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  • Climate Science, Military and Gender Roles, and the Tibetan Plateau

    September 14, 2010 By Geoffrey D. Dabelko
    Here are some useful links to environment, population, and security work that recently crossed my desk.

    • Need a break from the raging debate set off by Halvard Buhaug’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quantitative-based critique of climate and African civil war linkages (or lack thereof)? Check out some of the correlations Cullen Hendrix and Idean Salehyan of University of North Texas find in their piece “After the Rain: Rainfall Variability, Hydro-Meteorological Disasters, and Social Conflict in Africa.”

    • A German military think tank report worries about the economic and political implications of peak oil over a relatively short time frame.

    • Militaries’ humanitarian responses to extreme weather events rather than actual shooting wars are the focus of “The Coming Conflicts of Climate Change,” by U.S. Navy Foreign Area Officer Michael Baker. Baker is writing for the Council on Foreign Relations as one of their International Affairs Fellows.

    • Oxfam America and IUCN staff experts call for greater consideration of different gender roles in addressing climate change. UN climate institutions are targeted in the IPS story.

    • Journalist Steve Solomon highlights the high politics of transboundary water in Asia with a piece in Forbes. China’s control of the Tibetan water tower with massive dam building amps up the pressure in South and Southeast Asia.

    • Canadian scholar Eric Kaufmann’s book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? breaks down relative population growth rates between the religious and the secular. One is high, one is below replacement level. So far the book is only published in Europe but you can get it from Amazon UK.

    • The highly respected science journal Nature editorializes against the rising tide of loud anti-science demagoguery. Strong words on the U.S. political context.

    Follow Geoff Dabelko (@geoffdabelko) and The New Security Beat (@NewSecurityBeat) on Twitter for more population, health, environment, and security updates.
    Topics: Across My Desk, Africa, climate change, conflict, demography, environmental security, gender, population, security, water
    • http://www.blogger.com/profile/18337694112852162181 Geoff Dabelko

      I should also add that the Hendrix and Salehyan work on lower levels of conflict and connections to rainfall is part of a research effort entitled Climate Change and African Political Stability, a consortium of university research efforts under a MINERVA grant. CCAPS has a range of other relevant and worthwhile efforts http://ccaps.robertstrausscenter.org/

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