The authors investigate the Sahel's underexplored relationships between the location and timing of environmental and agricultural resource variability, and their impact on conflict.
The article presented a case study of the Water–Employment–Migration (WEM) nexus framework. The authors undertook a comprehensive review of the relevant literature on the WEM nexus and complemented this secondary data with interviews with key informants from the institutions involved in the WEM nexus, as well as from youth organizations active in the Mediterranean region and working in the development sector.
Because of the impacts of the growing population in Lebanon together with the changing climate, the Bekaa Valley’s water resources is in a precarious situation. In this study, the impacts on water balance and water quality for a 2013 baseline and future scenarios are simulated using the Water Evaluation And Planning model.
In this study, the authors use remotely sensed-based measures of waterholes with health survey data to investigate the linkages between child health outcomes related to food security.
The authors investigate relationships between disaster-level fire events and extreme heat on county-level migration in the USA using annual panel data for the years 1990–2015.
Focusing on water, the authors investigate the extent to which the spatial variation in the availability of water is linked with children’s malnutrition in the Sahel, using remotely sensed-based measures of waterholes with health survey data.
The objective of this study was to critically review relevant literature to assess the complex web of interrelations and feedbacks that affect the factors affecting food security.
Using a 14-year MODIS time series, between 2000 and 2014, the study calculated statistical trends in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI—a spectral index representing vegetation cover) to identify areas where vegetation cover has either increased or decreased. There are 125 study areas chosen where statistically significant changes in NDVI were found and used time series of monthly rainfall, Landsat images, Google Earth images and environmental GIS layers to identify the type and cause of landscape changes.
The focused focused explicitly on precipitation, aridity, drought, land degradation, soil constraints, and availability of cropland and pastures as potential environmental drivers of migration in drylands.
Article deals with the groundwater, agricultural, and population consequences of resource depletion due to rock blasting and stone cutting.
