Environment and Security Issues

There is a clear, growing awareness among Columbia University faculty and students regarding the linkages connecting climate change, resource degradation and scarcity, poverty, habitat loss, and conflict. This interest is mirrored in high-level scholarly and policy deliberations in the world at large concerning such linkages. This Earth Institute Cross-Cutting Initiative , led by The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), in partnership with the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), aims to make the current round of interest in environment-security issues more meaningful.