In this video ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko discusses environmental management challenges in Central America with Alexander López (Costa Rica), director of the Institute for International Affairs of the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.

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The second day of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security conference in Oslo illustrated the evolution of the environment, conflict, and security debate. The key discussion came from a panel entitled Environmental Change, Conflicts, and Vulnerability in War-Torn Societies that featured Ken Conca of the University of Maryland; David Jensen of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); and Arve Ofstad of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

In this short video, Geoff Dabelko, director of the Wilson Centers Environmental Change and Security Program and chair of the panel, notes that in the last 10 years, researchers and practitioners have moved from a nearly exclusive focus on the connections between environmental scarcity or abundance and conflict to a wider set of questions about environments roles all along the conflict continuum—including prevention, active conflict, conflict termination, and post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction. This wider agenda includes questions of cooperation and peacebuilding around environmental interdependence.

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"Population, Health, and Environment: Exploring the Connections," an original ECSP video, offers a lively, brief, and accessible explanation of population-health-environment connections, with examples and photos from successful programs in the Philippines.

Presenter Lori Hunter of the University of Colorado, Boulder spoke at the Wilson Center earlier this year as part of ECSP's PHE meeting series.

For more information on population, health, and environment, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/phe.

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The following is a video presentation from the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. At a conference in Bangkok, Leona DAgnes discusses the linkages between population, health, and environment in her work as a Technical Adviser for PATH Foundation Philippines.

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"The Terai Arc Landscape has a very high population growth rate; people are very much dependent on the natural resources," says Sabita Thapa in this podcast from the Environmental Change and Security Program.

"We are especially working through the population, health, and environment project to address the issues of forest conversion, forest encroachment, and fuel extraction," explains Thapa.

In this podcast, Thapa, now an environmental advisor with the United Nations Development Programme in the Solomon Islands, and Dhan Rai, senior project manager with World Wildlife Fund-Nepal, discuss WWF's PHE program in Nepal's Terai region.

To learn more about PHE in Nepal, read FOCUS Issue 18, "Forests for the Future: Family Planning in Nepal's Terai Region", at:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/to pics/pubs/Focus_18.pdf

For additional PHE resources, please visit us at:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ph e
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"The GDP of a stateand political instability of a state have a much stronger effect on whether an area will see armed conflict than whether there was degradation or relative or absolute scarcity of a natural resource," says Clionadh Raleigh in this short video preview of her co-authored article "Climate Change, Demography, Environmental Degradation, and Armed Conflict, "
now appearing in the 13th issue of the Environmental Change and Security Program Report.

Research conducted by Raleigh and co-author Henrik Urdal found that population density and growth are related to increased civil conflict, but that demographic and environmental factors are generally outweighed by political and economic ones.

Raleigh, a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, and six other demographic experts analyze the links connecting population and environmental dynamics to conflict in a set of commentaries on "New Directions in Demographic Security."

For more on environment, population, and conflict, read Clionadh Raleigh's article in ECSP Report 13 at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/EC SPReport13.

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More than 150 experts from around the world are assembled this week in Oslo, Norway, for the capstone conference of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) Project. The conference features a mix of researchers and policymakers, who are debating the practical impacts of bringing a focus on people more firmly into discussions of global environmental change.

The Wilson Centers Geoff Dabelko, director of the Environmental Change and Security Program, is attending the conference, and in this video, he comments on three themes prominently discussed in the opening day of the conference: human security versus national security; climate change and migration; and practical avenues for incorporating human security research into the fifth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Simon Dalby, a geographer at Ottawas Carleton University, wants to put the human back into human security with his new book Security and Environmental Change. He is trying to find a common vocabulary to bridge the disparate languages of environmental science and security studies and enable them to mesh in a way that makes intellectual sense. Environmental Change and Security Program Director Geoff Dabelko spoke with Dalby about his book outside the Global Environmental Change and Human Security conference in Oslo, Norway, where more than 160 experts and practitioners have gathered for three days of intense discussions.

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The second day of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security conference in Oslo illustrated the evolution of the environment, conflict, and security debate. The key discussion came from a panel entitled Environmental Change, Conflicts, and Vulnerability in War-Torn Societies that featured Ken Conca of the University of Maryland; David Jensen of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); and Arve Ofstad of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

In this short video, Geoff Dabelko, director of the Wilson Centers Environmental Change and Security Program and chair of the panel, notes that in the last 10 years, researchers and practitioners have moved from a nearly exclusive focus on the connections between environmental scarcity or abundance and conflict to a wider set of questions about environments roles all along the conflict continuum—including prevention, active conflict, conflict termination, and post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction. This wider agenda includes questions of cooperation and peacebuilding around environmental interdependence.

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