Working with a great new group of students this fall! Having fun at a Teas of the World event, part of the launch of Ohio University's new School of International Studies & Languages. Interesting research in the works: aging & climate resilience, climate & mobility, and environmental peacebuilding.

More on extreme weather events and risk communication in Central Appalachia. Challenging new realities on many fronts not making it easier despite better understanding. Great team of researchers & students engaging with public health & emergency response partners www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09...

On this International Day of Peace, questions persist on peace and conflict connections to climate. Unfortunately the stakes will grow as more impacts felt and more responses (good, bad & ugly) play out. Ken Conca & I make case for wider lens than typical journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Big news the state of Ohio officially becomes an Age-Friendly state. Joining 36 Age-Friendly Communities already here in Ohio. Opportunity for our Grey-Green Alliance focus on aging, sustainability & resilience as we have done in Athens, Columbus & Cleveland aging.ohio.gov/see-news-and...

Grisly but important reminder that environment & conflict links are often targeted assassinations of specific individuals apnews.com/article/envi...

Fantastic to see both the MS Environmental Studies and Voinovich Scholars together! Love learning together with students in both these programs! Terrific to have all the students in the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University connect. www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09...

Conducting research or working on the ground bringing together environment, climate, peace, conflict & security? Then you should be signed up for the ECCP biweekly. Content draw from all quarters, not just the usual suspects (and I say that as one of the usual suspects). eccp.substack.com

Well done @schwartzstein.bsky.social for unpacking the many implications of climate change including changing boundaries and borders in potentially lethal ways. AND he included ways shared environmental interdependence can be utilized for environmental peacebuilding www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

Nice landing page for our Grey Green Alliance work on the dual trends of aging and warming. Looking to capture synergies in what makes communities more livable for older adults and more sustainable & climate resilient. Turns out lots of untapped opportunity. www.ohio.edu/voinovich-sc...

Lots were displaced. Most stayed in the South. Data on Hurricane Katrina making me think the hypothesized decisions to move to "climate havens" will likely stay close to home www.axios.com/local/new-or...

Latest installment of our MS Environmental Studies students conducting research that matters in the field. Sharing the good work done at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University. www.ohio.edu/news/2025/08...

Did you know Island Press has a free monthly book club? Join us in August for a conversation with THREAT MULTIPLIER author Sherri Goodman, moderated by NYT's Lisa Friedman. RSVP and ask your Qs on the evolving security landscape of the US and abroad. give.islandpress.org/ThreatMultip...

Congrats to Teslima Jallow for his successful defense of his MS Environmental Studies thesis on climate adaption and older adults in Banjul, The Gambia. Great contribution to our Grey Green Alliance research agenda and loads of helpful takeaways for practitioners.

Terrific to see @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social and @lauren-risi.bsky.social landing at @stimsoncenter.bsky.social after Wilson Center shutdown. Stimson great partner to us at ECSP for decades & regular contributor in environment, peacebuilding, climate & security space. www.stimson.org/2025/new-sec...

Thrilled to see this new article capturing some of the insights from a collaborative research effort to better understand how county level health and emergency response officials in Central Appalachia grapple with extreme weather events and risk communication. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Super excited to get Sadie's @sadiebabits.bsky.social new book Hot Takes from @islandpress.bsky.social. So much experience to feed into a guide for covering climate change. I know it will be a great resource for our students learning the ins and outs of science communication as well!

Great fun catching up with alums and friends of Environmental Studies at Ohio University as we mark our 50th anniversary. Thanks Art Oestrike and Jackie O's for hosting us in Columbus and partnering on a circular economy project of turning brewery waste into energy! www.ohio.edu/news/2025/07...

Important reminder from @katiesurma.bsky.social that environmental defenders face violence or the threat of, sanctioned & otherwise, so often. Long neglected focus of #environmentalsecurity work. Our IR & conflict studies biases blinded us to these key dynamics. insideclimatenews.org/news/2005202...

Good quick account of the many decades of assessing environment and climate links with security no matter which party controlled the White House.

Great to catch up with Environmental Studies Voinovich School alums! Thuy Ho and Sharif Wahab doing great research in the Geography PhD program at IU Bloomington!

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” Via @grist.org grist.org/biking/one-m...

Love the graduation selfie genre!

Love those smiling faces at graduation. Lots of hard work goes into both our Masters of Sustainability, Security & Resilience and our Masters of Science in Environmental Studies at the Voinovich School.

Serious food for thought at the end of another semester.

A thrill (and challenge) to keynote Ohio University's Earth Day program. Talked of 2025 losses in personal terms with the Wilson Center & U.S. Global Change Research Program, but spent most of my time on sources of inspiration from students, faculty, staff & community partners near and far.

Congrats @circleofblue.bsky.social on the great new look online. Go source for storytelling with a purpose on all things water. www.circleofblue.org

Latest installment of learning & making a difference through partnership at the Voinovich School. Four student teams tackled community challenges identified by four Mayors in the Mayors' Partnership for Progress. Presented & shared practical resource portfolios www.ohio.edu/news/2025/04...

Thrill to have Peter @schwartzstein.bsky.social beam in to discuss his new book The Heat and the Fury with Environmental Studies students at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University.

Consider supporting the Environmental Studies Program in our 50th year for more hands-on learning & making public service impacts in communities. Find us (& a match opportunity) under the Voinovich School of Leadership & Public Service on this Giving Day! www.givecampus.com/schools/Ohio...

Terrific to have Danielle Arigoni, author of Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation, beam in to talk about practical responses to the twin trends of aging and warming. Great opportunity for students to ask questions about a neglected area so ripe for collaboration. Advancing our Grey Green Alliance!

Great piece Emily Votaw @woubnews.bsky.social on this weekend's opening of Social Connectedness and Extreme Weather in Athens County: A Community Photo Exhibition at the Nelsonville Public Library. Fiona Doherty OSU's @agefriendlyoh.bsky.social will make remarks Sat 10:30am woub.org/2025/03/12/c...

Excited to see results of Fiona Doherty's photo elicitation research on preparedness for extreme weather among younger and older adults here in Athens County Ohio. Fiona is a key member of the Grey Green Alliance collaboration between OSU & OU. Event March 15 events.myacpl.org/event/social...

It was great fun speaking with @stefandoring.bsky.social about the link between science and policy and share some personal reflections on some of the work we have been doing on Climate, Peace and Security at @sipri.org over the years.

More waste to asset applied research frm colleagues at the Voinovich School at Ohio University. Looking forward to seeing how these strategies reduce waste burdens on Appalachian Ohio's waterways while reducing imported synthetic fertilizers & the emissions from producing them lnkd.in/g3393fAw

Talking Grey Green Alliance grad students Veneranda Gweliwo and Teslima Jallow doing a deep dive on rural to urban migration in West Africa. Key foundation for better understanding the challenges older adult especially women face in a warmer world given gender roles in agriculture.

Thanks to the folks at the Centre for Ageing Better for this new handbook on implementing Age-Friendly Communities framework at the local level. Hoping to see some ways sustainability and climate resilience are accounted for ageing-better.org.uk/resources/ag...

Interesting interview with @ashoswai.bsky.social on his new #climatesecurity book. Ashok has been there from the beginning of #environmentalsecurity & climate security research and practice work in late 80s/early 90s & therefore avoids common ahistorical pitfalls dialogue.earth/en/climate/q...

Big congrats to newly minted Dr. Azmat Khan with PhD from the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. Outstanding deep dive on climate policy communication in Pakistan. I was lucky to have Azmat twice in class and I've learned so much from him. Will share when research is published

Renewables, environmental peacebuilding & development in Somalia. New briefing note from @sipri.org www.sipri.org/publications...

Congrats to Age-Friendly Communities all across Ohio! Now up to 35! Thanks to friends at the @agefriendlyoh.bsky.social and CAFCO for their leadership. Those of us working on Age-Friendly Athens County and the Grey Green Alliance deeply value the many collaborations.

The China Environment Forum @wilsoncentercef.bsky.social at the @wilsoncenter.org has been a go-to resource for research and practice on all things China and environment related. Definitely partial having been part of the Wilson Center ECSP family @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social since the 1994 start.

How #ClimateChange Could Upend the American Dream #news #environment Abrahm Lustgarten reports for @propublica.org and @nytimes.com EJ Today Headlines: www.sej.org/headlines/list www.propublica.org/article/clim...

Inland flooding deaths up, coastal storm surge deaths down plus more deaths days & years after the storm has passed. Interesting piece on changing trends on so many fronts. Offers insights for ongoing work on twin trends of aging & warming Grey Green Alliance www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

Thanks @carlbruch.bsky.social and @enpax.bsky.social for this annual opportunity to facilitate a conversation on the state of play in environmental peacebuilding research & practice. Great line-up as usual, including incoming president of the Environmental Peacebuilding Assoc @eswein.bsky.social

This @enpax.bsky.social environmental peacebuilding webinar had Erika Weinthal @eswein.bsky.social Bram Ebus @bramebus.bsky.social & JoJo Nem Singh sharing insights on mining for green energy to criminal actor impacts in the Amazon to transboundary water coop/conflict www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZ0...

Appreciate @kyungmekim.bsky.social leaning into the complexity of climate & migration in the Middle East & North Africa rather than oversimplification so common on this issue & in such short formats manaramagazine.org/2025/01/de-s...

Connecting with @borenbears.bsky.social for his @apnews.com story on Greenland led to some more convos on climate, resources, trade routes & security news.ohio.edu/news/2025/01...

The mix of sustainability, security & resilience is our focus with an online asynchronous masters designed for working professionals. Certificates also. Join us Friday, Feb 7 at 12pm EST for virtual open house with faculty @nataliekruse.bsky.social & me grad.ohio.edu/register/?id...

We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.