Summaries of the past year's ECSP meetings;
> A list of environment, population, and security activities of academic programs, foundations, nongovernmental organizations, government offices, and intergovernmental organizations.
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ECSP Report 7
The Environmental Change and Security Project’s 7th annual Report explores the connection between conflict and hunger, and looks at environmental stress and human security in Northern Pakistan. This issue also includes commentaries on the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2015 report; and a special forum addressing the question: Is there a population implosion?
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Dilemmas for Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Margaret E. Keck, Margaret Keck is professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and a recent Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the author of two prize-winning books: Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (with Kathrun Sikkink) and The Workers Party and Democratization in Brazil. She has also published numerous articles on environmental politics.
More than a decade after the images of flames devouring the rainforest focused international attention on the Brazilian Amazon, the fires continue to burn. This article traces the history of conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon and then argues that repeated failure to understand or accomodate the political factors at work in the Amazon undermines environmentalists' efforts to protect the rainforest.
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Forum: Is There a Population Implosion
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Book Reviews
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Meeting Summaries
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ECSP Report 6
The 2000 issue of the Environmental Change and Security Project Report features Richard E. Benedick on human population and environmental stress in the 21st century, and Okechukwu Ibeanu on environmental management in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Additional commentaries address environment, population, and conflict; and trade and the environment.
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Feature I: Human Population and Environmental Stresses
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Special Report I: Infectious Disease and U.S. National Security
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Special Report II: Exploring Capacity for Integrating Population and Environment Programs
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Commentary I: Environment, Population and Conflict
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Official Statements
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ECSP Meetings
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Update Section and Bibliography
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ECSP Report 5
The 1999 issue of the Environmental Change and Security Project Report includes features on population, urbanization, environment, and security; agriculture and conflict; and environmental change, security, and social conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon. This issue also includes a look at the University of Michigan Population Fellows Program.
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Feature Article: Population, Urbanization, Environment, and Security: A Summary of the Issues
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Official Statements
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New Publications
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Update Section
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ECSP Report 4
Environmental Change and Security Project Report 4 includes pieces on the role of environmental degradation in population displacement; U.S. population policy since the Cairo conference; and a synthesis of the connection between environmental transformation and conflict. The issue also explores forest plunder in Southeast Asia, and the U.S.-China relationship over environment.
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Feature Article: U.S. Population Policy Since the Cairo Conference
Author: Craig Lasher
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Feature Article: The Role of Environmental Degradation in Population Displacement
Author: Steve Lonergan
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Official Statements and New Publications
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Event Summaries
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Inventory
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Bibliography
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ECSP Report 3
The 1997 issue of the Environmental Change and Security Project’s annual report frames environment in terms of the U.S. security debate, explores ecological security and demographic change; and includes a commentary on human population prospects.
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Feature Article: Demographic Change and Ecological Security
Author: Dennis Pirages
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Feautre Article: Human Population Prospects
Author: Robert Engelman
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Official Statements and New Publications
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Event Summaries, Inventory and Bibliography
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ECSP Report 2
In the 1996 issue of the Environmental Change and Security Project’s annual report, Miriam R. Lowi writes about water disputes in the Middle East, while Dennis Pirages explores “microsecurity”—the connection between disease organisms and human well-being. Also in this issue: a look at overseas contamination by the military; an action plan for population, development, and environment; and Thomas Homer-Dixon’s findings frm a project on environment, population, and security; among other articles.
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Report 2 (Part 1)
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Report 2 (Part 2)
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ECSP Report 1
The first-ever annual report from the Environmental Change and Security Program includes Geoff Dabelko and David D. Dabelko’s feature on redefining environmental security, Richard A. Matthew’s commentary on demystifying the concept of environmental security. This issue also includes an article on world population growth’s impact on U.S. national security, and Marc A. Levy’s call for a third wave of environmental security scholarship.
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Report 1 (Part 1)
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Report 1 (Part 2)
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Population, Environmental Change, and Security (PECS) News
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Issue 9 (Spring 2004)
Featuring:
Navigating Peace in the Okavango River Basin
by Anton Earle and Ariel Méndez
Book Review by Colin Kahl: Breaking the Conflict Trap by Paul Collier, et al.
Serving the Stewards: Improving Reproductive Health and Protecting the Amazonian Rainforest by Caryl Feldacker, University of Michigan Population Fellow
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Stepping Up to the Global Challenge by Randall Tobias
Jeffrey McKee's Sparing Nature: The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Biodiversity
Population Action International's The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict After the Cold War
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Issue 8
Featuring:
When the Whole is Greater than the Sum of its
Parts: Integrated Indicators for Population-
Environment Programs by Eckhard Kleinau and Jennifer Talbot
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Issue 7
Featuring:
Burning the Bridge to the 21st Century: The End of the Era of Integrated Conferences? by Frederick A.B. Meyerson
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Issue 5
Featuring:
Conflict and Contagion: A South Asia Simulation featuring Dr. Helene Gayle
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Issue 4
Featuring:
The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty: Special Release and Discussion of the New 2001 IFAD Rural Poverty Report
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Issue 3
Featuring:
Wilson Center Hosts Forum on HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
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Issue 1
Featuring:
Population Dynamics, Migration, and the Future of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve featuring Jenny Ericson
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Finding the Source: The Linkages Between Population and Water
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Finding the Source: The Linkages Between Population and Water
Population and fresh water are widely recognized as two of the most important issues facing humanity. Yet too few policymakers are aware of the close links between these two phenomena as well as their ramifications for livelihoods, economic productivity, and political and regional stability.
Finding the Source: The Linkages Between Population and Water takes an important step towards increasing knowledge about these interconnections. Its three articles highlight some of the most critical issues facing environment and development policy today. Finding the Source is also a step towards amplifying Southern voices in these policy discussions: by design, the author-team for each of these articles includes one Southern and one Northern writer. Each paper also features substantial treatment of developing-country cases (the Philippines, India, and sub-Saharan Africa). The common message is unmistakable: global water problems are still soluble-but only with concerted international action that includes efforts to address population growth.
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Introduction
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The Coming Freshwater Crisis is Already Here
Author: Don Hinrichsen and Henrylito Tacio
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Urbanization and Intersectoral Competition for Water
Author: Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Paul P. Appasamy
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Exploring the Population/Water Resources Nexus in the Developing World
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