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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.
Understanding How to Bolster the Security of Vulnerable Populations
In the summer issue of ArcUser, Esri writer Karen Richardson explores how CCAPS is using GIS to better learn how climate change, conflict, and aid intersect. Richardson’s article, Understanding How to Bolster the Security of Vulnerable Populations, provides an overview of CCAPS and how the collaborative research program’s mapping tool allows users to visualize data while…
Strauss Scholar Jeremi Suri on Public University Reform
Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs Jeremi Suri wrote for CNN last week on public universities.
Strauss Scholar Kuperman Quoted on Nuclear Nonproliferation
Professor Alan Kuperman, a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar, was quoted in an article from the Global Security Newswire on Monday. The article responds to a new policy announced by the Obama administration last week that promotes the purchase of medical isotopes manufactured with proliferation-resistant nuclear material.
Director Francis J. Gavin in the Carnegie Reporter
Strauss Center Director Francis J. Gavin and Syracuse University’s James B. Steinberg were published in the Spring 2012 edition of the Carnegie Reporter. Their piece, “Mind the Gap; Why Policymakers And Scholars Ignore Each Other, And What Should Be Done About It,” addresses the important issue of connecting academic knowledge with the policymaking process.
