The environment knows no borders.
Nowhere is the interconnectedness of our world more apparent than in the environment. Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, deforestation, pollution and the endangerment of rare plants and animals impact our health, our movement, and our economy.
In addition, developing countries, whose populations already struggle to provide for themselves and their families, will suffer the impact of environmental deterioration first and hardest.
Click on any of the links below to learn more about the relationship between foreign assistance, diplomacy, and the environment. Please note: we're still adding to this section!
Articles:
A Planet Unfree
Author: Aaron Sachs
Sachs of the Sierra Club says environmental protection has everything to do with human rights.
Link to Full Article
Aid Agencies’ warning on climate
Author: Alex Kirby
Kirby reports on a study by the Working Group on Climate Change and Development that says the greenhouse effect could wreck attempts to life the world’s poorest people out of poverty and reverse human progress.
Link to Full Article
Environmental Refugees: A Growing Phenomenon of the 21st Century
Author: Norman Myers
Learn more about the issues and future of people who are refugees due to drought, soil erosion, desertification, deforestation, and other environmental problems, which count for over 25 million of the worldwide refugee population.
Link to JSTOR (password required)
Guest Editorial: Environmental Health in Developing Countries: An Overview of the Problems and Capacities
Author: Hiremagalur N. B. Gopalan
Gopalan provides a foundation on the connections between human and environmental health and those most affected by lapses in both.
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The Links between Poverty and the Environment in Urban Areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Author: David Satterthwaite
Satterthwaite shows strong evidence that urban environmental hazards are major contributors to urban poverty.
Link to JSTOR (password required)
Sustainable Development: Empowering Indigenous Peoples
Author: Rebecca Kessler
Kessler describes how environmental organizations are joining with Indigenous groups to incorporate sustainable environmental practices with development growth.
Terror in the Weather Forecast
Author: Thomas Homer-Dixon
Dixon of the New York times writes on Britain speaking at the United Nations Security Council about climate change and its threat to international peace and security, and how skeptics like China, India, and Russia are denying the accumulating evidence.
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Books:
Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
Authors: Joseph F. C. DiMento, Pamela M. Doughman
Link to MIT Press
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
Link to Princeton Press | Link to Author's Homepage
Envisioning a sustainable Development Agenda for Trade and Environment
Authors: Adil Najam, Mark Halle, and Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz
Link to Publisher's site | Link to Tufts University site
Global Sustainable Development
Authors: Keekok Lee, Alan Holland, and Desmond McNeil
Link to Columbia University Press
Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World
Author: William M. Adams
Link to Amazon
The Health of Nations: Infectious Disease, Environmental Change, and Their Effects on National Security and Development
Author: Andrew T. Price-Smith
Link to MIT Press
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy
Author: Jack M. Hollander
Link to UC Press
Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice
Author: David Naguib Pellow
Link to MIT Press
Stumbling Toward Sustainability
Author: John C. Dernbach
Link to Amazon | Link to Widener University School of Law
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Author: Marq de Villiers
Link to Amazon | Link to WFNS site
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
Author: Vandana Shiva
Link to Author's Homepage | Link to Interview
Organizations:
The Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program
The goal of the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program is to provide the leadership and a neutral forum for improving policy making through intentional value-based dialogue in the areas of energy and environmental policies.
The Center for International Environmental Law
The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a nonprofit organization working to use international law and institutions to protect the environment, promote human health, and ensure a just and sustainable society. It provides a wide range of services including legal counsel, policy research, analysis, advocacy, education, training, and capacity building.
EarthRights International
ERI is an organization of activists and lawyers with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate and government accountability, with offices in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. They document human rights and environmental abuses and organize campaigns and litigate to advocate for human rights around the world. They teach people about their earth rights, especially people living under repressive regimes. They train villagers and refugee women to testify at the United Nations and other international agencies, and run schools for activists in Southeast Asia and in the Amazon.
The Environment: A Global Challenge
The Environment: A Global Challenge covers every aspect of the environment, including its relationship with economics, human rights, and politics. It provides interactive features and is ideal for educational use.
Environment and Human Rights Resources
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) provides this resource site through its science and human rights program. It is part of the Environment and Human Rights Project, it works to promote the incorporation of environmental factors in the understanding of human rights and improve utilization within the environmental community of the fundamentals of human rights.
Environmental Investigation Agency
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an independent, international, non-profit organization committed to promoting environmental conservation by investigating and exposing environmental crimes around the world, and then working to stop these crimes.
Hewlett Program: Environment
The program has three goals: to save the great ecosystems of the North American West; to reduce the environmental impacts of fossil-fuel energy systems by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; and to build an infrastructure for environmental concerns among California's growing but still underrepresented populations in the L.A. basin and the Central Valley.
Rockefeller Foundation – Climate Change
The Rockefeller Foundation Climate Change Initiative would catalyze attention, funding, and action in building climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people globally by: creating robust action models of climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people; funding, promoting, and disseminating those models; and increasing pressure on funders, practitioners, and policy-makers to support increased funding and action for climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people.
Sierra Club: International Issues
Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself. The oldest grassroots environmental organization in the United States, the Sierra Club has campaigns on global population, responsible trade, and human rights and the environment.
United Nations Foundation—Environment Program
The UN Foundation works with the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, governments, and corporations to mobilize resources to protect biodiversity, foster sustainable development, and prevent the dangers of climate change.
USAID: Environment
The natural resources available to people for food and other production, maintaining healthy lives, and the pleasure of a beautiful landscape — perhaps filled with wild animals -- can seem boundless. But growing populations are placing increasing pressure on the resources in many countries and many of these resources, once used, are not renewable. USAID takes an integrated approach to natural resources management.
Winrock
Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment.
World Bank: Environment
Since 2001, the World Bank has endorsed an environmental strategy to improve sustainable development and environmental protection in its actions to reduce poverty. This includes a focus on the effects climate change will have on the developing world, biodiversity, and water resources management.
World Environment Center
The World Environment Center is an independent, not-for-profit, non-advocacy organization that advances sustainable development and social responsibility, encourages environmental leadership, and helps improve environmental, health and safety practices worldwide.
World Health Organisation - Protection of the Human Environment
The World Health Organisation has a department that works to assist its Member States and their populations in achieving a sustainable basis for health for all by ensuring an environment that promotes health, and by making individuals and organizations aware of their responsibility for health and its environmental basis. WHO believes that safe environments are directly linked to a sustainable basis for human health.
World Resources Institute
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives. WRI’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth's environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
World Wildlife Fund
WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by: conserving the world's biological diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable and; promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
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