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Environmental Change and Security Program

Since 1994, the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) has explored the connections among environmental, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.[1] ECSP brings together scholars, policymakers, the media, and practitioners through events, research, publications, multimedia content (audio and video), and the daily blog, New Security Beat.[2][3][4]

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the living, national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs.[5]

Activities

ECSP currently has three primary topical focus areas:

  1. Integrated Development: Health, Environment, Livelihoods, Population, and Security (HELPS – a project funded by the USAID Office of Population and Reproductive Health): The world’s poor face a complex set of interconnected development challenges. Global population dynamics such as urbanization, youth bulges, and migration can affect political stability and conflict dynamics. ECSP serves as a forum for presenting new research and debating practical policy options on population-health-environment connections and demographic security in developing countries.
  2. Environment, Conflict, and Security: Natural resources are increasingly factors in conflict outcomes and the security of states. Climate change is expected to act as a threat multiplier in many security contexts. Yet environmental interdependence is proving a powerful incentive for cooperation and peacebuilding. ECSP works with policymakers, practitioners, and scholars to debate new research and develop policy responses in environmental, diplomatic, development, and security realms.
  3. Water: Changes in water availability pose fundamental challenges to global health, development, and stability of communities and states. ECSP programs and publications focus on water’s potential to spur conflict and cooperation, its social and economic value, and its relationship to health and disease.

Publications

ECSP produces a series of program reports as well as the FOCUS series of short briefs on integrated population, health, and environment programs. Previous occasional publications include Navigating Peace: Forging New Water Partnerships and Water Stories: Expanding Opportunities in Small-Scale Water and Sanitation Projects.

Support

ECSP is supported by grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development, under the Health, Environment, Livelihoods, Population, and Security (HELPS) Project and the Resources for Peace Project (RFPP).[6]

Staff

References

  1. ^ Environmental Change and Security Program
  2. ^ About ECSP
  3. ^ New Security Beat
  4. ^ ECSP on YouTube
  5. ^ About the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  6. ^ About ECSP
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