PUBLICATIONS
The Canadian Armed Forces and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief: Defining a Role
24 August 2020 - This essay examines the operational content of HADR taskings since 1997 and makes a number of recommendations that include making policy changes to mitigate disaster risk, clarifying CAF roles, and determining how best to use federal funds to source disaster requirements for large contingents of semi-skilled and unskilled labour.
The Global Security Defense Index on Climate Change
September 2014 - The aim of the Global Security Defense Index on Climate Change is to determine to what extent governments around the world consider climate change to be a national security issue,and how their militaries and national security communities have begun to plan for the effects of climate change.
The Climate-Conflict-Displacement Nexus from a Human Security Perspective
2 April 2022 - This book helps understand the emerging nexus between climate change, conflict, and displacement from a human security perspective. Analyses through empirical studies the current shifting dynamics induced by environmental and climatic changes. Includes a special section on the Arctic, including climatic changes and indigenous food security.
The Indian military and environmental affairs: an analysis through the lens of military change
11 June 2020 - The article attempts to identify the doctrinal and policy dimensions of the Indian military’s role in environmental affairs as well as the factors that influence formal institutionalisation.
The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters: 1995 -2015
2015 - This publication provides a sober and revealing analysis of weather-related disaster trends over a twenty year time-frame ...
The role of military forces in emergency management (civil–military interaction)
2020 - Those involved in emergency response and recovery, including the military, require an acute level of awareness of livelihoods that rely on livestock and their associated implications for human security.
Use of Military Resources to Address Natural and Human-made Disasters
September 2021 - This Background Paper reviews in a schematic way the legal framework and actual use of military assets by various countries in the face of emergencies caused by natural and human-made disasters, identifying initial good practices, as well as some emerging key issues.
U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe
2020 - U.S. Emergency Management in the 21 st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe explores a critical issue in American public policy: Are the current public sector emergency management systems sufficient to handle future disasters given the environmental and social changes underway? In this timely book, Claire B. Rubin and Susan L. Cutter focus on disaster recovery efforts, community resilience, and public policy issues of related to recent disasters and what they portend for the future
Weathering the Storms Together: Improving US Humanitarian Efforts
March 2023 - This Atlantic Council report argues that the US humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) system—well practiced and extensively developed—could further serve US and partners’ needs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and beyond through targeted improvements.
World Disasters Report 2020: Come Heat or High Water
2020 - The impacts of climate change are already devastating lives and livelihoods every year, and they will only get worse without immediate and determined action. The World Disasters Report 2020 analyses climate disaster trends and shows how we can tackle the humanitarian impacts of the climate crisis together.