Climate and Environment

Opinion – An Environmental Focus for US-Central Asia Relations

Wilder Alejandro Sánchez • Nov 29 2023 • Articles

Central Asia faces several environmental challenges, some natural and others human-made, which will be exacerbated by climate change.

Implications of Biodiversity Loss on National and International Security

Ben Parker • Nov 7 2023 • Articles

Based on the performance of biodiversity conservation efforts to date, it is very difficult to stem and even more so to reverse.

Opinion – The World Bank’s Comprehensive Climate-Centric Transformation

Rizwan Basir • Jul 30 2023 • Articles

The World Bank faces mounting pressure to prioritize climate change as its new overarching mission, which will require significant adjustments to its investments and orientation.

Opinion – Academics Opening Their Hearts for Climate Actions

Louise Taylor and John Barry • Jul 3 2023 • Articles

It is high time for the academy and intellectuals to take decisive action to come together and collaborate on the climate crisis.

Interview – Christiane Fröhlich

E-International Relations • Jun 29 2023 • Features

Christiane Fröhlich explores the relationship between climate change, human mobility and conflict, as well as the role governments and policymakers play.

Process Sociology and the Global Ecological Crisis

André Saramago • Mar 31 2023 • Articles

In light of the global ecological crisis, Process Sociology offers a framework encompassing the role of human/non-human nature relations in world politics.

Colombia’s ‘Total Peace’ and Climate Change

Never has the Colombian government had as much leverage to negotiate the climate crisis than the present, with the new president and his total peace initiative.

Environment and Climate

Raul Pacheco-Vega • May 19 2022 • Online resources

Our planet carries 8 billion people. Yet its capacity to provide for each of us is threatened by population growth, climate change, deforestation, collapse of fisheries, desertification, air pollution and scarcity of fresh water.

Global Governance: Human Rights and Environmental Governance

Kevin Bloor • May 19 2022 • Articles

The international community faces a number of issues and barriers that are integral towards the fight against climate change, running up against questions of power and influence over the system as a whole.

Agroecology, Climate Change Induced Polycrisis and the Transformation of Food Systems

Miguel A Altieri • Apr 20 2022 • Articles

Heroic efforts displayed by peasants and indigenous people represent spaces of hope against the weight of ecological breakdown and social injustice.

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