Environmental Security

Current Research

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

  Download the full report here. Soaring demand, mounting climate pressures, and unsustainable management patterns increasingly imperil the waters of the Indus River Basin on which some 300

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• Maritime Security and Policy Challenges

  In 2012, the Environmental Security Program released Indian Ocean Rising: Maritime Security and Policy Challenges, a wide-ranging report exploring how the Indian Ocean and South China Sea

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• Global Security and the Urban Future

  

  Over half of all people on earth - some 3.5 billion human beings - now live in cities. By 2050, over six billion people will live in urban areas. Recognizing that sound management of

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• Fresh Water Resources

  Policymakers face a host of overlapping demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental challenges as they strive to fulfill the world's growing water needs. Global climate change threatens

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• Regional Capacity Building and the Global Commons

  Environmental security challenges frequently concern spaces extending beyond the sovereign jurisdiction of nation states, including areas such as the Arctic, the atmosphere, and the

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