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Global Trends 2030 Features Strauss Center Scholars
This week, Strauss Center Scholar William Inboden is the guest editor for the National Intelligence Council’s “Global Trends 2030″ blog. The theme to be discussed this week is “American decline” and Inboden will be featuring blog posts by many Strauss Center Scholars during the week. Already featured is Strauss Center Director Francis J. Gavin’s post…
Innovative Climate Change Research Program Offers Students Opportunity for Field Work in Africa
(Kerri Battles, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs) Christian Peratsakis came to the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin in 2010 to take part in ground-breaking research into how climate change affects political stability in Africa. “This research has completely changed my experience and my focus in development,”…
Sustainability Begins with Power in Malawi
(Lisa Friedman, E&E reporter) The United States has flipped the switch on a $350 million power project to light up one of Africa’s poorest countries.The aid to Malawi from the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), a congressionally funded development institution, was reinstated this month after a suspension sparked by concerns over human rights violations and violent…
Visualizing Complex Vulnerability in Africa
Version 2.0 of the CCAPS mapping tool is featured in Lauren Herzer’s piece, Visualizing Complex Vulnerability in Africa: The CCAPS Climate-Conflict Mapping Tool, on the New Security Beat. The blog highlights CCAPS as a collaborative research program and describes the dynamic tool as a valuable resource for researchers to examine the intersection of environmental, social,…
Hydraulic Fracturing Article Features Luke Metzger, Fellow and Director of Environment Texas
Luke Metzger, Next Generation Project Texas Fellow and Director of Environment Texas, was quoted in an article that discussed a Texas House hearing about energy and natural resources.
Climate Projections for Africa
CCAPS researchers Kerry Cook and Ned Vizy have designed and run mid-century climate projection simulations for Africa. The climate projections are generated using a regional climate model focused on Africa, allowing the researchers to optimize the model to be more accurate for the African continent than current global models and to produce projections at higher…
William Inboden Analyzes “Six Chinas” on Shadow Government
Strauss Distinguished Scholar William Inboden recently returned from a trip to China with many different impressions of its state of affairs. He discusses six of them in a post for the Foreign Policy blog Shadow Government; Rising Power, Security Threat, Economic Dynamo, Fragile Kleptocracy, Reforming Autocracy, and Insecure Bully.
CCAPS Publishes Working Paper on Spatial Vulnerability
The CCAPS program released a working paper by Dr. Ignatius A. Madu on the Spatial Vulnerability of Rural Households to Climate Change in Nigeria. Dr. Madu’s paper was produced as part of the CCAPS program’s Call for Papers on environmental security, which was open exclusively to scholars from and based in Africa.
