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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.
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.
