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Publications: Extradition, Guantanamo, Information, Kenya, Humanitarian Networks, Natural Disasters, Peace Processes via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Anuario 2008 de procesos de paz (Escola de cultura de pau, April 2008) [Spanish text]
Crisis in Kenya: Land, Displacement and the Search for "Durable Solutions," HPG Policy Brief, no. 31 (ODI, April 2008) [text]
Global Symposium +5 on Information for Humanitarian Action: Final Report (OCHA, May 2008) [text]
Guantánamo's Refugees: Trapped by Inaction (Center for Constitutional Rights, Feb....
The Land, Always the Land via Forest Protection Blog
Land use's relationship to global warming is gaining prominence within climate change policy-making. Oregon is studying how to reduce vehicle miles and thus emissions by reducing urban sprawl [arksearch]. And the biofuel debate rages as food and forests [search] pay a high price from growing and burning plant materials for energy.
It is relatively easy to see how burning fossil fuels causes climate change. What is more inscrutable and often given short thrift is the extent to which the condition of terrestrial ecosystems is coupled to the atmosphere [search]. Humanity is already using nearly half of both the energy captured by plants and the Earth's surface for agriculture. I am certain that a full-accounting of the matter would millenia of human caused land cover changes to be... The Land, Always the Land via Earth Blog
Land use's relationship to global warming is gaining prominence within climate change policy-making. Oregon is studying how to reduce vehicle miles and thus emissions by reducing urban sprawl [arksearch]. And the biofuel debate rages as food and forests [search] pay a high price from growing and burning plant materials for energy.
It is relatively easy to see how burning fossil fuels causes climate change. What is more inscrutable and often given short thrift is the extent to which the condition of terrestrial ecosystems is coupled to the atmosphere [search]. Humanity is already using nearly half of both the energy captured by plants and the Earth's surface for agriculture. I am certain that a full-accounting of the matter would show millenia of human caused land cover changes to be the... New Pubs: Afghan Asylum Seekers, Asylum Decisions, Civilian Protection, Colombia, IDPs/Angola, Jewish Refugees/Denmark, West Africa via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
22nd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Papers [access]
- Papers are available in English and French. The theme of the meeting was "Compounding crises: combinations of vulnerabilities, risks and hazards in West Africa."
Angola: Former IDPs share the common challenge of recovery and reconstruction (IDMC, Dec. 2007) [text via Refworld]
Between war and peace: Land and humanitarian action in Colombia, HPG...