The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Climate change
Scholarly Publications
Geophysical limits to global wind power
September 2012
Abstract There is enough power in Earth’s winds to be a primary source of near-zero-emission electric power as the global economy continues to grow through the twenty-first century.
Organizations and Global Warming
December 2010
Introduction This essay examines the two biggest environmental polluters, the oil and coal industries, and the possibilities of renewable energy that could replace them.
The Growth of Nuclear Power: Drivers & Constraints
October 2009
Many countries around the world are taking a fresh look at nuclear power.
Other Publications
Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis
November 2012
SummaryClimate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events-slowly at first, but then more quickly.
Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics
October 2011
Reducing carbon-dioxide emissions is primarily a political problem, rather than a technological one.
Managing Global Insecurity: A Plan for Action
September 2008
The 21st century will be defined by security threats unconstrained by borders--from climate change, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism to conflict, poverty, disease, and economic instability.
News
Climate change is an infrastructure problem
August 2021
A map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why. Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers...
Stanford course on human extinction and cognitive biases strikes a chord with students in time of COVID-19
June 2020
CISAC senior fellows Stephen Luby, professor of medicine, and Paul N. Edwards, director of the Program in Science, Technology and Society, teach plausible scenarios that could result in human...
Paul Edwards delivers keynote at Global Weather Conference Oct. 12
October 2018
What can the past teach us about the future of the global weather enterprise? On October 12th, William J.
Events
Biological threats: why the US is 'dangerously vulnerable'
September 27, 2017
Abstract: The threat of biological catastrophes-- stemming from natural, accidental or intentional causes-- looms ever larger as populations urbanize, global temperatures rise, and the access to...
Knowledge infrastructures under siege: environmental data systems as memory, truce, and target
September 18, 2017
Abstract: This talk examines the history of environmental data systems in the context of the Trump administration’s assault on environmental science.
Solving Climate Change: 2017
September 12, 2017
Abstract: We live in a world where the risks from a changing climate are clear. New research highlights the magnitude of the risks and the benefits of rapid, ambitious action.
Projects
Managing Global Insecurity Project (MGI)
Nearly 20 years into the post-cold war era, the existing multilateral architecture of international organizations, treaties, and alliances shows signs of acute distress.
English
Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources, and International Security
This project involves political scientists, economists, and medical researchers to address the question of whether hunger, poverty, disease and agricultural resource constraints foster civil...
English
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