Rod Schoonover

May 28, 2024 | rand.org | Benjamin Preston |Hila Levy |Heather Tallis |Rod Schoonover

Intensifying global changes, caused by human activity, are dramatically affecting human and ecological communities around the world. The individual and collective impacts of worsening floods, wildfires, and deforestation; melting glacial ice and rising seas; and emerging infectious diseases all exacerbate biodiversity loss and threaten human health, economic development, and poverty alleviation, especially for already vulnerable populations.

May 14, 2024 | eos.org | Benjamin Preston |Hila Levy |Heather Tallis |Rod Schoonover

Intensifying global changes, caused by human activity, are dramatically affecting human and ecological communities around the world. The individual and collective impacts of worsening floods, wildfires, and deforestation; melting glacial ice and rising seas; and emerging infectious diseases all exacerbate biodiversity loss and threaten human health, economic development, and poverty alleviation, especially for already vulnerable populations [The White House, 2022].

May 10, 2024 | weforum.org | Rod Schoonover

Earth system stresses such as biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution are escalating and increasingly pose challenges to national security. Seven Earth system stresses are already posing national security challenges. We need to adjust our security frameworks to better match the emerging risk landscape — and central in this effort will be multi-stakeholder cooperation. As we approach the mid-21st century, security issues worldwide are becoming increasingly complex and dire.

Jul 26, 2023 | csis.org | Caitlin Welsh |Franck Gbaguidi |Tanvi Nagpal |Rod Schoonover

Audio BriefA short, spoken-word summary from CSIS’s Caitlin Welsh on her commentary with Franck Gbaguidi, Tanvi Nagpal, Rod Schoonover, and Sera Young, What Else is Needed to Address Global Water Insecurity?