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Study Highlights Lack of Climate-linked Aid to Malawi
Bernard Appiah’s piece, Study Highlights Lack of Climate-linked aid to Malawi, explores the Malawi Geocoded and Climate-Coded Aid Dataset and its potential to facilitate donor coordination. Only one to two percent of aid to Malawi is considered climate aid, according to Kate Weaver and the CCAPS adaptation aid team.
Climate Change and Conflict: Is There Any Correlation?
CCAPS research on the effect of rainfall variability on conflict is highlighted in the Conservation Blog’s article, Climate Change and Conflict: Is There Any Correlation? The article discusses the finding by CCAPS researchers Cullen Hendrix and Idean Salehyan that extreme deviations in rainfall are associated positively with political conflict.
The Strauss Center Announces its 2012-2013 Events Schedule
The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law is pleased to announce its schedule of events for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Center will host renowned scholars, practitioners, and journalists from around the world as part of its acclaimed International Security Speaker Series (ISSS), sponsor conferences on todays most pressing global challenges, and…
Development Data Challenge
Last week’s Development Data Challenge, hosted by the Guardian, examined if and how aid datasets can be used to learn more about international development. The CCAPS program’s geo-coded dataset of aid activities in Malawi, developed in partnership with AidData and the Ministry of Finance of Malawi, was included in the Development Data Challenge and coded…
Strauss Scholar Eugene Gholz Receives Exceptional Public Service Medal
In a ceremony that took place this summer, Strauss Distinguished Scholar Eugene Gholz received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service Medal, one of the highest awards the Secretary of Defense can bestow on a private citizen. The award was presented for the work that Gholz had contributed as a senior advisor…
Predicting How Climate and Politics Affect Stability in Africa
International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW) explores the CCAPS mapping tool that integrates data on conflict, climate vulnerability, and adaptation aid. In his piece “Predicting How Climate and Politics Affect Stability in Africa: Data Mapping the Future of a Continent,” Diego Joaquin Cruz Ramirez provides background on the CCAPS program and explains why the mapping…
Strauss Center Releases New Data on Climate Aid in Africa
The Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program today released the first-ever dataset tracking all climate aid activities in a single country. In the pilot study, CCAPS researchers applied their new “climate coding” methodology to all official development aid projects in Malawi’s Aid Management Platform, assessing each project activity for its relevance…
Strauss Center Director Francis J. Gavin on Hiroshima
Strauss Center Director Francis J. Gavin wrote an essay for the Federation of American Scientists for the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The collection of essays marking this anniversary reflect on the wisdom of nuclear energy and share the authors’ perspectives on nuclear weapons.
Mapping the Future of Climate Change in Africa
In his article Mapping the Future of Climate Change in Africa, Diego Cruz of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) discusses the tools developed by the CCAPS program to help vulnerable populations adapt to climate change and political instability. CCAPS researchers use the high-performance computing resources at TACC to run regional climate model simulations. The…
CCAPS Program Featured on UT Homepage
The University of Texas at Austin’s homepage featured an article on the Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Stability Program (CCAPS) this week. The article highlights the program’s work in Malawi where students were given the opportunity to assist with collecting data from the nations Ministry of Finance on foregin aid. The students were able…
