Climate & Environment

War’s Silent Victim: The Environment

Laure Verheyen • May 7 2017 • Essays

Modern conflicts have a high human cost but the environment is often the forgotten victim. Is international law equipped to protect the environment from war?

China’s Cooperation on the Mekong River in the Realm of Complex Interdependence

Max Neugebauer • Dec 4 2016 • Essays

As the most important and powerful upstream country in Asia, China becomes imperative to any cooperation on water-related issues.

Can Liberal Democracies Address Transnational Environmental Problems?

Oana Forestier • Nov 24 2016 • Essays

Liberal-democratic systems will not be capable of addressing contemporary transnational environmental problems unless significant reforms are undertaken.

Has the 2014-2015 Ebola Epidemic in West Africa Been Securitized?

Simon Allcock • Aug 30 2016 • Essays

The sociological approach to securitization is useful for understanding the Liberian and Sierra Leonean governments’ attempts to securitize the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak.

Socio-ecological Security: Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Dualism

Martin Wikören Mogstad • Aug 5 2016 • Essays

Socio-ecological security is a relational and normative concept that sees humans as internal to nature, and seeks to secure sustainable socio-ecological relations.

Assessing the Utility of Rational Choice Theory in Least Developed Countries

George Sariak • Jul 8 2016 • Essays

RCT can inform the understanding behind the decision making process of collective action pertaining to developmental dilemmas specifically common pool resources (CPRs).

Agricultural Overproduction and the Deteriorating Environment

Jacqueline Dufalla • Jul 7 2016 • Essays

Overproducing food, while allowing for food security, also disrupt world markets as well as causes immense environmental damage to soil and water supplies.

Upgrading the United Nations Environmental Programme to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century

Gavin Murphy • May 24 2016 • Essays

Pressure should be increased to create a strong international organisation that harnesses political will and keeps on the path to mitigating the effects of climate change.

An Assessment of Climate Change Imagery in the UK’s Media

Timothy Salinger • Mar 5 2016 • Essays

Visual imagery in communication and news media is an essential contributor to public disengagement with climate change in the UK.

Australian National Security and Climate Change

Melanie Davey • Oct 22 2015 • Essays

Schwartz and Randall’s hypotheses based upon their influential climate change report have missed the mark in predicting the current geo-political climate in Australia

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