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Not Practicing What It Preaches: China Invests Heavily in Renewable Energy While Exporting Low-Efficiency Coal Power Plants to Developing Countries

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Resilient Cities Need to Support the Informal Economy: Millions of Overlooked Working Poor

The Double Burden of Climate Exposure and State Fragility

Green Conflict Minerals: Investigating Renewable Energy Supply Chains in Fragile States

As Andean Glaciers Retreat, So Does Regional Security

USAID's Measuring Impact Closeout Event

Water Security in a New Age of Nationalism

Environmental Security in Times of Armed Conflict

The Dark Side of the Sun: Avoiding Conflict Over Solar Energy’s Land and Water Demands

Mothers on the Front Lines: Armed Conflict, Aid Distribution, and Maternal and Child Health

Cape Town’s Harrowing Journey to the Brink of Water Catastrophe

Big Dams, Big Damage: The Growing Risk of Failure

The Kariba Dam, which generates hydro-electric power for Zambia and Zimbabwe, September 2010. Courtesy of Joe McKenna.

Trump Builds Upon Obama’s Fight Against Illegal Wildlife Trafficking

Recycled Water Could Solve Beijing’s Water Woes, But Implementation Falls Short

Bangladesh and Pakistan: Demographic Twins Grow Apart

Warning: The Amazon May Soon Reach the Point of No Return on Forest Loss

The Crushing Environmental Impact of China’s Cement Industry

Like Water and Oil: Fish as a Geostrategic Resource

Water and Governance: Changing Water Laws in a Changing Climate

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The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. // Read more

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G7 'New Climate for Peace' Report

Feature Films
Paving the Way: Ethiopia’s Youth on the Road to Sustainability
Paving the Way
The third film in ECSP's “Healthy People, Healthy Environment” series transports viewers to an innovative development project in Ethiopia’s Gurage Zone where youth and their parents are working together to build a more sustainable future.
Ethiopia’s Youth on the Road to Sustainability
Broken Landscape: Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point
Global Choke Point
Broken Landscape
In India’s resource-rich Meghalaya State, demand for coal is transforming the environment and the people who depend on it. Coal mine owners are prospering from booming production, but few laws regulate the dangerous and polluting practice known as “rat-hole” mining. Until now.
Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point
Scaling the Mountain: Protecting Forests for Families in Nepal
Scaling the Mountain
In the second film in ECSP's "Healthy People, Healthy Environment" series, villagers in Nepal find that combining conservation efforts with reproductive health services helps them support their families and their communities more sustainably.
Protecting Forests for Families in Nepal

Experts & Staff

Michael Sfraga
Director, Global Sustainability and Resilience Program and Director, Polar Institute
Lauren Herzer Risi
Project Director, Environmental Change and Security Program
Amanda King
Program Assistant
John Thon Majok
Senior Program Analyst, Global Sustainability and Resilence Program
Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Senior Advisor, ECSP; Former Director, ECSP
Ruth Greenspan Bell
Public Policy Fellow
Maxine Burkett
Global Fellow
Richard Cincotta
Global Fellow
Jack Goldstone
Global Policy Fellow
Sherri Goodman
Senior Fellow
Sharon Guynup
Global Fellow, Former Public Policy Fellow
Tait Keller
Fellow
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
Global Fellow
William Krist
Global Fellow
Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba
Associate Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College; Global Fellow, Wilson Center
John W. Sewell
Global Fellow