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Publications
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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.
Watch video interviews with Report 13 authors
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Asia's Future: Critical Thinking for a Changing Environment
Starting in October 2008, CEF and the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Project were charged by the U.S. Agency for International Development with investigating Asia’s most serious environmental challenges. CEF and ECSP held 9 roundtables with experts and conducted interviews and research that helped create this report that focused mainly on Southeast Asia that identifies global trends impacting environment and highlights opportunities for USAID and other donors to improve environmental protection.
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Water Stories: Expanding Opportunities in Small-Scale Water and Sanitation Projects
The poor performance of many large-scale water and sanitation projects has caused the international community to focus increasingly on small-scale and community-based projects. There remains, however, an urgent need for more research and information on these methods. Water Stories: Expanding Opportunities in Small-Scale Water and Sanitation Projects, a report by the Wilson Center's Navigating Peace Initiative, examines alternatives to large-scale infrastructure projects in the water and sanitation sectors. Funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the study explores how lessons learned from small-scale projects can be effectively communicated and replicated worldwide.
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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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Navigating Peace: Water Conflict and Cooperation
A series of policy briefs examines how water can contribute to cooperation between states, while addressing water’s role in conflict within states. The briefs offer policy recommendations for using water resources management to head off conflict and to support sustainable peace among countries. All briefs are available in French, and two are available in Portuguese.
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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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China Environment Series
The China Environment Forum's annual China Environment Series features leading scholarship and policy analysis on China’s environmental and energy challenges.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Environmental Change and Security Program
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: ecsp@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4000
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