
Peter Jacques
Professor of Political Science, University of Central Florida
Peter J. Jacques is Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida, where he teaches environmental security in the UCF Security Studies Ph.D. program, along with global and domestic environmental politics and sustainability. Among other publications, he is author of Sustainability: the Basics published in 2015.
From 2007-2010, Syria suffered the worst drought since record-keeping. Amidst corruption and mismanagement, the drought caused crops to fail and over a million farmers abandoned their land for the [...] More