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The Wisdom Imperative: Peace through Education for a Sustainable World

2022 | Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering and Science
Sue L. T. McGregor

Unsustainable consumption is a problem of conscience and a societal challenge thwarting a sustainable world. Morally conscious consumption is grounded in wisdom. The paper thus ties wisdom…

Military Capabilities Affected by Climate Change. An Analysis of China, Russia and the United States

2023 | Clingendael Magazine
Adája Stoetman, Dick Zandee, Niels Drost, and Louise van Schaik

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of the present and the future. Rising temperatures and sea levels, as well as extreme weather…

Environmental Accountability, Justice and Reconstruction in the Russian War on Ukraine

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Jiyayi Zhou and Ian Anthony

Next month will mark one year since Russia began its full-scale war on Ukraine. This large-scale land invasion has had repercussions across the geopolitical, humanitarian, financial, and…

Toxic Diplomacy through Environmental Management: A Necessary Next Step for Environmental Peacebuilding

2022 | World Development Perspectives
Richard A. Marcantonio

The field of environmental peacebuilding (EP) addresses many of the critical issues related to negative human outcomes from environmental change, especially violent conflict. However, the…

The Role of Working-Class Communities and the Slow Violence of Toxic Pollution in Environmental Health Conflicts: A Global Perspective

2022 | Global Environmental Change
Grettel Navas, Giacomo D'Alisa, and Joan Martinez-Alier

Analysing a sample of 3,033 environmental conflicts around the globe, we compared conflicts reporting no human health impacts to those reporting health impacts linked to…

Iraq's Dying Garden of Eden [Video]

2022 | VICE News
Ben C. Solomon

In Iraq, climate change has transformed the once mythical mesopotamian marshes into deserts. It's not only temperatures that exceed 125°F and record low rainfall, but…

Climate Damage Caused by Russia’s War in Ukraine

2022 | Climate Focus
Adrian Korthuis, Anatolii Shmurak, Kyryl Tomliak, Lennard de Klerk, Mykola Shlapak, and Olga Gassan-Zade

Months of the military conflict caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has caused significant damage and led to the unfolding of a humanitarian crisis.…

Climate Collateral: How Military Spending Accelerates Climate Breakdown

2022 | Transnational Institute
Mark Akkerman, Deborah Burton, Nick Buxton, Ho-Chih Lin, and Muhammed Al-Kashef

This report shows that military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone…

Ukraine Environmental Conflict Briefing: Industry

2022 | Conflict and Environment Observatory and Zoï Environment Network

High intensity armed conflicts in heavily industrialised contexts like Ukraine present serious risks to the environment and public health. Since February, the conflict has led…

Ukraine Conflict Environmental Briefing: Industry

2022 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

High intensity armed conflicts in heavily industrialised contexts like Ukraine present serious risks to the environment and public health. Since February, the conflict has led…

Russian Attacks on Ukrainian Utility Infrastructure: Water and Power

2022 | Small Wars Journal
Brent Stricker

After withdrawing from much of the territory it occupied in Kharkov Oblast, the Russian military has turned to a new strategy of attacking civilian infrastructure, such…

Environmental Destruction and Armed Conflict: Protecting the Vulnerable through Islamic Law

2022 | Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice
Shebanee Devadasan

Environmental destruction, unfortunately, constitutes a common by-product of armed conflicts. Such destruction ravages the natural environment, and negatively impacts the livelihoods of vulnerable individuals that…

Prosecuting Environmental Harm before the International Criminal Court

2022 | Cambridge University Press
Matthew Gillett

The threat of anthropocentric environmental harm grows more pressing each year. Around the world, human activities are devastating the natural environment and contributing to potentially…

Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts

2022 | Conflict and Environment Observatory and PAX
Doug Weir and Brittany Roser

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused unprecedented public attention on the environmental consequences of armed conflicts. The widespread and massive damage to urban areas, industrial zones,…

The PERAC Legal Framework: Frequently Asked Questions

2022 | Conflict and Environment Observatory
Doug Weir

This autumn, it is expected that governments will adopt a UN General Assembly resolution containing a new normative framework for how the environment should be protected across…

Environmental Fragility in the Sahel

2022 | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Léopold Ghins, Ignacio Madurga-Lopez, and Kazuma Yabe

The Sahel – Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad, also referred to in this paper as the ‘G5 Sahel’ – has become an ‘environmental fragility’ hotspot. In addition to poverty,…

Feminised Concern or Feminist Care? Reclaiming Gender Normativities in Zero Waste Living

2022 | The Sociological Review
Mandy de Wilde and Sarah Parry

Growing awareness of environmental issues and their relation to consumption patterns has given rise to calls for sustainable consumption across the globe. In this article,…

The Impact of War on the Environment and Health: Implications for Readiness, Response, and Recovery in Ukraine

2022 | Lancet
Francesca Racioppi, Harry Rutter, Dorit Nitzan, Anja Borojevic, Zhanat Carr, Tanya Jean Grygaski, Dorota Jarosińska, Sinaia Netanyahu, Oliver Schmoll, Karien Stuetzle, Amber Van Den Akker, and Hans Henri P Kluge

Since the Russian invasion began on Feb 24, 2022, Ukraine has suffered a dramatic escalation of a humanitarian, health, and environmental emergency, spurring the most…

Legacy of War: Pedogenesis Divergence and Heavy Metal Contamination on the WWI Front Line a Century after Battle

2022 | European Journal of Soil Science
Owain H. Williams and Naomi L.J. Rintoul-Hynes

In Europe, the First World War left a legacy on the environment due to the extensive and intense use of artillery during this period. This…

Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk [Video]

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Environment Of Peace provides the most comprehensive account to date of how different aspects of environmental crisis—including climate change, mass extinctions and resource scarcity—are interacting…

A Sustainable Defence? (Episode 2 of "Greening Defence" Podcast) [Audio]

2022 | Royal United Services Institute
Alistair Beard, Linsey Cottrell, Richard Wardlaw, and Howard Lungley

Sustainability can be somewhat of an umbrella phrase, misused to cover a spectrum of climate change related activities. But what does the term mean for…

Nature in The Race to Zero, Part 1: Environment in Time of War [Video]

2022 | EARTHDAY.ORG
Carl Bruch, Kathleen Rogers, Iryna Stavchuk, Stefan Smith, Michael Bothe, and José R. Allen

EARTHDAY.ORG, together with our partners, is proud to present the Earth Day Climate Action Summit. We need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century…

Armed Conflicts and the Environment: Complementing the Laws of Armed Conflicts with Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law

2022 | Springer
Anne Dienelt

The book rethinks the means of harmonization of prima facie norm conflicts in light of the multitude of international agreements across regimes. The methodology deployed in this book, which…