Can climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts lead to tension or even conflict between countries? The latest issue of ECSP Report examines this often over-looked question in Backdraft, introduced by ECSP Senior Advisor Geoff Dabelko in last month’s most popular post. Other popular newcomers were guest contributor Alan M. Wright on FEMA’s new Strategic Foresight Initiative report; a major meeting of water-cooperation minds at the Wilson Center in April; a breakdown of two major reports about the Arab Spring and climate change; and how policymakers in Kenya and Malawi are combining population policy with climate change and development.

1. Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (ECSP Report 14), Geoff Dabelko

2. What Does It Take to Cooperate? Transboundary Water Management Around the World, Carolyn Lamere

3. Looking Back to Get Ahead: FEMA’s Strategic Foresight Initiative on Natural Disaster Preparedness, Alan M. Wright

4. National Intelligence Council Releases ‘Global Trends 2030’: Prominent Roles Predicted for Demographic and Environmental Trends, Schuyler Null, Katharine Diamond

5. Urban Health and Demography Trends: More Cities, More Problems? Carolyn Lamere

6. Band of Conflict: What Role Do Demographics, Climate Change, and Natural Resources Play in the Sahel? Graham Norwood, Schuyler Null

7. Avoiding the Resource Curse in East Africa’s Oil and Natural Gas Boom, Jill Shankleman

8. Spring Thaw: What Role Did Climate Change and Natural Resource Scarcity Play in the Arab Spring? Schuyler Null, Maria Prebble

9. Taming Hunger in Ethiopia: The Role of Population Dynamics, Laurie Mazur

10. Lessons From Kenya and Malawi on Combining Climate Change, Development, and Population Policy, Maria Prebble