Alexander Carius, Managing Director at Adelphi Research, discusses the state of the climate change and security debate in a European context with Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) Director Geoff Dabelko. The interview is available at the ECSPWWC channel on YouTube, which regularly features videos from discussions and interviews on environmental security and peacebuilding. The channel is maintained by ECSP, which is part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.



In response to the UN resolution and the request of the Member States in the UN General Assembly, the Secretary-General report (A/64/350) on "Climate Change and Its Possible Security Implications" has been prepared. The report and all materials, including a power point presentation, related to the preparation of the report are now available online.

The Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS) has published the book "Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts". The handbook's 100 chapters address in ten parts issues of water, food, and energy, as well as gender security. It also contains a chapter on action and policy outlook. The book launch is now fully documented online.

Another book, edited by renowned researchers in the field of environmental security, is titled "Global Environmental Change and Human Security". It discusses the connections of global environmental change to urban poverty, natural disasters, violent conflict, population, gender, and sustainable development and cooperation including case studies from Hurricane Katrina and the civil war in Nepal. 

Published in: ECC-Newsletter, October 2009