Environmental Security Research Group

Join us in exploring security implications and responses to ecological hazards.

About Us

Who are we?

The Environmental Security Research Group (ESRG) is a collaborative forum for security professionals and scholars working on:

The security repercussions of shifting environmental norms (from national and international, to human and ecological)
The implications of these shifts for providers of 'security' (from armed forces to environmental defenders)

What is our goal?

We aim to enhance cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary collaboration on education, research, and policy, in order to help organisations and societies to mitigate and adapt to these repercussions.

How do we achieve this?

The ESRG acts as a 'boundary object', a space that enables experts with highly diverse approaches and perspectives to maintain a common identity even where they lack consensus. Our structure is plastic enough to support members to deliver coordinated approaches for targeted projects and contending approaches for broader transformational goals.

Why do we operate like this?

The security implications of environmental shifts and the role of security providers are complex and contentious issues. Our membership brings together officials who are united in seeking to deliver positive change but who possess diverse (and, at times, conflicting) perspectives on how this can be achieved. In providing a forum where such individuals can work together as part of a common group, we aim to embody the systems required for delivering sustained responses to intractable challenges.

70+

15+

Impact-focused education, research and policy projects

Expert scholars, practitioners, and policymakers

A bunch of... *

Free-to-use resources, from podcasts to wargames

* Yes, we know it's not a specific number, but we keep on adding and changing our resources and it's a lot of work to do the maths and update this number every time. Sorry.

Why not have a look at some examples of what we're putting out into the world...

Serious Games

Publications

Podcasts

Need Help?

We have a range of experts, projects and services to help you achieve your goals.

(at the very least, we can point you in the right direction!)

Research Collaboration

Let's work together to research the implications and responses to climate, biodiversity, biocapacity and critical resource hazards.

Educational Provision

Targeted educational activities to help you and your people understand the challenges of environmental security, and potential responses.

Policy Development

Get assistance in developing policies to manage and adapt to environmental security issues.

Find out more

Access valuable and diverse insights for media broadcasting, to enable timely content and nuanced understandings of environmental security issues.

Media and Commentary

"Your support to the work conducted by my team has helped me understand the priority which must be given to uniting faith leaders, academia, governments, NGOs and multinational organisations in environmental peacebuilding work."

The Most Rev. and Rt Hon. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury

Reaching out...

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