• woodrow wilson center
  • ecsp

New Security Beat

Subscribe:
  • rss
  • mail-to
  • Who We Are
  • Topics
    • Population
    • Environment
    • Security
    • Health
    • Development
  • Columns
    • China Environment Forum
    • Choke Point
    • Dot-Mom
    • Friday Podcasts
    • Reading Radar
  • Multimedia
    • Water Stories (Podcast Series)
    • Backdraft (Podcast Series)
    • Tracking the Energy Titans (Interactive)
  • Films
    • Water, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (Animated Short)
    • Paving the Way (Ethiopia)
    • Broken Landscape (India)
    • Scaling the Mountain (Nepal)
    • Healthy People, Healthy Environment (Tanzania)
  • Publications
  • Events
  • Contact Us

NewSecurityBeat

The blog of the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program
Showing posts from category adaptation.
  • Permafrost Melt, Rising Seas, and Coastal Erosion Threaten Arctic Communities

    ›
    November 5, 2019  //  By Shawn Archbold
    Christmas_came_early_for_one_Alaska_village_151016-Z-MW427-552

    “In 1959, he knew it was coming,” said Delbert Pungowiyi, a Yupik native of Savoonga, Alaska, on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea in an interview at the Wilson Center’s 8th Syymposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations. “He prepared me my whole life for this. It is a crisis.”

    MORE
  • Climate Change, Conflict, and Peacebuilding in Solomon Island Communities

    ›
    Guest Contributor  //  November 4, 2019  //  By Kate Higgins & Josiah Maesua
    17143571825_5207034fd4_c

    This article, by Kate Higgins and Josiah Maesua, is based on a Toda Peace Institute Policy Brief, “Climate change, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands.”

    Meaningful engagement with the social and conflict implications of climate change in Solomon Islands must be firmly grounded within local worldviews—within Solomon Islanders’ physical, economic, political, and social and spiritual worlds. As we note in a recent policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute, when addressing conflict challenges exacerbated or caused by climate change, approaches should be draw upon community understandings of what constitutes peace and justice. 

    MORE
  • When Climate Change Meets Positive Peace

    ›
    Guest Contributor  //  July 17, 2019  //  By Marisa O. Ensor

    Climate change is being increasingly framed as a security issue—a “threat multiplier” that can amplify the risks of breakdowns in peacefulness. Yet, even extreme climate hazards do not always lead to higher levels of violence.

    MORE
  • To Mitigate Climate-Fragility Risks, Build Preventative Capacity in Fragile States

    ›
    On the Beat  //  April 23, 2019  //  By Truett Sparkman
    Bangladesh Flood

    “When states face fragility and climate risks simultaneously, the risks and challenges are compounded,” according to The Intersection of Global Fragility and Climate Risks, a new global report commissioned by USAID, which was presented during a recent USAID Adaptation Community Meeting webcast. States facing major climate hazards, such as flooding, drought, and sea level rise, will be forced to contend with the cost of humanitarian and adaptation responses to mitigate the physical and livelihood risks threatening their populations. Fragile states struggling with issues of legitimacy in the social, economic, political, and security spheres may become overwhelmed by the process and cost of redirecting limited resources to address climate-induced disasters.  

    MORE
  • Snow and Ice Melt Patterns Help Predict Water Supply for Major Asian River Basins

    ›
    From the Wilson Center  //  December 21, 2018  //  By Truett Sparkman
    2269225248_c60c9ffd13_b

    “For the longest time we thought that water was forever renewable and that it would always be there,” said Gloria Steele, Acting Assistant Administrator for Asia with USAID, at a recent Wilson Center event on water security in High Asia. “We now know that is not the case, and we need to protect it and manage it effectively.”

    MORE
  • More than Just a BRI Greenwash: Green Bonds Pushing Climate-Friendly Investment

    ›
    China Environment Forum  //  December 13, 2018  //  By Alan Meng
    CEF green bonds

    From the cultural hub of Lahore down to the bustling ports of Karachi, smog is king in Pakistan, with citizens enduring unhealthy air quality for much of the year. The smog, generated mostly by crop and garbage burning and diesel emissions from furnaces and cars, could get worse by the end of this year when Pakistan opens five new Chinese-built coal power plants, funded by a $6.8 billion venture under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative. These five plants are just the beginning of the Pakistan government’s planned 7,560 MW expansion in coal power, which are CPEC-energy priority projects. “It’s a perfect storm for a pollution crisis,” said Michael Kugelman of the Wilson Center’s Asia Program. “The poor will continue to burn a variety of polluting materials to produce fuel, and now you’re also going to be introducing dirty coal into the mix. Combine that with crop burning in the countrywide and car exhaust fumes in rapidly growing cities, and you’ve got a really smoggy mess on your hands—and in your lungs.”

    MORE
  • Stormy Weather: Human Security Should Include Freedom from Hazard Impacts

    ›
    Guest Contributor  //  November 7, 2018  //  By Dhanasree Jayaram
    Mumbai Rain Storm

    The original version of this article by Dhanasree Jayaram was published by Climate Diplomacy.

    It is imperative that countries adopt a human security approach to achieve “freedom from hazard impacts”—nationally through a scientific disaster risk reduction strategy and internationally through climate diplomacy.

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

    ›
    Guest Contributor  //  October 31, 2018  //  By Caroline Wanjiku Kihato & Mike Rogan
    Bangkok Street Vendors

    For this World Cities Day, the UN’s theme calls for “building sustainable and resilient cities.” Cities across the Global South are assessing their physical preparedness against future shocks. Can cities that leave out—or often push out—poor workers claim resiliency? These moves are, in fact, weakening any preparedness. The foundations of truly sustainable and resilient cities lie in their residents’ abilities and agency.

    MORE
  Older Posts
View full site

Join the Conversation

  • RSS
  • subscribe
  • facebook
  • G+
  • twitter
  • iTunes
  • podomatic
  • youtube
Tweets by NewSecurityBeat

Trending Stories

  • unfccclogo1
  • Pop at COP: Population and Family Planning at the UN Climate Negotiations

Featured Media

Backdraft Podcast

play Backdraft
Podcasts

More »

What You're Saying

  • 5933228955_318aee0595_k Understanding and Responding to the Role of Drought in National Security
    Kevin Kinney: Hello NSB, I think I have the "Silver Bullet." My new Desalination / Power Plant can be built to...
  • shutterstock_145672460 From Caution to Creative Solutions: The Necessary Evolution of the Climate Migration Debate
    Jim Hight: Lots of good info here, but a major weakness in your analysis is failing to reckon with the...
  • 48833284502_ea300c5bff_o Two Divergent Paths for Our Planet Revealed in New IPCC Report on Oceans and Cryosphere
    Don Qui: great article. love this sentence " The most important takeaway of the report is that we are...

What We’re Reading

  • How can cash transfers help protect the poor?
  • As hurricane season ends, now is the time to take local action to rebuild and recover (commentary)
  • Targeting Environmental Activists With Counterterrorism Measures is an Abuse of the Law
  • Hot weather raises risk of early childbirth, study finds | Society
  • New app predicts water-related conflict up to year in ...
More »
  • woodrow
  • ecsp
  • RSS Feed
  • YouTube
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • Publications
  • Events
  • Wilson Center
  • Contact Us
  • Print Friendly Page

© Copyright 2007-2019. Environmental Change and Security Program.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. All rights reserved.

Developed by Vico Rock Media

Environmental Change and Security Program

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

  • One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
  • 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
  • Washington, DC 20004-3027

T 202-691-4000