Climate Change and Natural Resources Archive
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The Last Drop: Water as a Cause of Conflict?
Posted on March 20, 2014Global environmental change is increasingly challenging our surroundings. Through destructive weather events, water scarcity, food shortages and natural resource competition, we are being forced to alter our daily lives and ... -
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The International Securitization of Climate Change: Success or Hot Air?
Posted on August 21, 2013With the increasing severity of climate change and its associated impacts, and the political stalemate that is characteristic of international climate negotiations, a range of alternative attempts to mobilise political ... -
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Kirchner, Megaphone ‘Diplomacy’, and The Falklands
Posted on January 15, 2013An Unsolved Problem Last year Argentine President Christina Kirchner publicly argued for a reassessment of who should control The Falkland Islands. Bizarrely, Hollywood actor Sean Penn felt the need ... -
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Goma has fallen: M23, North Kivu and why Rwanda’s donors might hold the key to peace
Posted on November 22, 2012Goma, the capital of the resource-rich North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, is now in the hands of M23 – a rebel group accused of ... -
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The Arctic Gold Rush: How Global Warming can lead to increased global energy security
Posted on November 13, 2012At the end of August, NASA delivered a statement, later confirmed by the American National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), as well as the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), in ...