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Top 10 Posts for July 2010
›The new conflict minerals law, Yemen, and the “4 Degree” map top the list this month:
1. DRC’s Conflict Minerals: Can U.S. Law Impact the Violence?
2. Demographics, Depleted Resources, and Al Qaeda Inflame Tensions in Yemen
3. Eye on Environmental Security: Guest Contributor Rear Admiral Morisetti Launches the UK’s “4 Degree Map” on Google Earth
4. Time to Give a Dam: Alternative Energy as Source of Cooperation or Conflict?
5. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment In Aynak
6. India’s Maoists: South Asia’s “Other” Insurgency
7. A Backdraft Video: Stacy VanDeveer: Will Using Less Oil Affect Petro State Stability?
8. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water
9. Is the Third Pole the Next Site for Water Crisis?
10. Interview: Educate Girls, Boys, To Meet the Population Challenge, Say Pakistan’s Leading Demographers -
Top 10 Posts for June 2010
›Women Deliver and conflict minerals top the Beat this month:
1. Dot Mom: Women Deliver in Climate Change Debate
2. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investments in Aynak
3. Rare Earth: A New Roadblock for Sustainable Energy?
4. Guest Contributor Caitlyn L Antrim, Rule of Law Committee for the Oceans: Trillions of Dollars of Minerals? Misuing Geology and Economics to the Detriment of Policy
5. Guest Contributor Michael Kugelman, Wilson Center: Look Beyond Islamabad To Solve Pakistan’s “Other” Threats
6. Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Gold Mine, Curse, or Illusion?
7. Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Mitigation
8. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water
9. The Plundered Planet: A Discussion With Paul Collier
10. Eye on Environmental Security: Natural Resource Frontiers at Sea -
Top 10 Posts for May 2010
›Fragile states and food security top the Beat this month:
1. VIDEO—Harriet Birungi: Challenges Facing HIV-Positive Adolescents in Kenya
2. On the Beat: The Food Security Debate: From Malthus to Seinfeld
3. Guest Contributor Michael Kugelman, Wilson Center: Look Beyond Islamabad To Solve Pakistan’s “Other” Threats
4. As Somalia Sinks, Neighbors Face a Fight to Stay Afloat
5. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment in Aynak
6. Feed the Future: USAID’s Shah Focuses on Women, Innovation, Integration
7. Eye on Environmental Security: USAID Launches GeoExplorer: Connecting Natural Resource Management Activities, Practitioners, and Communities
8. Guest Contributor: Todd Walters, International Peace Park Expeditions: Imagine There’s No Countries: Conservation Beyond Borders in the Balkans
9. DOD Measures Up On Climate Change, Energy
10. Campus Beat: Finding a Home for Political Demography -
Top 10 Posts for April 2010
›Peace parks remain at the top for two months in a row, but the rest of April’s faves includes new posts on population and climate change.
1. Guest Contributor Todd Walters, International Peace Park Expeditions: Imagine There’s No Countries: Conservation Beyond Borders in the Balkans
2. Climate Change and Energy in Defense Doctrine: The QDR and UK Defence Green Paper
3. Book Review: Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map by Cleo Paskal
4. Guest Contributor Rear Admiral Morisetti: Climate Change: A Threat to Global Security
5. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment in Aynak
6. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water
7. Megatrends: Embracing Complexity in Today’s Population and Migration Challenges
8. VIDEO: Joshua Busby on Climate Change and African Political Stability
9. The Beat on the Ground: Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains — Cassie Gardener Reports on Integrating Population, Health, and Environment
10. Canada Flip-Flops on Family Planning; Will the G-8 Follow? -
Top 10 Posts for March 2010
›Spring brings a new crop of top posts, knocking video king Peter Gleick down a few notches:
1. Guest Contributor Todd Walters, International Peace Park Expeditions: Imagine There’s No Countries: Conservation Beyond Borders in the Balkans
2. Guest Contributor Rear Admiral Morisetti: Climate Change: A Threat to Global Security
3. A Forecast of Push and Pull: Climate Change and Global Migration
4. Guest Contributors Cleo Paskal and Scott Savit: How Copenhagen Has Changed Geopolitics: The Real Take-Home Message From Copenhagen is Not What You Think
5. Tapping In: Secretary Clinton on World Water Day
6. Healing the Rift: Mitigating Conflict Over Natural Resources in the Albertine Rift
7. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment in Aynak
8. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water
9. Eye on Environmental Security: World Bank Data Visualization
10. Energy Is a “Constraint on Our Deployed Forces”: DOD DOEPP Nominee Sharon Burke -
The Top 10 Posts of 2010 (So Far)
›1. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water
2. Can Haiti Change Course Before the Next Storm?
3. Guest Contributors Cleo Paskal and Scott Savit: How Copenhagen Has Changed Geopolitics: The Real Take-Home Message From Copenhagen Is Not What You Think
4. Hardship in Haiti: Family Planning and Poverty
5. Water, Conflict, and Cooperation: Practical Concerns for Water Development Projects
6. Collier and Birdsall: Plunder or Peace
7. VIDEO: UNEP’s David Jensen on Linking Environment, Conflict, and Peace in the United Nations
8. Gates: More Money for Global Health Is Good for the Environment
9. Lessons From the Field: Focusing on Environment, Health, and Development to Address Conflict
10. Land Grab: Sacrificing the Environment for Food Security -
The Top 10 Posts of 2009
›1. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water
2. Guest Contributor James R. Fleming: Climate Engineering Is Untested and Dangerous
3. Video: Malcolm Potts on Sex and War
4. New UNEP Report Explores Environment’s Links to Conflict, Peacebuilding
5. PODCAST – A Discussion on Climate Change and Security: Arctic Links and U.S. Intelligence Community Responses
6. East Africa Population-Health-Environment Conference Kicks Off in Kigali
7. Food, Water, Energy, Timber, Population: Do Madagascar’s Forests Stand a Chance?
8. Guest Contributor Tod Preston on Pakistan’s Daunting—and Deteriorating—Demographic Challenge
9. VIDEO: Kent Butts on Climate Change, Security, and the U.S. Military
10. Water a National Security Issue, Says Senator Richard Durbin -
November’s Top 10 Blog Posts on the Beat
›1. The Campus Beat: Using Blogs, Facebook, to Teach Environmental Security at West Point
2. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water
3. Guest Contributor James R. Fleming: Climate Engineering Is Untested and Dangerous
4. Guest Contributor Elizabeth Leahy Madsen: Pakistan’s Demographic Challenge Is Not Just Economic
5. Columbia University’s Marc Levy on Mapping Population and Geographic Data
6. Prostitution, Agriculture, Development Fuel Human Trafficking in Brazil
7. Reporting From Kenya: U.S. Editors Cover Health, Environment, and Security
8. Ethiopia: A Holistic Approach to Community Development Blossoms Two Years After Taking Root
9. On the Beat: Climate-Security Gets “To the Point” Today
10. Covering Climate: What’s Population Got to Do With It?
