All Publications by David Michel

• Toxic Brew: Water Quality, Public Health, and Human Welfare in the Indus Basin

  Recurring tensions have long set India and Pakistan at odds over the Indus River system they both share. As the downstream neighbor, Pakistan fears that Indian infrastructure or

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• The Arab Spring and Climate Change

  “The Arab Spring and Climate Change” does not argue that climate change caused the revolutions that have shaken the Arab world over the past two years. But the essays collected in

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• Connecting the Drops: An Indus Basin Roadmap for Cross-Border Water Research and Policy Coordination

  Connecting the Drops: An Indus Basin Roadmap for Cross-Border Water Research, Data Sharing, and Policy Coordination seeks to build mutual understanding between Indian and Pakistani

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• Presidential Inbox 2013: Strengthen Water Security at Home and Abroad

  Click here to view the complete Presidential Inbox series.

  The Challenge:

  Soaring demand, unsustainable consumption patterns, ineffective management, insufficient investment, and

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• Water Challenges and Cooperative Response in the Middle East and North Africa

  Societies across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long balanced the competing water demands of households, industry, and agriculture. Careful management of water

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• Arab Spring Must Also Weather Environmental Threats

  The Arab uprisings mark a watershed moment for the region as it embarks on an era of historic change. Yet the euphoria that first accompanied the popular revolts has yielded to more

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• Acid Test: Global Greenhouse Emissions and Indian Ocean Ecosystems

  This spotlight highlights Chapter 8, "Environmental Pressures in the Indian Ocean," in the newly-published Indian Ocean Rising: Maritime Security and Policy Challenges.

  The Indian

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• Indian Ocean Rising: Maritime Security and Policy Challenges

  The Indian Ocean is rapidly emerging as a key focus of international politics. Its strategic energy reserves and natural resources, the growing importance of its ports and shipping

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• Water Challenges and Cooperative Response in the Middle East and North Africa

  The following working paper on current and future water management challenges and opportunities in North Africa and the Middle East was prepared for the US-Islamic World Forum, held

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• Tempest Tossed: Meeting Environmental Challenges in the Indian Ocean

  Oceans and coastal regions worldwide are coming under increasing environmental pressures. These growing stresses include habitat destruction and biodiversity loss, land-based and

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• Under Pressure: International Water Management Challenges in the Himalayan Region

  Water managers across the Himalayan region will confront a host of overlapping socio-economic, environmental, and policy challenges as they strive to fulfill their societies’ future

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• “East is East and West is West”

  Water managers in the Indus Basin will have to overcome a host of overlapping socio-economic, environmental, and policy pressures as they strive to fulfill their society's future

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• Seismic Shift: Understanding Change in the Middle East

  The momentous events sweeping the Arab world since late 2010 raise important questions about the art and science of analyzing political and societal events. In an age of information

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• Sustaining the Fertile Crescent: Mind the GAP

  Growing populations, soaring demand, mounting environmental pressures, and potentially unsustainable development programs risk imposing untenable burdens on the freshwater resources

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• Cooperation on Emerging Environmental Challenges in the Muslim World

  Scientific, Intellectual, and Governance Cooperation on Emerging Environmental Challenges in the Muslim World provides an overview of the challenges posed by environmental change in

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• Fresh Water Futures

  On 29 January 2010, the Stimson Center, under the sponsorship of the National Intelligence Council and the US State Department, organized a workshop in Washington, DC, focused on the

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• The Deep Blue Sea: Coastal Zones and Climate Change

  Coastal regions are on the front lines of climate change. Global warming's projected impacts on coastal zones include rising sea levels, fiercer tropical cyclones, larger storm

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• Coastal Zones and Climate Change

  Coastal Zones and Climate Change examines the emerging environmental stresses on coastal areas of the Indian Ocean and the resulting challenges confronting coastal planners and

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• India Goes to Copenhagen

  On December 3^rd, as the international community prepared to gather in Copenhagen to hammer out an agreement on global strategies to combat climate change, Jairam Ramesh, the Indian

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• Indian Climate Policy: Choices and Challenges

  In order to negotiate effectively on an international regime for climate change, US policymakers must have an accurate understanding of the constraints and considerations that

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• Geoengineering the Global Climate: Pax Climatica?

  The Obama administration's commitment to re-engage the international community on climate change has kindled hopes that negotiations in Copenhagen later this year can hammer out a

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• Troubled Waters: Climate Change, Hydropolitics, and Transboundary Resources

  Troubled Waters: Climate Change, Hydropolitics, and Transboundary Resources examines the multiple challenges that global climate change raises for the management of shared freshwater

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• Climate Security: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire?

  Public policy makers around the world worry that global warming poses an increasing threat to global security. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, absent

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