About:
This research area studies the linkages among natural resources, conflict, and peacebuilding.
Projects:
- Natural Resource Management, Conflict and Peacebuilding (2007- )
- Partners: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
- Conflict Sensitive Conservation (2006-2009)
- Partners: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Conservation Development Center (CDC).
Presentations:
- “Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding,”
- TEDx Event, Segerstrom Hall, USA (2011).
- “Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding,”
- Macarthur Foundation, Chicago. (2010).
- “Energy, Conflict and Security,”
- University of San Diego, San Diego. (2009).
- “Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding,”
- The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam. (2009).
- “Environment, Natural Resources and Security,”
- Duke University Geneva Program, Geneva. (2009).
- “Natural Resources, Conflict and Peacebuilding,”
- University of Warwicke. (2009).
- “Environment and Conflict,”
- World Conservation Congress, Barcelona. (2008).
- “Environment and Peacebuilding,”
- World Conservation Congress. (2008).
- “Environment, Conflict and Peace,”
- Government of Rwanda, Kigali. (2008).
- “Security, Development and the Environment,”
- International Peace Academy, New York. (2008).
- “Integrating the Environment into the Peacebuilding Agenda: Rationale and Evidence,”
- UNEP, the Peacebuilding Commission and General Assembly members, New York. (May 2008).
- “Integrating the Environment into the Peacebuilding Agenda: Rationale and Evidence,”
- UNEP and the Peacebuilding Commission, New York. (February 2008).
- “Microfinance, Human Security and Sustainable Development,”
- Challenges to the Welfare State, UC San Diego. (September 2007).
- “Globalization and the Environment,”
- Fred J. Hansen Distinguished Lecture Series, San Diego State University. (September 2007).
- “Nepal, Water and Political Change,”
- Nepal Water Security Forum, Central Asia/Caucasaus Institute/Silk Roads Program, Uppsala University, Sweden. (September 2007).
- “Stability, Security and Development,”
- at “Using Sustainability to Build Stability in Africa”, Special AFRICOM Closed Session on US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks. (September 2007).
- “Environmental Challenges of War-torn Societies: Linking Peace Building, Sustainability and Human Security,”
- Duke University. (2006).
- “Environmental Stress and Demographic Change: Underlying Conditions and Nepal’s Instability,”
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, DC. (2006).
- “Environment, Security and Sustainable Development,”
- Taking Security and Development Seriously: An Agenda for Policy Reform, United Nations’ International Peace Academy, New York. (2006).
- “The Roots of Violence: Environmental Change, Poverty and Corruption in Northern Pakistan,”
- Princeton Club of Orange County. (2006).
- “Livelihoods, Resource Rights and Conflict in South Asia,”
- World Conservation Congress, Bangkok, Thailand. (2004).
- “Resource Rights,”
- Livelihoods and Conflict, IUCN Nepal. (July 2003).
- “Global Environmental Change and Human Security’ to Russian Science Group.”
- Moscow, Russia (November 2002).
- “Conserving the Peace and Environmental Conflict in Pakistan,”
- World Summit on Environment and Development, Johannesburg. (September 2002).
- “Environmental Security and Insurance,”
- UNEP Finance Meeting, Rio. (March 2002).
- “Environmental Change,”
- Conflict and Business, Loccum. (November 2001).
- “Environmental Stress and Conflict in South Asia,”
- IHDP Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (October 2001).
- “Adaptation to Environmental Change,”
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA. (May 2001).
Publications:
- Barnett, J., Matthew, R., & O’Brien, K. (2007). Global Environmental Change and Human Security.
- In H. G.Brauch et al. (Eds.), Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century (pp. 355-362). Berlin: Springer.
- Basolo, V. (2009). Environmental Change, Disasters, and Vulnerability: The Case of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans.
- In R. Matthew, J. Barnett, B. L. McDonald, & K. O’Brien (Eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security (pp. 97-116). Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Brklacich, M., Matthew, R., & McDonald, B. (2004). Analyzing Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation.
- In United Nations Environment Programme. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Program. 5-15.
- Brklacich, M., Matthew, R. A., McDonald, B., Upreti, B. (2004). Advancing Conflict, Co-operation and Environmental Change: Human Security Research.
- IHDP Update, 11-12.
- Brooke, R. & Matthew, R. (2013). Post-conflict Environmental Governance in Post-Conflict Situations: Lessons from Rwanda.
- In C. Bruch, W. C. Muffett, & S. Nichols (Eds.), Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. London: Earthscan.
- Dabelko, G. & Matthew, R. (2002). The Last Pocket of Resistance: Environment and Security in the Classroom.
- In M. Maniates (Ed.), Encountering Global Environmental Politics: Teaching, Learning, and Empowering Knowledge (pp. 107-128). New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- Deudney, D. & Matthew, R. (Eds.). (1999). Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics.
- Albany: SUNY Press.
- Floyd, R. & Matthew, R. A. (Eds.). (2013). Environmental Security: Approaches and Issues.
- Oxford: Routledge.
- Floyd, R., & Matthew, R. A. (2013). An Introduction
- In R. Floyd & R. A. Matthew (Eds.), Environmental Security: Approaches and Issues. Oxford: Routledge.
- Gaulin, T., Matthew, R., & McDonald, B. (2003). Elusive Quest: Linking Environmental Change and Conflict.
- Canadian Journal of Political Science, 857-878.
- Gaulin, T. & Matthew, R. (2002). The Ecology of Peace.
- Peace Review, 14(1), 33-40.
- Gaulin, T., Matthew, R., & McDonald, B. (2001). Conflict or Cooperation? The Social and Political Impacts of Resource Scarcity in Small Island States.
- Global Environmental Politics, 1(2), 48-70.
- Halle, M., Matthew, R. A., & Switzer, J. (2002). Introduction.
- In M. Halle, R. A. Matthew, & J. Switzer (Eds.), Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods and Security (pp. 1-28). Geneva and Winnipeg: IISD Press.
- Hammill, A., Crawford, A., Craig, R., Malpas, R., & Matthew, R. (2009). Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Practitioners’ Manual.
- International Institute for Sustainable Development. Winnipeg: IISD Press.
- Hammill, A., & Matthew, R. (2007). Resource Rights and Conflict in South Asia.
- Peace Review, 19(1).
- Hammill, A. & Matthew, R. (2006). Surviving in a Changing World: Environment, Security and Microfinance.
- The Green Cross Optimist.
- Khan, S. R. , Bokhari, S., & Matthew, R. (2006). Livelihoods, Security and Conflict: Dir Kohistan, Pakistan.
- In P. Moore (Ed.), International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
- Khan, S. R., Kumar, K., & Matthew, R. (2005). Livelihoods, Environment and Conflict in Forested Areas in Dir-Kohistan, Pakistan and Koraput, India.
- Forests and Conflicts, Special Issue of European Tropical Forest Research Network News, 43-44, 86-88.
- Matthew, R. A., & Hammill, A. (2013). Peacebuilding and Adaptation to Climate Change.
- In D. Jensen & S. Lonergan (Eds.), Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. London: Earthscan.
- Matthew, R. (2012). Environmental Change, Human Security and Regional Governance: The Case of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Region.
- Global Environmental Politics. 12(3); 100-118.
- Matthew, R. (2012). Environmental Security.
- In N. Vig & M. Kraft (Eds.), Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century 8th Edition. (pp. 327-348). Washington: CQ Press.
- Matthew, R. (2012). Environmental Security and US Politics.
- In M. Kraft & S. Kamienicki (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Matthew, R. (2011). Regional Dynamics of Environment and Security in Post-Conflict States.
- Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, 14(2011), 28-30.
- Matthew, R. (2010). Environment, Conflict and Sustainable Development.
- In N. Tschirgi, M. S. Lund, & F. Mancini (Eds.), Security and Development: Searching for Critical Connections. (pp. 47-76). Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
- Matthew, R., Sexton, R., Beevers, M., Jensen, D., van Eeden, M., & Mann, H. (2010). Sierra Leone: Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding Assessment.
- United Nations Environment Programme.
- Matthew, R. (2010). Guest Essay: Foundations for a Better Future: Sustainability for Everyone.
- International Institute for Sustainable Development.
- Matthew, R., Barnett, J., McDonald, B., & O’Brien, K. (Eds.). (2009). Global Environmental Change and Human Security.
- Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Matthew, R. A., Barnett, J., O’Brien, K. (2009). Global Environmental Change and Human Security: An Introduction.
- In R. A. Matthew, J. Barnett, B. McDonald, & K. L. O’Brien (Eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security (3-32). Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Matthew, R. A., Barnett, J., & O’Brien, K. (2009). Charting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Change and Human Security Research.
- In R. A. Matthew, J. Barnett, B. McDonald, & K. L. O’Brien (Eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security (pp. 307-315). Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Matthew, R. A., Goldsworthy, H., & McDonald, B. (2009). Environmental Ethics.
- In A. Franceschet (Ed.), The Ethics of Global Governance (pp. 141-157). Lynne Reinner Press.
- Matthew, R. & McDonald, B. (2009). Environmental Security: Academic and Policy Debates in North America.
- In H. G. Brauch et al. (Eds.), Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food and Water Security Concepts (pp. 791-802). Berlin: Springer.
- Matthew, R., Sexton, R., Mann, H., & van Eeden, M. (2009). UNEP Mission Report: Peacebuilding and Environmental Management Issues Relating to Natural Resources in Sierra Leone.
- United Nations Environment Programme.
- Matthew, R. A., & United Nations. (2009). Summary Report of Natural Resources, Post‐Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone.
- Matthew, R. A. & Upreti, B. (2009). Environmental Change and Human Security in Nepal.
- In R. A. Matthew, J. Barnett, B. McDonald, & K. L. O’Brien (Eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security (pp. 13-154). Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Matthew, R. & Upreti, B. R. (2007). Environmental Stress and Demographic Change in Nepal: Underlying Conditions Contributing to a Decade of Insurgency.
- Environmental Change and Security Project Report, 11, 29-39. (The issue this article appeared in and won the 2007 Global Media Award for Excellence in Population Reporting).
- Matthew, R. (2005). Man, the State and Nature: Rethinking Environmental Security.
- In P. Dauvergne (Ed.), Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (pp. 127-148). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Matthew, R. (2005). Sustainable Livelihoods, Environmental Security and Conflict Mitigation: Four Cases in South Asia.
- In G. Oviedo & P. van Griethuysen (Eds.), Poverty, Equity and Rights in Conservation (pp. 67-70). Gland: IUCN.
- Matthew, R. & McDonald, B. (2004). Networks of Threat and Vulnerability: Lessons from Environmental Security Research.
- Environmental Change and Security Project Report, 10, 36-42.
- Matthew, R. (2002). Environment, Population and Conflict: New Modalities of Threat and Vulnerability in South Asia.
- Journal of International Affairs, 56(1), 235-254.
- Matthew, R. (2002). In Defense of Environment and Security Research.
- Environmental Change and Security Project Report, 8, 109-124.
- Matthew, R. A. (2002). Human security and the environment: the North American perspective.
- In E. Page & M. Redclift (Eds.), Human Security and the Environment (pp. 199-223). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Matthew, R. A. & Fraser, L. (2002). Global Environmental Change and Human Security: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues.
- Global Environmental Change and Human Security Program Office, University of California, Irvine.
- Matthew, R., Halle, M., & Switzer, J. (2002). Conclusion.
- In M. Halle, R. A. Matthew, & J. Switzer (Eds.), Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods, and Security (pp. 385-404). Geneva and Winnipeg: IISD Press.
- Matthew, R. A. & Zaidi, A. (2002). People, Scarcity and Violence in Pakistan.
- M. Halle, R. A. Matthew, & J. Switzer (Eds.), Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods and Security (pp. 57-98). Geneva and Winnipeg: IISD Press.
- Matthew, R. (2001). Environment and Conflict in Northern Pakistan.
- Environmental Change and Security Project Report, 7, 21-35.
- Matthew, R. (2001). Environmental Stress and Human Security in Northern Pakistan.
- Global Environmental Change and Human Security Programme.
- Matthew, R. (2000). The Environment as a National Security Issue.
- Journal of Policy History. 12(1), 101-102.
- Matthew, R. A. (2000). Social Responses to Environmental Change.
- In S. Lonergan (Ed.), Environmental Change, Adaptation, and Security. Springer Press.
- McLarty, D., Davis, N., Gellers, J., Nasrollahi, N., & Altenbernd, E. (2014). Sisters in Sustainability: Municipal Partnerships for Social, Environmental, and Economic Growth.
- Sustainability Science. 9, 277-292.
- O’Brien, K., Barnett, J., De Soysa, I.,Matthew, R., Metha, L., Seager, J., Woodrow, M., & Bohle, H. G. (2005). Hurricane Katrina Reveals Challenges to Human Security.
- Global Environmental Change and Human Security Programme.
- United Nations Environment Programme. (2011). Rwanda: From Post-Conflict to Environmentally Sustainable Development.
- Geneva: United Nations Environment Programme.
- United Nations Environment Programme. (2009). From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources.
- United Nations Environment Programme.
- Wapner, P. & Matthew, R. (2009). The Humanity of Global Environmental Ethics.
- Journal of Environment and Development, 18(2), 203-222. (Article translated into Vietnamese by the Journal Donation Project at The New School, 2009).