Richard A. Matthew
Professor
Departments of Planning, Policy and Design and Political Science
Director
Center for Unconventional Security Affairs
Office: 5546 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Phone: 949.824.9670
E-mail: rmatthew@uci.edu
Richard A. Matthew (BA McGill; PhD Princeton) is Professor of International and Environmental Politics in the Schools of Social Ecology and Social Science at the University of California at Irvine, and founding Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. He studies (a) the environmental dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding; (b) climate change adaptation in conflict and post-conflict societies; and (c) transnational threat systems. He has done extensive field work in conflict zones in South Asia and East, Central and West Africa. In addition to his positions at UCI, he is also the Senior Fellow for Security at the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Geneva; a senior member of the United Nations Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding; and a member of the World Conservation Union's Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy. Dr. Matthew has received Certificates of Recognition for his research and service activities from the U.S. Congress, the California State Legislature and the City of Los Angeles. He has over 130 publications including six books and co-edited volumes.
Selected Publications
Books
Richard A Matthew, Jon Barnett, Bryan McDonald and Karen O'Brien (eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009).
Richard A. Matthew, Bryan McDonald and Ken Rutherford (eds.). War's Hidden Legacy: Human Security and the Mine Ban Treaty (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004).
Richard A. Matthew, Stefan Brem and Ken Rutherford (eds.). Reframing the Agenda (New York: Praeger Press, 2003).
Richard A. Matthew. Dichotomy of Power: Nation Versus State in World Politics. Lexington Books, 2002.
Richard A. Matthew, Mark Halle and Jason Switzer (eds.). Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods and Security (Geneva: IISD, 2002).
Richard A. Matthew (with Dan Duedney, eds.). Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics (Suny Series in International Environmental Policy and Theory), State University of New York Press, 1999.
Articles
Anne Hammill and Richard Matthew. "Peacebuilding and Climate Change Adaptation." St Antony's International Review (STAIR) (vol. 5, no. 2, February 2010).
Richard A. Matthew and Anne Hammill. "Sustainable development and climate change." International Affairs Vol. 85 No. 6 (2009): 1117-1128.
Anne Hammill, Richard Matthew and Elissa McCarter. "Microfinance and Climate Change Adaptation." IDS Bulletin Volume 39 Number 4 September 2008.
Richard A. Matthew, Bryan McDonald and George Shambaugh. (2008). "Post-9/11 America: Conventional Wisdom Versus Popular Pragmatism." Democracy & Society, Vol. 5 No. 2 (Spring 2008).
Richard A. Matthew and Anne Hammill. "Surviving in a Changing World: Environment, Security and Microfinance." The Green Cross Optimist, Summer 2006.
Richard A. Matthew and Bishnu Raj Upreti. "Environmental Stress and Demographic Change in Nepal: Underlying Conditions Contributing to a Decade of Insurgency." Environmental Change and Security Project Report 11 (2006).
Richard A. Matthew and Bryan McDonald. "Cities Under Siege: Urban Planning and the Threat of Infectious Disease." Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) Vol. 72 No. 1 (Winter 2006): 109-117.
Richard A. Matthew and George Shambaugh. "The Limits of Terrorism: A Network Perspective." International Studies Review Vol. 7 No 4 (December 2005).
Richard A. Matthew and George Shambaugh. "The Pendulum Effect: Explaining Shifts in the Democratic Response to Terrorism." ASAP: Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Vol. 5 No. 1 (2005).
Richard A. Matthew and Bryan McDonald. "Networks of Threat and Vulnerability: Lessons from Environmental Security Research." Environmental Change and Security Project Report 10 (2004).
Richard A. Matthew, Michael Brklacich and Bryan McDonald. "Analyzing Environment, Conflict and Cooperation," in Understanding Environment, Conflict and Cooperation (United Nations Environment Program and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2004).
Mike Brklacich, Richard Matthew, Bryan McDonald and Bishnu Upreti. "Advancing Conflict, Cooperation and Environmental Change - Human Security Research." IHDP Update 03 (2004).
Richard A. Matthew, Ted Gaulin and Bryan McDonald. "The Elusive Quest: Linking Environmental Change and Conflict." Canadian Journal of Political Science (September 2003).
Richard A. Matthew and Ted Gaulin. 2003. "Time to Sign the Mine Ban Treaty." Issues in Science and Technology Vol. 19 No. 3 (Spring 2003).
Richard A. Matthew. and Ted Gaulin. 2002. "The Ecology of Peace."Peace Review 14 (1).
Richard A. Matthew and Ted Gaulin. 2001. "Conflict or Cooperation? The Social and Political Impacts of Resource Scarcity on Small Island States." Global Environmental Politics 1 (2).
Richard A. Matthew "Environmental Stress and Human Security in Northern Pakistan." Environmental Change and Security Project Report 7, Summer 2001.
Richard A. Matthew. "The Environment as a National Security Issue," Journal of Policy History 12 (1).
Richard A. Matthew. "The Greening of American Foreign Policy" Issues in Science and Technology 13 (1).
Book Chapters
Richard A. Matthew, Jon Barnett, and Karen L. O'Brien. "Global Environmental Change and Human Security: An Introduction," in Richard A. Matthew, Jon Barnett, Bryan McDonald and Karen L. O'Brien (eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009).
Richard A. Matthew, Jon Barnett, and Karen L. O'Brien. "Charting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Change and Human Security Research," in Richard A. Matthew, Jon Barnett, Bryan McDonald and Karen L. O'Brien (eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009).
Richard A. Matthew. "Environmental Security," in Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft (eds.), Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century, 7th Edition (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2009).
Richard A. Matthew and Bryan McDonald. "Environmental Security: Academic and Policy Debates in North America."In Hans Gunter Brauch, et al (eds.), Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts (Peace Research and European Security Studies Press, 2009).
Richard A. Matthew, Bryan McDonald and Heather Goldsworthy. "Environmental Ethics," in Antonio Franceschet (ed.) The Ethics of Global Governance (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2009).
Roxane Cohen Silver and Richard A. Matthew (2008). "Terrorism." In V. N. Parrillo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Jon Barnett, Richard A. Matthew and Karen O'Brien. "Global Environmental Change and Human Security." In Brauch, H.G. (ed), Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace , Vol. 3. Springer, 2008.
Richard A. Matthew, "Climate Change and Human Security." in Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela M. Doughman (Eds.), Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007).
Other Publications
Anne Hammill, Alec Crawford, Robert Craig, Robert Malpas, Richard Matthew. Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Practitioners' Manual. IISD, 2009.
Richard A. Matthew, et. al. "From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment."(Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme, 2009).
Richard A. Matthew. "Resource Scarcity: Responding to the Security Challenge." International Peace Institute, April 2008.