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Environmental Change and Security Program

The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was founded in 1994 to explore the connections among environmental, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.[1][2][3] ECSP works to bring together scholars, policymakers, the media, and practitioners through events, research, publications, multimedia content (audio and video), and the daily blog, New Security Beat. [4][5][6][7]

Activities

ECSP currently has three primary topical focus areas:[1]

  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.[8][9] 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.[10][11][12]
  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.[13] 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.[14] 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.[15]

Publications

ECSP produces a series of program reports as well as the FOCUS series of short briefs on integrated population, health, and environment programs.[16] 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).[1]

Staff

References

  1. ^ a b c About ECSP
  2. ^ Morello, Lauren (2010). “Accelerating Arctic Changes Pose Long-Term Risks for the U.S. Navy,” The New York Times. New York, 24 March 2010.
  3. ^ Revkin, Andrew (2011). “7 Billion and Counting” The New York Times. New York, 8 January 2011.
  4. ^ ECSP Events
  5. ^ 2011 Population Institute Global Media Award for "Best Online Commentary or Blog"
  6. ^ Press Association, "World population set to reach 7bn." Independent.ie, 17 October 2011.
  7. ^ ECSP’s YouTube Channel
  8. ^ Cincotta, Richard; Leahy, Elizabeth (2006), Population Age Structure and Its Relation to Civil Conflict: A Graphic Metric. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
  9. ^ Leahy, Elizabeth; Engelman, Robert; Vogel, Carolyn Gibb; Haddock, Sarah; Preston, Tod (2007). The Shape of Things to Come – Why Age Structure Matters To A Safer, More Equitable World. Washington, DC: Population Action International.
  10. ^ Agence France-Press (2010). “US forum urges contraception aid for poor countries.” Washington, DC, 17 October 2010.
  11. ^ Anderson, Lisa (2012). “Time to tackle 'last taboo' of contraception and climate – experts,” AlertNet. New York, 29 February 2012.
  12. ^ C-SPAN, “Wilson Center Discussion on Democracy in the Middle East [VIDEO].” 24 March 2011.
  13. ^ U.S. Department of Defense (2010). Quadrennial Defense Review. Washington, DC.
  14. ^ UNESCO (2012). UN World Water Development Report. Paris.
  15. ^ Morello, Lauren (2009). “Europe 'living beyond its means' when it comes to water use,” The New York Times. New York, 18 March 2009.
  16. ^ ECSP Publications

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