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Traditional Groundwater Governance in Arid Regions: Institutional Evolution, Marginalization, and Social-Ecological Resilience

2026 | University of Victoria, Department of Geography
Abdul Tawab Balakarzai

As climate induced water scarcity intensifies, global environmental policy responses continue to privilege externalized management paradigms such as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) or Nature-based…

Food as Necropolitics: The Starvation of Palestinian Sovereignty and Stakes of Geopolitical Ecology

2026 | Political Geography
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Malini Ranganathan

This article theorizes the deliberate starvation of Gaza as “food-as-necropolitics” and argues that this forced famine clarifies the analytical stakes of the emerging field of…

Afghanistan: Flash Update #2: Flooding in Eastern Afghanistan (22 to 23 July 2026)

2026 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Heavy rainfall and flash floods have affected communities across several provinces in central, eastern and southeastern Afghanistan. The impacts range from loss of life and…

Water and Habitat in Conflict - 2026 Briefer

2026 | International Committee of the Red Cross

Armed conflicts continue to have devastating consequences on access to water and other essential services. Damage to critical infrastructure disrupts access to safe water, health…

Water as a Weapon: Israel’s Destruction and Deprivation of Water and Sanitation in Gaza

2026 | Médecins Sans Frontières

Israeli authorities have used access to water as a weapon against Palestinians, systematically depriving people in Gaza, Palestine, of water in a campaign of collective…

Water-Energy-Food Nexus Assessment in the Transboundary Harirud River Basin Using the MUSIASEM Framework

2026 | Scientific Reports
Ensie Talaei, Majid Delavar, Yeganeh S. Salehi, Mohammad R. Eini, and Roohollah Noori

Water, food, and energy systems are highly interconnected, and changes in one can have a direct impact on the others. In transboundary basins, these interactions…

Sustainable Asset Valuation of the Recovery of the Bogotá River, Colombia

2026 | International Institute for Sustainable Development
Andrea M. Bassi and Nathalia Niño

This Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) examines how nature-based infrastructure (NBI) interventions like wetland restoration and flood control transformed the Bogotá River basin. The results show…

How the War in Iran Is Reshaping the Energy Landscape

2026 | Nature
Aisha Al-Sarihi

The Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East closed for the first time on 2 March, a few days after the US–Israel strikes on Iran,…

Navigating Climate, Conflict, and Migration: Insights from Ethiopia and the East and Horn of Africa

2025 | International Organization for Migration
Victor Villa, Brenda Chepngetich, Christopher Zapp, and Melissa Branca Carvalho Magalhaes

This report examines the intricate relationship between climate, human security and migration in Ethiopia and the broader East and Horn of Africa region, with the…

Egypt's Choices on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

2025 | E-International Relations
Hamdy A. Hassan

A new chapter in the history of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began with its official inauguration on September 9, 2025. The outlines of…

Association Between Food Insecurity and Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Gendered Asset Policies

2025 | BMJ Global Health
Faith Miller, Jenevieve Mannell, Laura Brown, Andrew Gibbs, and Abigail Hatcher

Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects an estimated 27% of women globally, with consequences spanning mental, physical and societal well-being. Previous research identifies individual and relational…

Impact of the Tigray War on Water Infrastructures and Essential Hydrosystems in Selected Battle Corridors

2025 | Water
Gebremedhin Berhane, Tesfamichael Gebreyohannes, Miruts Hagos, Abdelwassie Huessien, Aregawi Gebrekirstos, Kaleab A. Abera, Thomas Hermans, and Kristine Walraevens

Armed conflicts continue to severely impact human populations and essential infrastructure, particularly water supply systems. This study examines the Yechilla area, a high-intensity battle corridor…

When Bombs Turn the Taps Off: The Impact of Conflict on Water Infrastructure in Lebanon

2025 | Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight, and Oxfam

Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight and Oxfam have worked collectively to document the impact of the escalation of conflict in Lebanon on water infrastructure since…

Ecocide’s Evolving Relationship with War

2025 | Environment and Security
Racheal Killean

This article examines the evolving relationship between ecocide and the regulation of war, tracing its conceptual development from a war crime to a broader environmental…

The Problem of Social Justice in Environmental Peacebuilding: Between Thin and Thick Justice in Liberia

2025 | Environment and Security
Jacobo Grajales, Kou Gbaintor Johnson, and Hueward Neal

Recent research on environmental peacebuilding has encouraged scholars to move away from technocratic definitions of peace and to pay greater attention to how peacebuilding policies…

The Effectiveness of Joint Basin Institutions in Managing International Water Disputes

2025 | Environment and Security
Neda Zawahri, Susanne Schmeier, and Melissa McCracken

While cooperative interaction so far outnumbers conflictive ones between states sharing transboundary water resources, the trend of interstate disputes is on the rise due to…

The Many Voices of Environmental Cooperation: A Relational Analysis of 30 Years of Environmental Peacebuilding over Shared Waters in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine

2025 | Environment and Security
Laura E. R. Peters, Ken Conca, Aaron T. Wolf, Ari Lippi, and Jamon Van Den Hoek

Environmental cooperation is theorized to contribute to peacebuilding, but the complexity of how this linkage is realized for the people involved remains out of view.…

Murky Waters of War: Toward a Clearer Conceptualization of Water as a Weapon

2025 | Environment and Security
Charlotte Grech-Madin

Water has long presented a potent means to harm and influence others in war. All states, and many non-state actors, possess water supply and/or storage…

The Linkages between Water Security, Conflict, Participation, and Governance in Smallholder Irrigation Schemes in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling Approach

2025 | Frontiers
Lerato Phali, Denver Naidoo, and Maxwell Mudhara

The increasing competition for water resources leads to conflict, as utility-maximizing farmers aim to improve their productivity to enhance food security and economic well-being. Conflicts…

Sudan: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk in Sudan, Gender Snapshot

2025 | UN Women
UN Women

This fact sheet, developed by the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group Sudan, highlights key gendered trends from World Food Programme Quarter 1 2025…

Resurgence of Cholera in Kosti City, Sudan: Impact of Armed Conflict and Water Supply Disruption

2025 | IJID Regions
Ayman Azhary, Nooh Mohamed Hajhamed, Ahmed Noralla Altyip, Elham Elamin, Eman Taha Osman Ali, Ayman Ahmed, and Emmanuel Edwar Siddig

This study assesses the magnitude and epidemiological characteristics of the recent cholera resurgence in Kosti City, Sudan, amid ongoing armed conflict and water supply disruptions.

This…

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Resilient Healthcare Systems: Addressing Medicine and Public Health Challenges in Conflict Zones

2025 | Medicine
Chinyere N. Ugwu Meng, Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu, Esther Ugo Alum, Val Hyginus Udoka Eze, Mariam Basajj, Jovita Nnenna Ugwu, Fabian C. Ogenyi Beng, Regina Idu Ejemot-Nwadiaro, Michael Ben Okon MSc, Simeon Ikechukwu Egba, and Daniel Ejim Uti

This review explores the integration of sustainable development goals (SDGs) into healthcare organizations in conflict zones, with a specific focus on emergent models aimed at…