Environmental Change and Security Program


The Environmental Change and Security Program is one of several programs and projects that make up the Global Resilience and Sustainability Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. ECSP was founded in 1994 to study the connections among environmental, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.

Activities

ECSP holds events and publishes research and multimedia content with the aim of connecting scholars, policymakers, the media, and practitioners. The program currently has three primary topical focus areas:
  1. Integrated Development: The intersection of population-health-environment issues in developing countries as well as global population dynamics such as urbanization, youth bulges, and migration.
  2. Environment, Conflict, and Security: The role of natural resources in conflict and peacebuilding, and climate change in the security context.
  3. Water: Water's potential to spur conflict and cooperation, its social and economic value, and its relationship to health and disease.

    Publications

ECSP produces a as well as the of short briefs on integrated population, health, and environment programs. Previous occasional publications include ' and '. The program also maintains a daily blog, , and a with speaker interviews.

Support

ECSP is supported by grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development, under the and the .

Staff