Population Publications
On the Record @ the Wilson Center
Jul 07, 2011"On the Record," a compendium of quotations from the past year of ECSP meetings, features many candid assessments of global environmental, population, and security issues. more
ECSP Report 6: Event Summaries
Jul 07, 2011Event summaries from meetings sponsored by the Environmental Change and Security Program between June 1999 and May 2000. more
Climate-Related Conflicts in West Africa
Jul 07, 2011Natural resource-related conflicts are the predominant types of conflict in northern Nigeria, according to research by Anthony Nyong. Predicted climactic changes will affect patterns of distribution and availability, and potentially further exacerbate conflict, he writes. more
ECSP Report 4: Official Statements and New Publications
Jul 07, 2011Excerpts from recent official statements in which environmental issues are cited in the context of security institutions
and national interests, and reviews by experts of new publications. more
Defusing the Population Bomb: Is Security a Rationale for Reducing Global Population Growth?
Jul 07, 2011Urdal's analysis finds that population growth, land scarcity, and urbanization do not greatly influence patterns of war and peace, with a few exceptions. more
Chapter One: Analyzing Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation
Jul 07, 2011This chapter identifies ten methodological, analytical, and substantive opportunities for future research, and five areas in which focused analysis could bolster policymaking. more
Burning the Bridge to the 21st Century: The End of the Era of Integrated Conferences
Jul 07, 2011While global environmental and population challenges are clearer and more pressing than ever, the international community seems less capable of constructive agreement, writes Frederick Meyerson. more
Protecting Regional Seas: Developing Capacity and Fostering Environmental Cooperation in Europe
Jul 07, 2011Conference proceedings from Saving the Seas: Developing Capacity and Fostering Environmental Cooperation in Europe, held 14 May 1999 at the Wilson Center. more
In Defense of Environment and Security Research
Jul 07, 2011Since the end of the Cold War, many policymakers and researchers have been rethinking and pushing the boundaries of the definition of security. Perhaps the most extensive and controversial part of this project has been the numerous and varied attempts to identify links among environmental change, conflict, and security. more
3. Religion and Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Jul 07, 2011Because of the endeavors to bring in the churches as associates for the building up of a real socialist society, anti-church policies and an aggressive atheist propaganda have been abandoned in some countries. Fundamentally, a similar tendency can be observed at work in the Soviet Union. The existence of the church is more or less accepted or tolerated and the fight against religion is, in some publications,presented as a fight against those social roots from which religion arises. more
