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On the Way to a New Degree: One Security Guy’s Journey to the Hilltop and Back Again
Most people and ideas have an origin story. For Dr. Marcus King, that was a childhood marked by environmental beauty–and scarring–as he watched acid rain’s severe impact on aquatic ecosystems in the lakes of his beloved backyard Adirondack Mountains and received chemical burns from playing in the PCB-contaminated Hudson River. For the new joint Earth Commons and School of Foreign Service (SFS) Masters of Environment and International Affairs (MS-EIA) degree, it was a collaborative vision from Earth Commons Dean Peter Marra and SFS’ Science, Technology, and International Affairs program director Joanna Lewis, brought to life by its new Director, Dr. King.
October 31, 2024
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Voces de Estudiantes, Volume 2: Four Personal Reflections on Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
September 23, 2024
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A famed ornithologist on cats, fed priorities and the ivory-billed woodpecker
November 9, 2023
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Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector
This deeply informed, urgently needed book by Dr. Joanna I. Lewis examines the global cooperation such a monumental effort demands and inspires, necessarily focusing on China’s outsize role in the development and dissemination of clean energy technologies.
July 17, 2023
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Water Weaponization: Its Forms, Its Use in the Russia-Ukraine War, and What to Do About It
This briefer highlights the core elements of water weaponization, and then assess its practice in the Russia-Ukraine war to date.
June 1, 2023
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Drought, lack of access, poor quality … water supplies are in jeopardy across Africa and the Middle East. These same areas are rife with conflicts involving Islamic extremist groups. Marcus King explores linkages between water stress and violent conflict by looking closely at how ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al-Shabaab in Somalia have weaponized water in the pursuit of political ends.
February 27, 2023