Journal ArticleEnergy Research and Social Science · October 1, 2024
To address climate change, countries must decarbonize and shift to renewable energy. Renewables like solar and wind are mineral intensive, meaning the world must rapidly scale up mining and processing of critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt. Such a ...
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Journal ArticleLocal Environment · January 1, 2024
The United Nations has estimated that 2.8 billion individuals across the world will not have access to safely managed sanitation in 2030. In the accounting of global sanitation access, local inequities often are invisible to those counting, especially give ...
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Journal ArticleThe Science of the total environment · January 2023
Installation of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) solar is expected to change the electricity landscape in the U.S. through reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating global warming, as well as eliminating environmental impacts from fossil fuels utilization. ...
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Journal ArticleWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · May 1, 2022
From academics to practitioners, many voices have amplified an increasingly popular narrative posing a climate–conflict–migration nexus. This essay reviews the literature on climate security, exploring the human security impacts of climate change in the Mi ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent History · December 1, 2021
The effects of conflict on public health and ecosystem well-being are understudied and rarely figure in public debates about war-making. Protracted conflicts are particularly damaging to people and environments in ways that are inadequately documented. In ...
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Journal ArticleRisk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · August 2021
Reuse of oilfield-produced water (OPW) for crop irrigation has the potential to make a critical difference in the water budgets of highly productive but drought-stressed agricultural watersheds. This is the first peer-reviewed study to evaluate how trace m ...
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Book · July 14, 2021
The complexities and scope of environmental issues have not only outpaced the capacities and responsiveness of traditional political actors but also generated new innovations, constituencies, and approaches to governing environmental problems. In response, ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Affairs · January 1, 2021
Environmental peacebuilding is a rapidly growing field of research and practice at the intersection of environment, conflict, peace and security. Focusing on these linkages is crucial in a time when the environment is a core issue of international politics ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Research and Social Science · December 1, 2020
This paper examines copy-and-paste regulating in hydraulic fracturing (HF) fluid disclosure regulation across US states. Using text analysis, cluster analysis and document coding, we compare HF regulations of twenty-nine states and two “model bills” drafte ...
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Journal ArticleThe Science of the total environment · September 2020
The consecutive occurrence of drought and reduction in natural water availability over the past several decades requires searching for alternative water sources for the agriculture sector in California. One alternative source to supplement natural waters i ...
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Journal ArticleWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · July 1, 2020
Water and energy are closely linked in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through coupled networks of infrastructure. This review explores the water-energy nexus of infrastructure to explicate different patterns of development and de-development in th ...
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Journal ArticleReview of European Comparative and International Environmental Law · April 1, 2020
In the aftermath of conflict, managing water is critical, as access to water and sanitation is necessary for meeting basic human needs, restoring livelihoods, ensuring food security, rebuilding the economy and promoting reconciliation. This article argues ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of the American Association of Geographers · November 2, 2019
In this article, we evaluate competing environmental knowledge claims in U.S. hydraulic fracturing (HF) regulation. We conduct a case study of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) rule-making process over the period from 2012 to 2015, which was the first ...
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Journal ArticleORYX · July 1, 2019
Human-wildlife interactions affect people's livelihoods, attitudes and tolerance towards wildlife and wildlife reserves. To investigate the effect of such interactions on people's attitudes and livelihoods, we surveyed 2,233 households located around four ...
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Journal ArticleClimate and Development · March 16, 2019
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to have severe impacts on national economies and individual livelihoods, particularly for the world’s poorest populations. Measures to address climate change include both mitigation to reduce emissions and adaptati ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Affairs · March 1, 2019
State and non-state actors across many protracted conflicts and prolonged occupations in the Middle East and North Africa have systematically targeted civilian infrastructures. We use the cases of the West Bank and Gaza, characterized by more than five dec ...
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Journal ArticleReview of International Political Economy · January 2, 2019
Research on socially responsible investing (SRI) and investor-led governance, especially in the climate sector, suggests that shareholders adopt social movement tactics to influence corporate governance, including building networks, engaging directly with ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Research and Social Science · October 1, 2018
Scholars have identified many determinants of regulatory outcomes in unconventional oil and gas development, but few have focused on industry structure. We examine the effects of company size and ownership on revenue sharing outcomes in North Dakota (ND), ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Science and Policy · August 1, 2018
Resource-constrained households are often forced to make complex tradeoffs across multiple environmental health risks. In the Ethiopian Rift Valley, households face tradeoffs between relatively plentiful but fluoride-contaminated groundwater sources and se ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Policy Research · May 1, 2018
Despite calls to increase federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing (HF), the U.S. Congress has maintained a regulatory system in which environmental regulatory authority is devolved to the states. We argue that this system is characterized by a long-stand ...
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Journal ArticleConservation and Society · January 1, 2018
In India, human-wildlife conflict (HWC) around protected areas (PAs) has magnified social conflict over conservation and development priorities. India introduced financial compensation for HWC as a policy solution to simultaneously promote human security w ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Since the 1990s, the environmental security and peacebuilding community has sought to understand the mechanisms by which the environment can produce conflict and foster peace and security. The early literature on environmental security largely emphasized t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Studies and Sciences · December 1, 2017
Can visualization tools and applications help scholars of global environmental politics and governance understand problems that are complex, linked, and cross-scalar—the critical characteristics of contemporary environmental problems? Surprisingly, such to ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Environment and Resources · October 17, 2017
The extraction of unconventional oil and gas-from shale rocks, tight sand, and coalbed formations-is shifting the geographies of fossil fuel production, with complex consequences. Following Jackson et al.'s (1) natural science survey of the environmental c ...
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Journal ArticleSecurity Dialogue · October 1, 2017
Research in conflict studies and environmental security has largely focused on the mechanisms through which the environment and natural resources foster conflict or contribute to peacebuilding. An understudied area of research, however, concerns the ways i ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Policy Research · November 1, 2016
In Canada's Yukon Territory, a legislative committee was tasked with assessing the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing. The committee designed an extensive participatory process involving citizens and experts; however, instead of information access ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Politics · July 3, 2016
ABSTRACT: Plans to replace an aging diesel backup energy plant with liquid natural gas (LNG) generators in Whitehorse, Yukon, resulted in a public outcry, involving community meetings, massive petitions, and demonstrations. Are these civil society protests ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental science & technology · March 2016
Unconventional shale gas development holds promise for reducing the predominant consumption of coal and increasing the utilization of natural gas in China. While China possesses some of the most abundant technically recoverable shale gas resources in the w ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Change · January 1, 2016
Climate change is expected to have particularly severe effects on poor agrarian populations. Rural households in developing countries adapt to the risks and impacts of climate change both individually and collectively. Empirical research has shown that acc ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics · September 24, 2015
Protracted droughts and scarce water resources, combined with internal and cross-border migration, have contributed to the securitization of discourses around migration and water in much of the Middle East. However, there is no clear understanding of the c ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Change · November 1, 2014
Citizen science - public participation of non-scientists in scientific research - has become an important tool for monitoring and evaluating local and global environmental change. Citizen science projects have been shown to enable large-scale data collecti ...
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Journal ArticleSci Total Environ · October 15, 2014
This cross-sectional study explores the relationships between children's F(-) exposure from drinking groundwater and urinary F(-) concentrations, combined with dental fluorosis (DF) in the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) Valley. We examined the DF prevalence and ...
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Journal ArticleSci Total Environ · August 1, 2014
Elevated level of fluoride (F(-)) in drinking water is a well-recognized risk factor of dental fluorosis (DF). While considering optimization of region-specific standards for F(-), it is reasonable, however, to consider how local diet, water sourcing pract ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2014
Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of “water wars,” shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building. Indeed, water management plays a singularly imp ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2014
Water is essential to human health, poverty alleviation, sustainable livelihoods, and food security. Yet 780 million people worldwide still lack access to safe drinking water, and 2.5 billion live without access to basic sanitation (UNICEF and WHO 2012). O ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2014
Water resources play an important and multifaceted role in post-conflict peacebuilding. Immediately after conflict ceases, access to water and sanitation is vital for meeting basic human needs. In the longer term, effective water resource management can pr ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Environment and Resources · October 1, 2013
This review analyzes the methods being used and developed in global environmental governance (GEG), an applied field that employs insights and tools from a variety of disciplines both to understand pressing environmental problems and to determine how to ad ...
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Chapter · 2012
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems. ...
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Journal ArticleWater International · March 1, 2011
Water resources assume a unique and varied role in post-conflict recovery and peace-building. This article examines the ways in which water, sanitation and infrastructure play an integral role in meeting basic human needs, maintaining public health, suppor ...
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Journal ArticleClimatic Change · February 1, 2011
Through an examination of global climate change models combined with hydrological data on deteriorating water quality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), we elucidate the ways in which the MENA countries are vulnerable to climate-induced impacts on ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment and change · January 2011
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is generally considered to be making adequate progress towards meeting Target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which calls for halving the proportion of the population with inadequate access to drinking ...
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Chapter · December 16, 2010
The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health explores this context and addresses both the emerging issues and conceptualizations of the notion of global health, along with expanding upon and highlighting the critical priorities in this ... ...
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Journal ArticleBusiness and Politics · October 28, 2010
Hundreds of "eco-labels" and "social labels" exist for consumer products. These labels claim to provide information about characteristics of these products, which consumers cannot directly observe but which many of them consider desirable, such as low envi ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Politics · September 23, 2010
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, local environmental activism in Central Asia was widespread. While environmental activists had managed to create mutually beneficial alliances with the titular elite during the Soviet period, these alliances disi ...
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Book · August 30, 2010
This 2010 book argues that these outcomes are linked to the ownership structure that petroleum-rich states choose to manage their wealth. ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy Sciences · July 21, 2008
In the United States, the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regulates most groundwater used for drinking water. The Act covers most urban areas but because it does not cover small water systems, it implicitly exempts nearly half of those living in rural Ameri ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Political Science · July 14, 2006
Most political scientists and economists unequivocally accept the proposition that abundant mineral resources are more often a curse than a blessing, particularly for developing countries. We argue that the widely accepted contention that an abundance of m ...
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Journal ArticlePerspectives on Politics · March 1, 2006
Countless studies document the correlation between abundant mineral resources and a series of negative economic and political outcomes, including poor economic performance, unbalanced growth, weakly institutionalized states, and authoritarian regimes acros ...
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Journal ArticleGround water · September 2005
Israel and the Palestinian Authority share the southern Mediterranean coastal aquifer. Long-term overexploitation in the Gaza Strip has resulted in a decreasing water table, accompanied by the degradation of its water quality. Due to high levels of salinit ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Environment · January 1, 2005
In 1998 the European Union (EU) revised its Drinking Water Directive, which is responsible for regulating the quality of water in the EU intended for human consumption. Specifically, the EU added a new standard for the element boron in drinking water (1 mg ...
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Journal ArticleGeotimes · May 1, 2004
Within the past few decades, the water quality in many of the coastal aquifers along the Mediterranean Sea has rapidly degraded. Overexploitation of the groundwater basins, particularly during the tourist season, has resulted in the lowering of groundwater ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · January 1, 2004
The view of institutions as coercion rather than as contracts dominates the comparative politics literature on both institutional creation and the politics of economic reform. The emergence of a collectively optimal tax code in Russia demonstrates the limi ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · 2004
The view of institutions as coercion rather than as contracts dominates the comparative politics literature on both institutional creation and the politics of economic reform. The emergence of a collectively optimal tax code in Russia demonstrates the limi ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Politics · February 2003
A large literature exists regarding explanations for the emergence of
cooperation in the Mediterranean basin, but there is less information
regarding the effectiveness of Mediterranean cooperation and its programs.
Through a case study of Israel's imple ...
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Book · January 2002
A study of the relationship between environmental cooperation and state building in post-Soviet Central Asia. (* Recipient of the 2003 Chadwick Alger Prize of the International Organization Section of the International Studies Association. * Recipient of t ...
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Journal ArticleWater International · January 1, 2002
With the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo Accords) in 1993, the Israelis and Palestinians embarked upon a difficult path to share their joint water resources. Despite international efforts to encourage ...
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Journal ArticleResources Policy · December 1, 2001
Resource-rich states throughout the developing world are prone to rent-seeking, excessive borrowing, wasteful spending, and unbalanced growth as well as states with weak institutions and authoritarian regimes. Are the five energy-rich Soviet successor stat ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environment and Development · January 1, 2001
Following the Soviet Union's collapse, the Central Asian states introduced new institutions for interstate environmental cooperation in the Aral Sea basin. This article examines why Central Asian elites and the international community could not choose the ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Political Studies · January 1, 2001
The literature on resource-rich states leaves a key and prior question unexplored: Why and how do states choose to develop their natural resources? The authors address this gap by explaining the divergence in oil and gas development strategies in five ener ...
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Journal ArticleEurope Asia Studies · November 1, 1999
The promotion of local non-governmental organisations (hereafter LNGOs) in the successor states of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has increasingly become the focus of international democracy-building efforts, orchestrated through the active involvemen ...
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