Environment, Poverty, Conflict, and Peace

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).