The Environment-Conflict Nexus

Dr. Francis A. Galgano is an Associate Professor and the founding Chair of the Department of Geography and the Environment at Villanova University. Dr. Galgano conducts research in the field of geography and national security affairs, especially in the fields of environmental security, governance, and effective sovereignty. Specifically, he examines the relationship between environmental change and violent conflict. Dr. Galgano teaches related courses at Villanova such as the Geography of National Security, Sustainability Studies, Medical Geography, Land Use Planning,  and Humanitarian Development and Sustainability. He has published five books, three physical geography study guides, and more than thirty professional articles focused on geographic, environmental, and military subjects. 

Chapter 1. The Environment-Conflict Nexus.- Chapter 2. States at Risk: The Environment-Conflict Model.- Chapter 3. Defining Climate Change: What to Expect in a Warmer World.- Chapter 4. Abrupt Climate Change.- Chapter 5. Water in the Middle East.- Chapter 6. Water, Land, and Governance: Environmental Security in Dense Urban Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 7. When Politics, the Environment, and Advocacy Compete-Environmental Security in the South China Sea.- Chapter 8. East Africa in World War I: A Geographic Analysis.- Chapter 9. Conflict in the Horn of Africa: The Ogaden War of 1977.- Chapter 10. The 1994 Rwandan Genocide.- Chapter 11. Climate and the Syrian Civil War.