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Gates: More Money for Global Health Is Good for the Environment
›By Gib Clarke // Thursday, January 28, 2010
Bill Gates gave the PHE community a much-needed upgrade in his foundation’s 2nd Annual Letter, released this week. Unfortunately it still has a few bugs.
“In the long run, not spending on health is a bad deal for the environment because improvements in health, including voluntary family planning, lead people to have smaller families, which in turn reduces the strain on the environment,” concludes Gates.
This statement could dramatically raise awareness of and funding for population-environment programs. Any time Bill Gates talks, the world listens, as evidenced by the barrage of coverage from Reuters, AFP, and top IT newswires. For the public, it offers a rare glimpse into development strategy, so Gates’ thoughts (and financial commitments) could be seen as representative of the foundation community’s approach to global health problems.
Although it may seem obvious that fewer people place less strain on the environment, this connection has been largely absent from the environmental agenda, including the efforts to combat climate change. Some environmental leaders and organizations have dismissed population as an unimportant distraction from the real business at hand. Others have noted that population growth’s impact on climate change is far greater in the rich world than in poor countries, whose per capita emissions are a fraction of developed countries’.
Gates’ comment may cause those in the first camp to re-evaluate the importance of family planning, and it is likely to energize the converted. But it will have less impact on those focused on consumption. But if it encourages the environmental community to put population and family planning issues back on the table, it will have gone a long way.
However, Gates could have gone further, by explaining that family planning is a relatively inexpensive way to mitigate climate change, compared to complex and emerging technological solutions. He also could have pointed out that climate change is expected to increase the prevalence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, or that sick or malnourished individuals may be forced to mismanage natural resources.
Because Gates didn’t make these explicit connections, many in the media missed his point. The wire headlines pit health against environment, when Gates was in fact pointing out how interdependent they are. This distortion is symptomatic of the media’s tendency to highlight the horserace. But maybe they would pay closer attention if the Gates Foundation put its money where its mouth is—and funded programs that integrate family planning and the environment.
Perhaps several years from now, we will look back and say that this letter marks the start of the Gates Foundation’s integrated approach to development. But we may need to wait for Letter 3.0 for a complete install.
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Oli Brown on Climate Security and Environmental Peacebuilding
›By Sajid Anwar // Thursday, January 28, 2010“Climate change seems to be eclipsing all other environment and security issues, but those issues haven’t gone away,” says Oli Brown, program manager at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). “There are still problems with illegal timber, still problems with mining, there are still problems with diamonds, there are still problems over land, water, and so on. Climate change encompasses a lot of those issues and makes some of them more difficult and more pressing.”
IISD is working with the United Nations Environment Programme on ensuring that these issues are addressed in UN peacekeeping missions. “What we do with UNEP is to coordinate a group of experts that help to advise the UN family on ways that it should do conflict prevention, post conflict reconstruction, peacekeeping, peace negotiations and peacebuilding more effectively,” says Brown. MORE -
Land Grab: Sacrificing the Environment for Food Security
›By ECSP Staff // Wednesday, January 27, 2010
According to the United Nations, 74 million acres of farmland in the developing world were acquired by foreign governments and investors over the first half of 2009 — an amount equal to half of
Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmland, a new book edited by Michael Kugelman and Susan L. Levenstein of the Wilson Center’s Asia Program, brings together international organizations, farmers, and agricultural investors to discuss this new phase of the world food crisis.
The book, which grew out of a May 2009 conference (webcast), includes regional case studies from Africa,MORE
“So long as the global race for farmland continues, the assault on the environment will as well — with troubling implications for food security,” Kugelman and Levenstein opine in World Politics Review:Food-importing nations, with memories of the skyrocketing global food costs and supply shortages of 2008 still fresh, are increasingly fearful about the volatility of world commodities markets. Given their rising populations and disappearing arable land, such countries have good reason to be afraid. As a result, some food importers, particularly in the Persian Gulf and
Read more on World Politics Review.
Meanwhile, nations whose land is targeted, many of them dependent on international food aid, are desperate for agricultural investment. Though blessed with arable land, their farm yields are flat and their agricultural sectors flagging. Heavy doses of foreign capital, they reason, will enhance farming technology, improve crop yields, and ultimately end hunger. Although these hoped-for effects are not guaranteed, many governments in these countries welcome foreign interest in their land, and actively seek out prospective investors by dangling tempting tax incentives.
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Eye On:
Peace Through Parks on Israel’s Borders – Dream or Reality?
›By Julien Katchinoff // Wednesday, January 27, 2010In areas fraught with conflict, is it possible to advance conflict resolution through environmental discourse? A recent conference hosted by Tel Aviv University’s Porter School of Environmental Studies explored this question through an examination of existing peace parks, as well as possible future preserves.
The wide-ranging discussion sought to apply theories of conflict resolution and environmental peacemaking to local conflict in the Middle East. Touching on conservation, conflict resolution, local history, geography, ecology, and diplomacy, the participants underscored the importance of restoration efforts, local environmental maintenance, and the pursuit of peace through environmental cooperation.MORE
For more, watch these presentations on YouTube (in English; with Timestamps):
Event Part One:
0:15:50
“Conservation to Conflict Resolution: Understanding the Theory and Practice of Peace Parks”
Dr. Saleem Ali, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont
1:36:28
“Peace Parks on Israel’s Borders: Lessons from South Sinai”
Dr. Dan Rabinowitz, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
1:55:49
“The Jordan River Peace Park: Post-conflict environmental peacebuilding between Israel and Jordan”
Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director, Friends of the Earth Middle East
Event Part Two:
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“The Golan Heights – A critical habitat with global significance”
Dr. Tamar Ron, Ecologist, biodiversity conservation consultant
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Session Response:
Valerie Brachya, Director, Environmental Policy Center Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
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Watch: Harriet Birungi: Challenges Facing HIV-Positive Adolescents in Kenya
›By Julia Griffin // Monday, January 25, 2010“Services are not necessarily very adolescent-friendly, so when you get children who are HIV-positive they are likely to face discrimination,” says Harriet Birungi, an associate in the Reproductive Health Program with the Population Council in Kenya, in this interview with ECSP’s Gib Clarke following the Global Health Initiative’s Integrating HIV/AIDS and Maternal Health Services panel.MORE
According to Birungi, medical service censoring and targeted exclusion from schools are among the top challenges facing Kenyan adolescents living with HIV/AIDS. She hopes better support systems and intervention strategies, especially for pregnant individuals, will help medical personnel more quickly identify HIV-positive young adults needing critical medical services. -
Collier and Birdsall: Plunder or Peace
›By Julien Katchinoff // Friday, January 22, 2010
In a preview of his new book The Plundered Planet: Why We Must – and How We Can – Manage Nature for Global Prosperity, Paul Collier dispelled the common perception that Africa’s indentified resource reserves are the world’s largest. In actuality, it is estimated that up to four-fifths of the value of subsoil assets in the African continent are yet to be discovered. “That is the big story,” Collier remarked. “Here are assets which could finance transformation….but historically haven’t.” Instead, these resources have been plundered.
In a recent event hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace, Paul Collier, professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, and Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, discussed how resource-rich environments in developing countries have been traditionally misused. The two also proposed strategies to disrupt these processes and transform resource “curses” into deeply needed support for peace and stable development.
Conflict and instability in countries whose economies are heavily invested in natural resource have often hindered local development and security. Many of these countries—including Cambodia, Angola, Indonesia, and DRC—have suffered from one of two forms of plunder:
Types of Natural Resources Plunder:
1. Where the few steal from the many:
Natural assets are, by definition, without natural owners, and therefore lie as easily taken common goods. “This process of expropriation opens up a whole array of dysfunctional variants, many of which are violent,” Collier noted.
2. Where the present steals from the future:
Intertemporal mismanagement is a possibility, as unlike man-made assets, natural assets belong to all generations.
Operating from a worldview of weak sustainability, where profits from natural assets are reinvested for the benefit of future generations, Collier suggested that natural resource rights are more akin to “rights of stewardship” than traditional property rights. “We may well transform that value into something that is more productive, but if we pull up natural assets from the ground, we should leave to the future something that is equivalently valuable.”
Collier argued that the successful harnessing of natural resources for stable and sustainable development depends on the application of a tenuous decision chain:
Natural Resources Decision Chain:
1. Discovery Process:
Failure in this phase stems from poor property rights, and the time consistency problem—uncertainty that conditions and regulations that make expensive upfront investments profitable today will remain in place in the future.
2. Appropriate Taxation:
Currently, as a result of poor negotiations or limited information regarding the status of resources, governments are unable to craft tax regimes which effectively capture resource rent.
3. Avoiding the Delta:
Sustainable management any discovered subsoil assets must avoid a local “Nigerian Delta” catastrophe. Clearly designating the government as the sole responsible agent for resource rents may limit such failures.
4. Saving the money:
To avoid plunder of the future by the present, Collier suggested that, though politically difficult, a proportion of revenue streams must be delineated from general accounts.
5. Building the capacity to invest in the country:
Collier deemed the inability of resource-rich countries to attract diversified investment as the “killer link.” Governments must use returns from subsoil assets to fund “investment in investment”—directing public capital toward transportation and utility infrastructure, education, health, and other short-term projects. Once in place, such projects encourage future public and private investments, thereby multiplying long-term returns.
As with many complex systems, Collier warned that the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If one link fails, “the chain won’t pull the country from poverty to prosperity.” On the other hand, if each link holds, the value is tremendous. ”[Y]ou really can pull the country from poverty to prosperity over the course of a generation. There are no fixes in economics that are faster than that.”
Ultimately, Collier and Birdsall emphasized that success depends upon the development of an informed and competent “critical mass” of people. Even the strongest decision chain will fail if it is not underwritten by a majority of the population. Birdsall reiterated the need for public participation in the process, possibly through direct income distribution or responsible interventions by non-vested third parties.
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VIDEO—How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day
›By Dan Asin // Friday, January 22, 2010“Most people think that if you’re living on $1 a day or $2 a day, it’s impossible to save,” Jonathan Morduch tells ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko in a discussion of his book, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day. The Woodrow Wilson Center hosted Morduch and his co-author, Daryl Collins, for presenations at the Center and on Capital Hill last September. “[I]n fact, because of being poor—not despite it—households were spending a lot of time building up for the future.”
“What was really critical about what this new work was showing was that poor households were strategizing, they were making decisions,” says Morduch. “They were, essentially, juggling, active in ways that had been hidden from sight with the bigger surveys.” Now revealed, this knowledge creates opportunities for policymakers to help poor households in new ways, such as reducing regulatory costs for financial institutions seeking to service poor communities.
Morduch says microfinance and microcredit schemes are doing well, but that they are not enough to serve poor communities’ entire financial needs. “The next steps involve embracing what’s already going on and making products, devising products, that are even more flexible or even more appropriate,” he says. Households have a diverse range of needs, from food and water to financing health care and education, and Morduch says these diverse needs merit diverse solutions. MORE -
From the Wilson Center:
Lessons from the Field: Focusing on Environment, Health, and Development to Address Conflict
›By Julia Griffin // Thursday, January 21, 2010
“Even in the hardest moments of conflict there are opportunities for cooperation, and they need to be seized,” said Juan Dumas, senior advisor of Fundación Futuro Latinamericano during the Pathways to Peace: Stories of Environment, Health, and Conflict roundtable event co-hosted by the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and the Fetzer Institute on January 13th.
“Even as you were talking about the conflict potential,” said Aaron Wolf, professor of Geoscience at Oregon State University, “everywhere you looked there were people talking about water uniting together across boundaries and being able to share… [and] people being willing to talk about water when they wont talk about anything else.”
Dumas and Wolf were joined by Gidon Bromberg, co-director of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME); Shewaye Deribe, project coordinator for the Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association (EWNRA); and Joan Regina L. Castro, executive vice president of the PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc. (PFPI) to discuss work that demonstrates the positive impact multi-dimensional development and peacebuilding programs can have on environmental conflict arenas.
Water as an Entry Point
“In the academic world, there’s a growing documentation about the coming wars of the 21st century are going to be about water resources,” said Wolf, discussing how water resources are inherently intertwined with the Arab-Israeli and other regional conflicts. His research, however, suggests the opposite. In recent history, he said, cooperation for the resource, not conflict, was observed in nearly two-thirds of the world’s cross-boundary watersheds.
“Water is a wonderful way to have regional dialogue,” he continued, discussing how technical data and modeling are only part of any successful water conflict resolution. “A language that people have in common, and when we talk about water—because it’s connected to everything we do—we end up talking about our shared vision of the future.”
“We came out with a vision that is a shared vision,” echoed Bromberg in describing the Good Water Neighbors (GWN) project—a FoEME program seeking to improve water scarcity and quality in the Jordan River watershed by fostering cooperation between Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian leaders. “The Jordan office advocates that vision to the Jordanian government, the Israeli office to Israeli government, the Palestinian office to the Palestinian authority. That’s proven to be very effective because it’s the same vision.”
While hesitant to say the program could lead to or be a model for peace in the Middle East, Bromberg did underscore how multi-dimensional methods used in GWN could productively serve future peacebuilding efforts in the region.
“By empowering young people to go out and improve their own water reality with their own hands [through rainwater harvesting and grey water collection] they learn together, and then they build the facilities within their own communities,” said Bromberg. “…Not only does it empower the youths but it helps create peacemakers.”
Integrated PHE and Conflict Avoidance
“Water is common for all of us because it is the base of our life, of our survival,” said Deribe, linking ENWRA’s integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) wetland restoration program in Ethiopia to the greater discussion. “I think it is a lack of altruism, a lack of mutualistic thinking which leads us to this kind of conflict.”
Castro, pointing to her own PHE experience with PFPI, found that multi-sectoral programs promote improved environmental quality and community stability. In the Philippines, her program targeted local youth, fishermen, and policymakers to promote food security through sustainable resource management, improved medical and family planning services, and expanded livelihood training.
Castro found that a PHE program could continue even after funding ran out. “A project can be sustained and can be owned by the local governments and local communities if they are provided the capacity to be able to continue to implement the programs and that they see the value of the programs that they do,” she said.
Lessons in Conflict Resolution
Funding, said Dumas, is the biggest limiting operating factor for organizations that facilitate dialogue in environmental conflict areas. The ability to travel across Latin America on short notice to help resolve conflict has been extremely beneficial to Dumas’ organization; but in an arena where funders require full proposals with specific outcomes and indicators, such availability over the long-term is “not financially sustainable.”
Dumas did, however, suggest ways to reduce the need for conflict resolution while opening accessibility to funding. He recommended that institutions mainstream environmental considerations into all sectors of decision-making, thereby improving capacity to respond to environmental conflicts within the given population. He also suggested the creation of “early action funds” – pools of money that his and other organizations can use on short notice for dialogue facilitation support. -
On the Beat:
Challenges to Covering Population
›By Dan Asin // Thursday, January 21, 2010“We journalists tend to deal with the immediate crisis,” Tim Wheeler, an environmental reporter with the Baltimore Sun, told an October gathering of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Madison, Wisconsin. Because the effects of population growth largely won’t be felt until the future, the subject is challenging for journalists who, as a whole, “tend not to look down the road too far.”
There are, however, other challenges, ranging from funding to ideology. Falling profits have pushed newspapers into expanding “hyperlocal” coverage at the expense of other stories and editorial boards are reluctant to risk increasingly important readership over a topic that, when brought to its logical conclusion, can enflame sensitivities over immigration and abortion.
On the positive side, Wheeler noted an increase in the number of articles covering intersects of population and the environment. As an example, he pointed to a Baltimore Sun series on the Chesapeake Bay citing growing population as a reason that 25-year efforts to restore the Bay have had a limited impact. Nevertheless, he lamented that the majority of articles covering population were op-ed opinion pieces rather than hard news coverage.
Without knowledge of the population-environment connection, Wheeler says, efforts to reduce our environmental impacts will run into the same problem as those to restore the Chesapeake Bay. “We’re going to wake up . . . after 25 years and say, ‘After all that we’ve done and spent, why haven’t we made greater progress?’” He underscored that, to ensure reductions aren’t outpaced by overall growth in population, issue awareness is essential. MOREWater: The Next Climate Negotiation Tool?
›By Kayly Ober // Thursday, January 21, 2010When the dust settled at the COP15 in Copenhagen, participating parties failed to reach a formal climate change agreement and old divisions between developed and developing countries intensified. Despite such setbacks, there may be a natural building block in formal climate change negotiations between the north and south in the future: water.
Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, argues in a recent LA Times op-ed that economic interdependence and, more concretely, basic survival hinge on water in both developed and developing countries alike, most especially in Latin America.
With 31 percent of the world’s freshwater resources,
Water’s importance in the region is obvious, but why should developed countries care about it when negotiating a climate deal? The simplest answer, according to Moreno, is that developed countries can invest in projects that resolve near-term, climate-related problems such as water supply and sanitation as they look for ways to spend the billions in aid they have just pledged for climate adaptation in the developing world. And many international donors, particularly the UN Development Programme, World Bank, and World Wildlife Fund already have invested millions of dollars towards water management and sanitation adaptation projects.
On the other side of the coin, Latin American governments should “start treating water as a truly strategic resource instead of a free and limitless one.” Moreno claims this would mean “prioritizing investments and reforms in basic services in order to reduce waste, closing the coverage gap and eliminating waterborne diseases among the poor” in the short term and would also require “a willingness to make concessions in pursuit of global emission reductions that…could be crucial to ensuring reliable supplies of water.”
While it may seem that Latin America’s water problems are not pressing, it is undeniable that if not properly managed, essential components of the region—such as the vital agricultural economy, the health of the population, and political and economic stability—may be in jeopardy.
Photo: Man drinking water from a pipe in Ecuador. Courtesy Edwin Huffman and the World Bank. MOREFrom the Wilson Center:
Water, Conflict, and Cooperation: Practical Concerns for Water Development Projects
›By Julien Katchinoff // Wednesday, January 20, 2010
“Water disputes that can start at the local level—little things—have the potential, in extreme cases, to burgeon into something much bigger,” warned Ken Hackett, president of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), during a discussion at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Webcast) for the launch of CRS’ new publication, Water and Conflict: Incorporating Peacebuilding into Water Development. The report provides guidance to water development practitioners, civil society members, and others striving to incorporate water and peacebuilding into their project frameworks.
In recognition of water’s potential to drive conflict, Hackett—part of a panel featuring Jason Gehrig, Water and Conflict‘s primary author; William Hall, professor of conflict resolution at Georgetown University; and Tjip Walker, team leader of USAID’s conflict management and mitigation office‘s warning and analysis unit—urged those working on water to focus attention on identifying and diffusing areas of emerging disagreement while they are still manageable. “We must, in a proactive way, incorporate peacebuilding methodologies in water and sanitation work,” said Hackett.
Looking Beyond Tubes and Tanks
Prior to witnessing violent protests within the Altiplano region of Bolivia, Jason Gehrig assumed that the primary obstacles to successful water development efforts would be found in the technical phase of designing or building delivery systems. Local political developments, however, demonstrated that “we can’t just be looking at development without also looking at the structural issues at play,” said Gherig.
Emphasis on “social infrastructure” and the inclusion of peacebuilding paradigms allows for conflict transformation and the mitigation of future violence through heightened conflict sensitivity by local practitioners. Such understanding and sensitivity to local conflicts and structures, Gehrig asserted, can only be achieved by “listening, winning hearts and minds (beginning with our own) by getting close to the people so that their struggle for life, for dignity, for peace, becomes our own.”
Defining the Role of Environmental Conflict Resolution
William Hall noted that conflict sensitive practices apply several elements of environmental conflict resolution (ECR), such as in-depth social participation, context analysis, stakeholder involvement, and the use of neutral parties.
For Hall, the goal of ECR is not only conflict resolution, but “also how people will be involved.” Adapting a framework design from the International Association for Public Participation, Hall reminded the audience that decision-makers must clearly communicate both the goals of their intervention as well as the degree of public involvement required and desired. These issues are sensitive; Hall emphasized that, once a commitment has been made, it is extremely important “to be true to [one's promises.]“
In situations such as those included in the CRS report, successful peacebuilding efforts—which result in high-quality agreements and improved working relationships between the affected parties—must include effective engagement of appropriate stakeholders, proper mediation, and high-quality information. While many of these factors may be seen as additional procedural complications and expenses, Hall countered that recent research has shown that, compared to standard methods, agreements reached within an ECR context grant economic and environmental benefits beyond those afforded by alternative processes.
Peacefully Managing the Commons
Tjip Walker noted that effective governance of water and other common pool resources, often magnets for mismanagement and contention, should be a pivotal concern for peacebuilders in fragile states. Drawing on research on governance and conflict, Walker explained that countries that are more democratic, and allow for greater social participation, are at a lower risk for violent conflict.
With regard to threats posed by common pool resources, Walker reminded the forum that Elinor Ostrom’s work demonstrates it is possible—providing a “enabling environment” for governance—to manage such resources without exposure to dire consequences. In many cases, however, Ostrom’s requirements for sustainable management are unfortunately difficult to achieve and are further complicated by pre-existing challenges stemming from economic dependencies and political arrangements.
Referring to previous trans-boundary river conflict projects, Walker noted that “most of them have been positive…[which] seems to suggest that we are all in this together.” Successes such as these grant hope for the future, yet also demonstrate a need for negotiated agreements across political boundaries. “Under the right circumstances,” Walker concluded, “we do have the ability to manage these resources effectively in ways that are perceived as generally being effective and legitimate.”
For more information about water, conflict and cooperation, as well as other events and publications under ECSP’s Navigating Peace Initiative, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/water.
Photo: Courtesy David Hawxhurst, Woodrow Wilson Center.
MOREDot-Mom:
Human Resources for Maternal Health
›By Calyn Ostrowski // Wednesday, January 20, 2010
“Pregnancy is not a disease, a woman should not die of pregnancy…it doesn’t need a new drug…it doesn’t need research – we just need skilled workforce at different levels,” argued Seble Frehywot, assistant research professor of Health Policy and Global Health at George Washington University, at the Global Health Initiative’s second event of the Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health Series.
Research shows that increased access to skilled health workers during pregnancy and delivery, including midwives and other practitioners, can significantly reduce maternal mortality in developing countries. One solution to the current human resource crisis is to expand, and in many cases, acknowledge, the skills and responsibilities of non-physician health workers.MORE
Task-Sharing: Who, What, and How
“There are too many preventable deaths…if we look at the data, quality maternal health services are not available,” argued Frehywot, as she presented the following evidence:
There are four common types, or levels, of task-shifting:- Countries that have the highest maternal mortality rates are those that also have the greatest worker shortage
- In Africa, for every 10,000 births, only 2 physicians and 11 nurses or midwives are present at delivery.
- According to the World Health Organization, there needs to be at least 53 skilled health care workers (nurses, doctors, midwives) per 10,000 births to meet Millennium Goal 5 which seeks to reduce maternal deaths by 75 percent by 2015.
1. Doctors to non-physician health clinicians
“All [task-shifting] needs to be done through a sound regulatory framework…it is very important to match tasks that are needed at the ground level with the competency needed to back it up,” maintained Frehywot. Regulatory issues such as the scope of practice, standard of care, training, licensure, and supervision must be addressed to ensure safe and high-quality treatment. Additionally, political buy-in and commitment from the Ministry of Health, medical universities, and professional councils and associations are necessary for long-term development, argued Frehywot.
2. Health clinicians to registered nurses and midwives
3. Nurses/midwives to community health care workers
4. Community health care workers to expert patients
Policies for scaling-up human resources should start at the district level, as these localized hospitals are geographically closest to the need, argued Frehywot. “If one really wants to decrease the maternal mortality ratios, especially by 2015, this is where most of the people live.”
Applying Task-Shifting in Afghanistan
“Maternal mortality ratios in Afghanistan are the second highest in the world,” declared Jeffrey Smith, regional technical director for Asia at Jhpiego. In 2002, when Smith arrived in Afghanistan, there were limited health workers, most with out-of-date skills, and no functional schools for training. “The most important decision made early in the reconstruction [of] Afghanistan was that midwives would be the backbone of the reproductive health workforce and they would be empowered with the skills to perform the tasks necessary for provision of basic emergency obstetric care,” shared Smith.
Making the case for task-shifting, Smith discussed the importance of empowering health workers on the front line so that they may provide services in the most peripheral areas. “Task shifting should not be a temporary fix until we have more doctors,” argued Smith, as this framework disenfranchises a cadre of health workers and fails to build long-term solutions for human resources. Instead, Smith advocated for the “Health Center Intrapartum Care Strategy” that makes midwives the foundation of care and includes strategies for training, staffing, and linkages to the overall health system.
In this post-conflict setting, task-shifting began as an emergency approach. However, it rapidly became a development strategy for professionalizing the workforce and rebuilding the health system. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health was imperative to the success of scaling up midwives as they clearly defined from the beginning what was needed and who would provide care, taking steps to ensure that the midwifery schools maintained legitimacy and received formal accreditation.
“Keep it clinical and keep it local,” shared Smith. The midwifery schools made efforts to recruit individuals from the provincial level, teaching specific life-saving skills applicable in the field. This framework has successfully retained 86% of its graduates, and many of the women report that the program has provided them with a sense of community and ownership.
Building a Sustainable Health Workforce
“We invite the maternal health community to take advantage of the incredible momentum that human resources for health is having right now,” shared Pape Gaye, president and CEO of IntraHealth. While there are many issues within the health system that need to be strengthened, Gaye maintained that “we must pick our battles” and advocated for an emphasis on scaling-up the training and availability of midwives.
In order to scale-up midwives for maternal health we must avoid the same old traps, particularly the lack of donor coordination shared Gaye. “If we do a better job of improving coordination we will start solving the problem.” Additionally, Gaye discussed the implications for training generation “Y,” emphasizing the importance of including new technologies available for training, including PDA’s and e-learning courses.
Performance outcomes and training are the two key pillars of effective scale-up, shared Gaye. Task-shifting also requires legal support and the endorsement from medical associations to help legitimize this new health system framework. “This is not simple work; you really need to have a systems approach. What we seek in the end is good integration. Integration across systems, integration across roles, courses, learning processes, and training for maximum adaptability,” shared Gaye.Walker’s World: From Warming to Warring: A Review of Cleo Paskal’s New Book
›By ECSP Staff // Friday, January 15, 2010Wilson Center Senior Scholar Martin Walker recently reviewed Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map by Cleo Paskal, for his UPI column, “Walker’s World.”MORE
Excerpts:
The Copenhagen summit showed that climate change is as much about geopolitics and power as it is about the weather. China‘s blunt refusal to accept any binding limits on its carbon emissions, despite the agonized pleas of small island governments facing extinction, demonstrated that this new aspect of the game of nations is going to be played as hardball.
And yet, as Cleo Paskal argues in her pioneering new book “Global Warring,” China is also powering ahead on every aspect of climate change. While protecting its right to pollute (because it depends heavily on coal as its main homegrown energy source), China is using state subsidies to seize the lead in solar power manufacturing….But perhaps Paskal’s most striking story is the way that China is also seeking to become a major player in the arctic. China has acquired an icebreaker, a seat with observer status on the Arctic Council and its own arctic research base at Svalbard. (China also has two research bases in the Antarctic.) …
Paskal’s book is full of such vignettes, illustrating the way that climate change and the intensifying competition for resources is starting to change the nature of power politics. Paskal, a Canadian who is a fellow of London’s prestigious Chatham House think tank and a consultant for the U.S. Department of Energy, has been a pioneering scholar of the new terrain where climate change confronts national security, where geopolitics, geoeconomics and global warming all collide. It is not just rivalry for oil and gas supplies and water, but also for fishing rights and undersea mining and mineral rights that may well be up for grabs when some of the lowest-lying Pacific island countries disappear under the rising waves. …
“We need to start thinking about the legal and economic implications of these developments now, before we have to start tackling them in the middle of a crisis or a humanitarian emergency,” Paskal told a seminar at Washington’s Woodrow Wilson Center Friday. …
Paskal sees China and Russia taking these issues more seriously that the United States and Europe, and her book is not just a wakeup call for Western leaders but is also an arresting and original work on climate change, probably the most important book on the environment to be published this year.
“As pressure is put on food, water supplies and national boundaries, famine and war may become more frequent,” Paskal concludes. “This instability may make populations more tolerant of autocratic governments, especially nationalistic capitalist ones where the political, economic and military sectors combine to protect existing resources and aggressively try to secure new ones. China and Russia already have a head start on this model.”Alec Crawford on Climate Change and Conflict in Africa and the Middle East
›By Sajid Anwar // Thursday, January 14, 2010“Climate change certainly does pose a risk to the world in terms of violent conflict, but there’s a lot of nuance to that argument and a lot of attention and care has to be put into making that case,” says Alec Crawford, project officer at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in this video interview with ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko.
According to Crawford, the argument that climate change will lead directly to violent conflict is overly simplistic, but climate could be one of conflict’s many drivers in both Africa and the Middle East. A recent IISD report discusses the potential security challenges of climate change and how to prevent them. MOREEye On:
An Island of Peace in a Sea of Conflict: The Jordan River Peace Park
›By Dan Asin // Wednesday, January 13, 2010Saleem Ali filmed this video on his visit to the “peace island” between Jordan and Israel, which Friends of the Earth Middle East (FOEME) is working to convert into an international peace park.MORE
FOEME co-Director Gidon Bromberg will be at the Wilson Center today to discuss the peace park and other FOEME water cooperation initiatives in more detail as a panelist participating in “Pathways to Peace: Stories of Environment, Health, and Conflict,” an event discussing field-based lessons for addressing environment, health, development, and conflict.
Video: Filmed by Saleem H. Ali (University of Vermont, editor of the MIT Press book Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution) with commentary by Elizabeth Ya’ari (FOEME), January 2010.Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)
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- Surprises Ahead? Population-Environment Dynamics and Tipping Points
- Spring Thaw: What Role Did Climate Change and Natural Resource Scarcity Play in the Arab Spring?
- Interview With Elizabeth Deheza on Climate-Induced Migration and Security in Mexico
- Leslie Mwinnyaa: Young People Drive Integrated Development in Ghana’s Ellembelle District
- Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (ECSP Report 14)
- Combining Health and Food Security in Mozambique: Interview With Pathfinder International’s SCIP Project
- Protecting Parks, Empowering People: Innovative Conservation and Development Projects in Mozambique and Zambia
- Looking Back to Get Ahead: FEMA’s Strategic Foresight Initiative on Natural Disaster Preparedness
- A Global Thirst for Water Security
- From Alcohol to HIV/AIDS, Anita Raj on How Gender Inequities Affect Maternal Health in India
- Putting Mali Back Together Again: An Age-Structural Perspective
- What Rights? New York Times’ Discussion of Egypt’s Population Policy Incomplete
- Top 10 Posts for April 2013
- What Does It Take to Cooperate? Transboundary Water Management Around the World
- Jay Silverman on the Impact of Domestic Violence on Maternal and Child Health
- Lessons From Kenya and Malawi on Combining Climate Change, Development, and Population Policy
- April (23)
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- A Tale of Four Pyramids
- Band of Conflict: What Role Do Demographics, Climate Change, and Natural Resources Play in the Sahel?
- Clive Mutunga: Addressing Population Growth Can Build Resilience to Climate Change in Kenya and Malawi
- Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War
- Addressing Urban Environmental Health and Maternal Mortality in Developing Countries
- Assad Regime, Rebels, and Kurds Vie for Control of Syria’s Oil
- For Earth Day, A Commitment and An Invitation
- Eliya Zulu on the Integration Imperative in African Development
- Maternal Health in India: Making Progress in a Key Battleground
- Wilson Center Premieres ‘Healthy People, Healthy Environment’ and ‘Transcending Boundaries’ at Environmental Film Festival
- Infographic: Women, Reproductive Health at the Center of a Sustainable Future
- New Report on Effects of Environmental Indicators and Indices on Policymaking
- Steven Gale on Futures Analysis at USAID
- Once-in-a-Species Opportunity: For a World Free of Poverty, Seize the Demographic Dividend in Africa
- Linking Governance and Positive Maternal Health Outcomes in Africa
- Can Coffee Make Yunnan a Model for Chinese Agricultural Reform?
- Bouncing Back: How Do Population Dynamics and Social Cohesion Affect the Resilience of Societies?
- New Partnerships for Climate Change Adaptation and Peacebuilding in Africa
- Laurie Mazur: Build on Natural Tendencies to Strengthen Social Resilience
- Four Steps to Thailand's Demographic Dividend
- On Building a Better (and More Resilient) World: Complexity, Community, and the Precautionary Principle
- Top 10 Posts for March 2013
- Demography and Political-Socioeconomic Change
- March (30)
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- Environmental Security Goes Mainstream: Natural Resources and National Interests
- Family Planning an Important Component of Resilience to Climate Change, Says Roger-Mark De Souza
- After Cyclone Haruna, Blue Ventures Leverages Its PHE Program for Disaster Response in Madagascar
- Making ‘Healthy People, Healthy Environment’: A Look Inside Integrated Development
- River Erosion a Push Factor for India’s Bride Trafficking
- ‘National Geographic’ Reports on “Water Grabbers” From Mali to India
- Demographic and Environmental Dynamics Shape 'Global Trends 2030' Scenarios
- World Water Day Focuses on Cooperation in the Face of Growing Stress
- Imelda Abano on the Challenges of Reporting on Population and the Environment in the Philippines
- 222 Million vs. 233 Million: Measuring Global Unmet Need for Contraception
- Paradigm Shift in Chinese Environmental Sector Needed, Says Activist Wang Canfa
- UNEP Highlights Environmental Impacts on Health in Africa
- Power Shift Under Way As Middle Class Expands In Developing World
- East Asia’s Many Maritime Disputes and the Imperative of Energy Access
- Urban Health and Demography Trends: More Cities, More Problems?
- Demographic Dividend and the Rise of the Global South
- ‘Global Trends 2030’ Author Mathew Burrows Describes Demographic and Environmental Megatrends
- The Demographic Dividend in Lower-Income Countries and Global Reproductive Rights Laws
- Africa Can Help Feed Africa: Removing Regional Barriers to Trade in Food Staples
- In Uganda, Integrating Population, Health, and Environment to Meet Development Goals
- Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas Shows Detailed View of Global Water Vulnerability
- ‘Dialogue’ Interviews Caryle Murphy & John Sullivan: Saudi Arabia’s Demography & 2013’s Big Environment Stories
- After the Arab Spring, Challenges Intensify for Women in the Middle East and North Africa
- Jack Goldstone Discusses Future Demographic Trends: The Old, the Young, and the Urban
- International Women’s Day: Violence Pervasive, With Wide-ranging Effects
- Breaking Out of the Green House: Indian Leadership in Times of Environmental Change (Book Preview)
- New Water and Women’s Health Series by MHTF and WASH Advocates
- Top 10 Posts for February 2013
- Goldilocks Had It Right: How to Build Resilient Societies in the 21st Century
- Sam Eaton Describes Population-Food-Environment Links in Rural Philippines
- February (24)
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- What Could Sequestration Mean for U.S. Development and Diplomacy?
- Sequestration May Degrade Weather, Climate Forecasting
- Cleo Paskal and Uttam Sinha on the Geopolitical Implications of Climate Change for India and China
- The Other Migration Story in Mexico: Climate Change
- Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India’s Maoist Belt
- Janani Vivekananda on Strengthening Resilience to Climate Variability in South Asia
- Strengthening Responses to Climate Variability in South Asia
- Child Mortality in the Developing World: Hans Rosling Crosses the “River of Myths” Once More
- Mapping China’s Massive West-East Electricity Transfer Project
- Aging in the 21st Century: A Celebration and a Challenge
- Fourth Annual Call for Papers on Reducing Urban Poverty
- Peter Thomson on the Big International Environment and Energy Stories of 2013
- Avoiding the Resource Curse in East Africa’s Oil and Natural Gas Boom
- Sam Eaton on Food Security, Family Size, and Family Planning in the Philippines
- A Year for Cooperation, Not Conflict, Over Water
- Environmental Journalists Discuss the Year Ahead in Energy and Environment News
- Fishing for Families: Reporting on Population and Food Security in the Philippines
- Reproductive Health and Population Issues in the MDGs: An Interview With Stan Bernstein
- John Sullivan on the Year Ahead in Energy and Environment News
- When Does Oil Cause War? Petro-Aggression and Revolutionary Governments
- Malaria and Maternal Health: Treating Pregnant Women Reveals Need for Integration
- Learning From Failure
- Top 10 Posts for January 2013
- “Greening” the Military An Issue at Chuck Hagel Hearings?
- January (27)
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- U.S. Federal Climate Assessment: Energy, Water, Land Intertwined and Threatened
- Setting Development Goals for Population Dynamics and Reproductive Rights
- In Kenya, Water Stress Also Breeds Cooperation Between Competing Groups
- Planning for Complex Risks: Environmental Change, Energy Security, and the Minerva Initiative
- A Kingdom’s Future: Saudi Arabia Through the Eyes of Its Twentysomethings
- Across Much of China, Huge Harvests Irrigated With Industrial and Agricultural Runoff
- Indonesia: Stop Chopping, Start Learning
- Energy-Saving Stoves and Family Planning Benefit Women and Families in Rural Uganda
- Migration Flows, New Growth Demand New Ways to Do Urban Development
- Environmental Migration, Security, and Climate Change
- Building a Global Network of Maternal Health Policymakers
- Delivering Solutions to Improve Maternal Health and Increase Access to Family Planning (Policy Brief)
- Should Maternal Health Goals Be Combined With WASH?
- Seven Ways Seven Billion People Affect the Environment and Security (Policy Brief)
- Managing Mountains for Ecological Services and Environmental Security
- Super Typhoon Bopha Shows Why Developing Countries Are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
- Afghanistan’s Mineral Potential, Sustainability of Development Efforts Crucial Questions, Says Wilson Center’s Michael Kugelman
- Rio+20: Impacts and Ways Forward
- Measuring Sustainable Development in Ethiopia’s Guraghe Zone
- Five Questions for Population, Health, and Environment Projects in Ethiopia
- Stronger Evidence Base Needed to Demonstrate Added Value of PHE
- As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala’s Hunger Pangs
- How Does Climate Change Figure Into the Feed the Future Initiative?
- Tapping the Potential of Displaced Young People in Urban Settings
- Building Sustainable Cities in a Warmer, More Crowded World
- Global Warming Experts Should Think More About the Cold War
- Africa’s Urban Youth Cohort, and Women’s Health in Forest Communities
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- 2012’s Top Posts on the Environment, Demography, Development, and Security
- New Support for International Family Planning: The Significance of the London Summit
- ‘Dialogue’ Discusses Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change Perceptions in the U.S.
- National Research Council Produces Climate and Security Analysis at Request of U.S. Intelligence Community
- The Challenges of the 21st-Century City (Policy Brief)
- Beyond Carbon Credits: TIST Combines Reforestation, Health, and Livelihood Efforts
- Managing the Planet: The World at Seven Billion
- Colombia’s Unexplored Cloud Forests Besieged by Climate Change, Development
- Climate Change’s Impact on Human Development
- National Intelligence Council Releases ‘Global Trends 2030’: Prominent Roles Predicted for Demographic and Environmental Trends
- World Bank Issues Dire Warning About “Four Degree World”
- ‘The Christian Science Monitor’ Explores the Global Water Crisis: Should We Charge More for Water?
- Top 10 Posts for November 2012
- Water Scarcity, Agriculture, and Energy Are Focus of ‘Choke Point: China Part II’
- The Land Matrix Visualizes Ebbs and Flows of Global “Land Grabs”
- CCAPS Looks to Map Climate-Related Aid in Africa
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- Climate Change’s Health Impacts, and the Rights-Based Argument for Family Planning
- Linking the Environment and Women’s Health at the World Conservation Congress
- Considering “Soft Geoengineering”
- ‘The Global Farms Race’: Comprehensive Study of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions Launches at Wilson Center
- ‘The New York Times’ Highlights Converging Development Trends in Brazil’s Amazon
- Does Climate Change Kill Five Million People A Year? DARA’s 2012 Climate Vulnerability Monitor
- Feminized Development in Latin America: Understanding the Confluence of Gender Equity and Cultural Tensions
- India’s Environmental Security Challenge: Water, Coal, Natural Gas, and Climate Change Fuel Friction
- Ravao’s Story: A Health and Environment Champion From Madagascar’s Mikea Forest
- Edna Wangui on East Africa’s Changing Pastoralists
- Can Family Planning Save Millions From Malnutrition in a Warming World?
- Linking Academia With Policy: Youth and Land Markets in Urban Development
- Climate and Conflict in East Africa, and UNEP’s Plan to Avoid Future Famines
- Three Critical Maternal Health Medicines That Could Save Women’s Lives
- As Coal Boosts Mozambique, the Rural Poor Are Left Behind
- Top U.S. Leaders: Global Health Is a Bridge to Security
- What Next? Finding Ways to Integrate Population and Reproductive Health Into Climate Change Adaptation
- Joel Cohen on Why Students Should Consider Demography
- Overfishing Pushes 80 Percent of Chinese Fishermen Towards Bankruptcy
- Making ‘Beyond Seven Billion’: Reporting on Population, Environment, and Security
- Social Interaction Key to Urban Resilience, Says Harvard's Diane Davis
- Connecting the Dots Between Security and Land Rights in India
- Clean Cookstoves and PHE Champions on Tanzania’s Northern Coast
- Surprise Geoengineering Test Goes Forward Off Coast of Canada
- Linking Biodiversity and WASH Efforts in Africa
- Top 10 Posts for October 2012
- October (21)
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- Education as a Conservation Strategy – Really?
- From Dirty Wells to Endocrine Disrupters: Covering Women, Water, and Health at SEJ 2012
- Youth Bulge, Public Policy, and Peace in Pakistan
- Choke Point China Part II: Food Supply, Fracking, and Water Scarcity Challenge a Juggernaut Economy
- Kathleen Mogelgaard on How Malawi Shows the Importance of Considering Population, Food, and Climate Together
- Population and Environment in Saadani National Park, and Repositioning Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Repairs Could Stifle South Asia’s Water War
- Can Riots Be Predicted? Experts Watch Food Prices
- Programmatic and Policy Recommendations for Addressing Obstetric Fistula and Uterine Prolapse
- Who Are the Most Vulnerable to Ocean Acidification and Warming?
- Family Planning as an Investment? The Aspen Institute at the 2012 Social Capital Markets Conference
- 2012 Aid Transparency Index
- International Day of the Girl Child: Recognizing the Unique and Complex Vulnerability of Young Girls
- The Race to Harness Himalayan Hydropower
- Bridges and Bicycles in India
- Beer: The Perfect Illustration of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus?
- A Lake of Hope and Conflict
- Containing a Development Flood: Green Urbanization in Asia
- Immediate Action Needed for Gaza to be Livable in 2020, Says UN Report
- Maintaining the Momentum: Highlights From the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning
- Top 10 Posts for September 2012
- September (20)
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- Water and Land Conflict in Kenya in the Wake of Climate Change
- The Role of Renewable Natural Resources and Gender in Conflict
- Michael Klare on the Race for What’s Left
- World Contraception Day
- Green Solutions for Africa’s Urban Food Security
- Tracking This Year’s Extreme Weather
- After the London Summit on Family Planning: What Happens Now?
- Age Against the Machine
- Modeling Demographic Dividends, Fertility, and Income in Developing Countries
- Al Jazeera Maps Water Flashpoints Around the World
- Geoengineering Faces Dilemma: Experiment or Not?
- The Challenges and Benefits of Addressing Young Adolescent Reproductive Health
- Counting the World: UNFPA Highlights the Challenges of Census-Taking
- Ecological Footprint Accounting: Measuring Environmental Supply and Demand
- Why Mali Matters
- Regulating the Resource Curse: U.S. Adopts International Transparency Rules for Oil Industry
- Sahel Drought: Putting Malnutrition in the News
- Top 10 Posts for August 2012
- Nile Basin at a Turning Point as Political Changes Roil Balance of Power and Competing Demands Proliferate
- Changing Cities: Climate, Youth, and Land Markets in Urban Areas
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- As Urbanization Accelerates, Policymakers Face Integration Hurdles
- Should AFRICOM Leave Development to the Professionals?
- Iran Is Reversing Its Population Policy
- Coming of Age: Reason for Optimism in Burma’s Turn Towards Democracy
- Geoff Dabelko on the Evolution of Integrated Development and PHE
- Resource Revolution: Supplying a Growing World in the Face of Scarcity and Volatility
- Another Year, Another Debate: Is the Failed States Index Simply Misnamed?
- In Poor Countries, Is Lower Fertility Bad for Equality?
- Linking Extreme Weather Events to Climate Change
- Gauging the Impact of Warming On Asia’s Life-Giving Monsoons
- Stress Levels of Major Global Aquifers Revealed by Groundwater Footprint Study
- Inside U.S. Climate Security Policy: Geoff Dabelko Interviewed by ISN
- New Wilson Center Initiative on Global Sustainability and Resilience
- Silence Surrounds Pakistan’s Most Serious Threats
- Best of Both Worlds: Moving On, But Staying With ECSP
- Hans Rosling on Religion, Babies, and Poverty
- Taking On Domestic Violence in Post-Conflict Liberia
- U.S. Drought, Climate Change Could Lead to Global Food Riots, Political Instability
- Family Planning Saves Lives, Can Help Mitigate Effects of Climate Change
- Artisanal Gold Mining Threatens Riverine Communities in Guyana
- Population and Sustainability in an Unequal World
- PRB’s 2012 World Population Data Sheet
- Iran’s Surprising and Shortsighted Shift on Family Planning
- PSA: We're Hiring Two Program Assistants!
- Three UN Millennium Development Targets Reached and a Review of the Human Drivers of Climate Change
- Is This What Climate Change Feels Like? Geoff Dabelko on ‘CONTEXT’
- A Roundup of the ‘Global Trends 2030’ Series on Population Aging
- A World Without AIDS, Still Worlds Away
- Emmanuel Karagiannis: Mediterranean Oil and Gas Discoveries Could Change Regional Alignments, Global Energy Equation
- From Youth Bulge to Food and Family Planning, Los Angeles Times’ ‘Beyond 7 Billion’ Series Synthesizes Population Challenges
- Population Aging: A Demographic and Geographic Overview
- Top 10 Posts for July 2012
- July (30)
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- The Global Land Rush: Catalyst for Resource-Driven Conflict?
- PBS ‘NewsHour’ Reports on Reasons for Optimism Amid Niger’s Cyclical Food Crises
- Chaotic Climate Change and Adaptation in Fragile States
- New USGS Report and Maps Highlight Afghanistan’s Mineral Potential, But Obstacles Remain
- Urbanization and the Global Climate Dilemma
- Linking Water, Sanitation, and Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tobias Feakin on the Debate in Europe About Climate Change and the Military
- Open Data Initiatives at USAID Reflect Move Towards Collaboration, Enabling Efforts
- In Mongolia, Climate Change and Mining Boom Threaten National Identity
- Visualizing Complex Vulnerability in Africa: The CCAPS Climate-Conflict Mapping Tool
- Urban Resilience: What Is It and How Can We Promote It?
- Center for American Progress Takes on Climate Change, Migration, and Why They Matter to U.S. National Security
- ‘Motherland Afghanistan’ Shows Maternal Mortality Not Just A Health Issue
- Re|Source 2012 Conference: Global Fight for Natural Resources “Has Only Just Begun”
- Nine Strategies to Stop Short of Nine Billion
- Pop at Rio+20: Despite Failure Narrative, Progress Made at Rio on Gender, Health, Environment Links
- Local Experts Needed to Protect Congo Basin Rainforests Amid Conflict, Development Challenges
- Gates Foundation Spearheads London Summit on Family Planning
- World Population Day 2012: Looking Beyond Reproductive Health
- Chronic Crisis in the Sahel Calls for a New Approach
- Geoff Dabelko at the Aspen Environment Forum: “We Have to Find Ways to Do Things Differently”
- USAID Turns to Crowdsourcing to Map Loan Data
- Guttmacher Updates Unmet Need Estimates, and West Africa’s Demographic Dividend Examined
- UNHCR Report on East African Environmental Migrants: Long on Anecdotes, Short on Data
- Hania Zlotnik Discusses Changes to Latest UN Population Projections
- An Update on PRB’s Population, Health, and Environment Project Map
- Global Threats Exist, But Also Many Global Demographic Opportunities for the United States
- Top 10 Posts for June 2012
- Book Review: ‘World Population Policies’ Offers Sweeping Overview of a Complex Field
- Aspen Ideas Festival Takes on “The Population Challenge”
- June (29)
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- What Are the Most Important Factors in the Failed States Index?
- IPPF and Partners Connect Reproductive Rights With the Environment and Development
- Afghanistan’s Demography: A Bit Less Exceptional
- IFPRI Launches First ‘Global Food Policy Report’
- Poor Planning, Population Boom Stress Abuja’s Water System, Says Pulitzer Center
- Alexandra Cousteau on the Global Water Crisis and Choosing Between the Environment and the Economy
- Population Projections: Breaking Down the Assumptions
- Pop at Rio+20: Reproductive Rights Missing From Outcome Document – Assessing the Disappointment
- Climate-Conflict Thresholds and Water as a Casualty of Conflict
- Pop at Rio+20: Text Finalized, Population-Sustainable Development Links Left Out?
- Pop at Rio+20: Brazil a Model for Slowing Population Growth, Say Experts
- Pop at Rio+20: Favelas and Protests
- African Nations Pioneer Natural Resource Accounting With ‘Gaborone Declaration’
- Pop at Rio+20: Getting Women’s Rights on the Agenda
- Royal Society Launches ‘People and the Planet’ Study
- Pop at Rio+20: Cairo, Rio, and Beyond
- Burma at a Crossroads for Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance
- Sex and Sustainability on the Road to Rio+20
- Africa on the Move: The Role of Political Will and Commitment in Improving Access to Family Planning
- Gidon Bromberg at TEDx on Peacebuilding Through Water in the Middle East
- PHE and Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Stronger Together
- For Yemen’s Future, Global Humanitarian Response Is Vital
- Re-Thinking Price Shocks and Conflict?
- The Year Ahead in Political Demography: Top Issues to Watch
- Family Planning and Results-Based Financing Initiatives
- Republic of Congo Demographic and Health Survey Shows High Maternal Health, But No Fertility Decline
- Bringing Environment and Climate to the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Meeting
- Top 10 Posts for May 2012
- USAID’s New Global Health Framework and Delivering Equity in Health Interventions
- May (30)
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- Comparing Urban Governance and Citizen Rights in China and India
- Environment, Natural Resource Guidelines for Peacekeepers Moves UN Closer to ‘Greening the Blue Helmets’
- Full Extent of Africa’s Groundwater Resources Visualized for the First Time
- Digging for Crumbs: Michael Klare on the Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources
- Imelda Abano on Environmental Reporting in the Philippines
- Poor Land Tenure: A Key Component to Why Nations Fail
- Philippines’ Bohol Island Demonstrates Benefits of Integrated Conservation and Health Development
- Valerie Hudson and Chad Emmett: Women’s Well-Being Is the Best Predictor of State Stability
- Improving Food Security Through Land Rights and Access to Family Planning
- The Global Water Security Assessment and U.S. National Security Implications
- "Afghanistan, Against the Odds: A Demographic Surprise" Launches ECSP Report 14
- Sex and World Peace: How the Treatment of Women Affects Development and Security
- Adenike Esiet: Building Support for Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Nigeria
- ‘People and the Planet’ Study Re-Introduces Demography to Sustainability Debate
- Nigeria Beyond the Headlines: Environment and Security [Part Two]
- Nigeria Beyond the Headlines: Demography and Health [Part One]
- Population-Climate Dynamics: From Planet Under Pressure to Rio
- Pakistan’s Climate Change Challenge
- A Northern View: Canada’s Climate Claims and Obligations
- Learning From Success: Ministers of Health Discuss Accelerating Progress in Maternal Survival
- New Surveys Generate Mixed Demographic Signals for East and Southern Africa
- Bangladesh 2011 Demographic and Health Survey Shows Continued Fertility Decline, Improved Health Indicators
- The Future of South Asian Security: Prospects for a Nontraditional Regional Architecture?
- Taming Hunger in Ethiopia: The Role of Population Dynamics
- Population Changes Set to Remake Japanese Society
- Avoiding Adding Insult to Injury in Climate Adaptation Efforts
- Jack Goldstone on Post-Cold War Trends in Armed Conflict and Challenges for the World’s Youth
- Updates to African Conflict Database Give Researchers Access to Comprehensive, Near Real-Time Information
- Top 10 Posts for April 2012
- Nabeela Ali on How PAIMAN Is Improving Maternal Health in Pakistan
- April (31)
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- Richard Matthew: Responsive Peacebuilding Includes the Environment and Natural Resources
- Women’s Rights and Voices Belong at Rio+20
- Uganda’s Demographic and Health Challenges Put Into Perspective With Newfound Oil Discoveries [Part Two]
- Uganda’s Demographic and Health Challenges Put Into Perspective With Newfound Oil Discoveries [Part One]
- China and the Geopolitics of the Mekong River Basin
- Karen Newman: Rio+20 Should Re-Identify Family Planning As a Core Development Priority
- Aspen Institute on Women, Population, and Access to Safe Water
- Loaded Dice and Human Health: Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change
- Karen Newman: Population and Sustainable Development Links Are Complex, Controversial, and Critical
- Senate Hearing Focuses on Threat of Sea Level Rise
- In Building Resilience for a Changing World, Reproductive Health Is Key
- ‘Earth Focus’ Talks to PAI About Bringing Out Women’s Voices on Climate Change
- Megacities, Global Security, and the Map of the Future
- ‘Green Prophet’ Interviews Geoff Dabelko on Water Security in the Middle East
- Georgina Mace on Planetary Stewardship in a Globalized Age: Risks, Obstacles, and Opportunities
- Yemen: Revisiting Demography After the Arab Spring
- Neil Adger: Embrace Community Identities To Improve Climate Adaptation
- Geoff Dabelko On ‘The Diane Rehm Show’ Discussing Global Water Security
- Invest in Women’s Health to Improve Sub-Saharan African Food Security, Says PRB
- Responses to JPR Climate and Conflict Special Issue: John O’Loughlin, Andrew M. Linke, Frank Witmer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- After the Disaster: Rebuilding Communities
- Impressions of London’s Global Change Conference
- Reproductive Health an Essential Part of Climate Compatible Development
- Peacemakers or Exclusion Zones? Saleem Ali on Transboundary Peace Parks
- A New Land Security Agenda to Enable Sustainable, Equitable Development
- Serving the Reproductive Health Needs of Urban Communities in Nairobi
- Youth, Aging, and Governance: A Political Demography Workshop at the Monterey Institute of International Studies
- Natural Resource Management, Climate Change, and Conflict
- Responses to JPR Climate and Conflict Special Issue: Steve Lonergan (University of Victoria)
- Responses to JPR Climate and Conflict Special Issue: François Gemenne (Sciences Po)
- Top 10 Posts for March 2012
- March (29)
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- Responses to JPR Climate and Conflict Special Issue: Solomon Hsiang (Princeton University) and Todd G. Smith (University of Texas, Austin)
- Taking Stock of Past and Current Demographic Trends
- One Country, Two Stories: Marc Sommers on Rwandan Youth’s Struggle for Adulthood
- Much Ado About Conflict? Climate’s Links to Violence Reexamined
- Demography, Climate in the Spotlight at Planet Under Pressure
- First Impressions: Four Takeaways from the Global Water Security Intelligence Assessment
- Global Water Security Calls for U.S. Leadership, Says Intelligence Assessment
- Fourth World Water Development Report Released by UN
- PBS ‘NewsHour’ and Pulitzer Center Examine Water Shortage and Health Issues in Ghana and Nigeria
- Hotspots: Population Growth in Areas of High Biodiversity
- Food Security in a Climate-Altered Future [Part Two]
- Food Security in a Climate-Altered Future [Part One]
- Finding the Link Between Water Stress and Food Prices
- John Williams: Helping People and Preserving Biodiversity Hotspots
- Reflections on Women in the Arab Spring
- Kavita Ramdas: Why Educating Girls Is Not Enough
- ECSP Seeking Interns for Summer 2012
- Africa’s Demographic Challenges, Genderizing Food Security and Climate Responses
- Central Asia’s Dam Debacle
- Women’s Health: Key to Climate Adaptation Strategies
- Geoff Dabelko on Finding Common Ground Among Conservation, Development, and Security at the 2011 WWF Fuller Symposium
- Ethiopia Provides Model for Improving Climate, Other Data Services in Africa
- The Missing Links in the Demographic Dividend
- More People, Less Biodiversity? The Complex Connections Between Population Dynamics and Species Loss
- Reaching Out to Environmentalists About Population Growth and Family Planning
- How a Gold Mining Boom Is Killing Children in Nigeria
- Melanne Verveer and Others at Heinrich Böll Gender Equity and Sustainable Development Conference
- Top 10 Posts for February 2012
- Military-to-Military Environmental Cooperation: Still a Good Idea for China and the United States
- February (29)
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- USAID’s New Climate Strategy Outlines Adaptation, Mitigation Priorities, Places Heavy Emphasis on Integration
- USAID’s Donald Steinberg on Futures Analysis for International Development
- Programming to Address the Health and Livelihood Needs of Adolescent Girls
- The Sahel’s Complex Vulnerability to Food Crises
- Integration, Communication Across Sectors a Must, Say Speakers at 2012 NCSE Environment and Security Conference (Updated)
- The U.S. Military, Climate Change, and Maritime Boundaries
- Kaitlin Shilling: Climate Conflict and Export Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood (Book Preview)
- Championing Women’s Rights and Population Issues in Kenya With the ‘Reject’
- The Ramsar Convention: A New Window for Environmental Diplomacy?
- Taking a Livelihoods Approach to Understanding Environmental Security
- Dialogue TV With Sharon Burke, Neil Morisetti, and Geoff Dabelko
- Assigning Value to Biodiversity, and the 2011 Human Development Report
- Afghanistan and Pakistan: Demographic Siblings? [Part Two]
- Afghanistan’s First Demographic and Health Survey Reveals Surprises [Part One]
- Challenge of Making Climate Change News Sound Newsy
- ‘Marketplace’ and ‘NewsHour’ Highlight Population, Health, and Environment Program in the Philippines
- Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar Connect Family Planning With Environmental Health
- Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (Book Launch)
- Pop at COP: Population and Family Planning at the UN Climate Negotiations
- The Real Population Bomb: Megacities, Global Security, and the Map of the Future (Book Preview)
- Ryan Britton: Addressing Population in Science Media for ‘EarthSky’
- Saudi Arabia’s Youth and the Kingdom’s Future
- Papua New Guinea Youth Conflict Study Reveals Effects of Civil War on Young Men
- Water and Population: Limits to Growth?
- Securing Development and Peace in the Niger Delta: A Social and Conflict Analysis for Change
- Top 10 Posts for January 2012
- What Would It Take To Help People ‘and’ the Planet?
- Is Foreign Aid Worth the Cost?
- January (19)
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- Indonesia: Pioneering Community Outreach Creates Success Story
- Richard Black: Future Climate-Migration Interactions Will Stress Cities, “Trap” Vulnerable Populations
- Call for Papers: Reducing Urban Poverty
- ‘New Security Beat’ Is Five Years Old
- Move Beyond “Water Wars” to Fulfill Water’s Peacebuilding Potential, Says NCSE Panel
- UNEP Maps Conflict, Migration, Environmental Vulnerability in the Sahel
- Securing a Sustainable Future: The Military Takes On a New Mission
- Delivering Solutions: Advancing Dialogue to Improve Maternal Health
- New Research on Climate and Conflict Links Shows Challenges for the Field
- A Call for Young People to “Get Angry” About Global Warming
- ECSP at the 12th Annual NCSE Environment and Security Conference
- Jon Barnett: Should Climate Change Be Addressed by the UN Security Council?
- Iran: A Seemingly Unlikely Setting for World’s Fastest Demographic Transition
- Assessing Africa’s Youth Bulge
- Jon Barnett: Climate Adaptation Not Just Building Infrastructure, But Expanding Options
- Do High Food Prices Cause Social Unrest?
- Migration and Environmental Change, Minority Land Rights and Livelihoods
- Top 10 Posts for 2011
- Three New Reports Highlight Ongoing Significance of Youth Demographics in Global Trends
- December (16)
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- The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes
- Engaging Faith-Based Organizations on Maternal Health
- Managing the Planet: The Road to Rio+20
- IRP Editors Cover Rwanda’s Population, Health, and Environment Challenges
- Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues on Durban and the Role of Women in Combating Climate Change
- In Somalia, Beyond the Immediate Crises, Demography Reveals a Long-Term Challenge
- Climate Diplomacy in Perspective
- From Dakar: Explaining Population Growth and Family Planning to Environmentalists
- How Much Did the Climate Talks in Durban Accomplish?
- Pulitzer Center Launches Collaborative Reporting Project on Reproductive Health
- Watch: Dr. Vik Mohan on Integrating Family Planning and Conservation in Madagascar
- Famine and Food Insecurity in the Horn of Africa: A Man-Made Disaster?
- Can “Climate-Smart Agriculture” Help Feed Africa’s Growing Population?
- Climate Change, Uncertainty, and Conflict in the Niger River Basin
- Why South Asia Needs a Kabul Water Treaty
- The Legacy of Little America: Aid and Reconstruction in Afghanistan
- Youth Need More Information on Climate, Population Links
- Sanitation and Water MDGs in the Middle East and North Africa: Missing the Target?
- PHE Champions Bring Their Experiences From the Field to the International Family Planning Conference in Senegal
- New UNEP Climate Report Says Women Face “Disproportionately High Risks”
- Watch ‘Mother Jones’’ Kate Sheppard on Covering the Evolving Environment and Reproductive Rights Beat
- African Women, Most Vulnerable to Climate Change, Are Agents of Change
- Gender, Family Planning Should Be Part of Climate Discussions, Says Mary Robinson
- Compromise Is Hard: The Problems and Promise of REDD+
- Addressing Gender-Based Violence Across Humanitarian Development in Haiti
- New Population, Health, and Environment Program for Lake Victoria
- At Family Planning Plenary, Youth’s Messages Captivate Audience
- Reaching Rural Rwandans With Integrated Health and Livelihood Messages
- Top 10 Posts for November 2011
- November (28)
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- Book Preview: In ‘War and Conflict in Africa’, GWU Scholar Skeptical That Natural Resources Play a Leading Role
- The Yasuní-ITT Initiative Is a Practical Climate Solution That Must Be Embraced at Durban
- UNiTE To End Violence Against Women
- Supply and Demand, Land and Power in the Global South
- 7 Billion: Reporting on Population and the Environment
- Lifting the Veil: What Can We Learn From EITI Reports?
- George Washington University’s PISA Helps Share Rural Vietnamese Climate Adaptation Strategies
- Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: "The Threat From Above"
- Book Review: ‘Plundered Nations? Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction’
- Watch: Geoff Dabelko on Climate Adaptation and Peacebuilding at SXSW
- Geoengineering for Decision Makers
- Reducing Urban Poverty: A New Generation of Ideas
- In Colombia, Rural Communities Face Uphill Battle for Land Rights
- Jotham Musinguzi on Investing in Family Planning for Development in Uganda
- Food Security, the Climate-Security Link, and Community-Based Adaptation
- Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems: Results From a Public-Private Partnership
- Maternal Health in Kenya: New Research Unnecessary, Time to Address Existing Gaps
- Twin Challenges: Population and Climate Change in 2050
- Rwanda: Dramatic Uptake in Contraceptive Use Spurs Unprecedented Fertility Decline
- Watch: Ann Blanc on Finding Unique Partnerships to Address Maternal Health Needs
- Improving Maternal Health: A Conversation With Kenyan Field Workers and Policymakers
- Good Company: ‘New Security Beat’ Honored for Best Population Commentary
- Safeguarding South Asia’s Water Security
- Coffee Farmer and Extension Manager Promotes Improved Health and Livelihoods in Rwandan Coffee Communities
- STATcompiler: Visualizing Population and Health Trends
- New Report Launched: ‘The World’s Water’, Volume Seven
- Top 10 Posts for October 2011
- Bring the Water-Energy Nexus to Rio+20
- October (28)
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- Seven Ways Seven Billion People Affect the Planet
- Day of 7 Billion Puts Future Generations in Spotlight
- The Planet at 7 Billion: Lessons from Somalia
- Watch: Gidon Bromberg Gives an Update on Jordan River Rehabilitation Efforts
- How Did We Arrive at 7 Billion – and Where Do We Go From Here? [Part Two]
- How Did We Arrive at 7 Billion – and Where Do We Go From Here? [Part One]
- Watch: Understanding Peak Water Can Help Us "Avoid the Worst Disasters," Says Peter Gleick
- People and Wildlife Compete in East Africa’s Albertine Rift
- Peter Gleick: Population Dynamics Key to Sustainable Water Solutions
- Water and Poverty in a World of 9 Billion, Vulnerable Agriculture in the Niger Basin
- Sex and Sustainability: Reflections For My Son Nick
- Watch: Scott Wallace on the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes and the Intersection Between Human Rights and Conservation
- Health and Harmony: Population, Health, and Environment in Indonesia
- Rwanda’s 2010 Demographic and Health Survey Shows Remarkable Drop in Fertility and Child Mortality
- PHE Is One Great Idea That Won’t Be On the Rio Agenda, Says Roger-Mark De Souza
- Minority Youth Bulges and the Future of Intrastate Conflict
- Panetta: Diplomacy and Development Part of Wider Strategy to Achieve Security; Will They Survive Budget Environment?
- Jon Foley: How to Feed Nine Billion and Keep the Planet Too
- Lisa Hymas on Envisioning a Different Future With Family Planning in Ethiopia
- Silent Suffering: Maternal Morbidities in Developing Countries
- The Complexity of Scaling Up
- Strengthening the Voices of Women Champions for Family Planning and Reproductive Health
- Women and Water: Streams of Development
- Watch: First Impressions From the Inaugural SXSW Eco Conference
- Watch: Dennis Taenzler on Four Key Steps for REDD+ to Avoid Becoming a Source of Conflict
- El Niño, Conflict, and Environmental Determinism: Assessing Climate’s Links to Instability
- Top 10 Posts for September 2011
- Weathering Change: New Film Links Climate Adaptation and Family Planning
- September (26)
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- SXSW Eco Panel: Three Great Ideas That Won’t Be On the Rio+20 Agenda
- Aaron Wolf on Water Management, Agriculture, and Population Growth in the Middle East
- Women Leaders Urge Stronger Advocacy on Health and Public Policy
- Ethiopia’s 2011 Demographic and Health Survey: Remarkable Fertility Decline, Continued Rural Health Challenges
- Digging Deeper: Water, Women, and Conflict
- Remembrance: Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Linked Environment and Conflict
- Reproductive Health’s Connection to Global Problems
- Gates and Winnefeld: Development a Fundamental Part of National Security
- What If Experts Are Wrong On World Population Growth?
- Broadening Development’s Impact: From Sustainability to Governance and Security
- Perfect Storm? Population Pressures, Natural Resource Constraints, and Climate Change in Bangladesh
- Loren Landau: We Need to Move Beyond Traditional Views of Migration
- Babatunde Osotimehin Answers Seven Questions on Population
- Food Security and Conflict Done Badly…
- Development or Security: Which Comes First?
- What Somalia Teaches Us: Sanitation, Health, and Conflict
- Water: Asia’s New Battleground
- Debts, Deficits, and Development
- Rich Thorsten on Water Sanitation, Population, and Urbanization in the Developing World
- Family Planning and Seven Billion at the Aspen Institute
- Is it Time for Sustainable Development Goals?
- Watch: Don Lauro on How Integrated Development Deepens Community Involvement
- Family Planning Can Help in Afghanistan
- Top 10 Posts for August 2011
- Karen Seto on the Environmental Impact of Expanding Cities [Part Two]
- Karen Seto on the Environmental Impact of Expanding Cities [Part One]
- August (32)
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- Population and Development, Scarcity and Fairness
- Pakistan’s Biggest Threats May Not Be What You Think They Are
- ‘Dialogue’ TV: Revisiting Mr. Y and “A National Strategic Narrative”
- Certification: The Path to Conflict-Free Minerals from Congo
- Redrawing the Map of the World’s International River Basins
- What’s in a Name? Watch Don Lauro on PHE, HELP, and HELPS
- Youth Bulge and Societal Conflicts: Have Peacekeepers Made a Difference?
- IRP and TIME Collaborate on Indonesia’s Palm Oil Dilemma
- Kenya’s New Data Website Puts the Ball in Media’s Court
- The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Maternal and Newborn Health Care
- Improving Human Health and Conservation in Madagascar’s Forest Communities
- Public-Health Campaigns as Outsized Threats to Authoritarian Rule
- The Hungry Planet: Global Food Scarcity in the 21st Century
- Why Women’s Rights Are Key to Thriving in the Age of the “Black Swan”
- International River Basins: Mapping Institutional Resilience to Climate Change
- Next Step, Clean Up the Niger Delta: The UNEP Ogoni Environmental Report
- Benefits of Integrating Population, Health, and Environment
- The World at 7 Billion: Can We Stop Growing Now?
- Conflict Minerals in the DRC: Still Fighting Over the Dodd-Frank Act, One Year Later
- Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
- Fistula, Stigmatization, and Development
- PRB’s Population Data Sheet 2011: The Demographic Divide
- Watch: Aaron Wolf on the Himalayan and Other Transboundary Water Basins, Climate Change, and Institutional Resilience
- Beyond Supply Risks: The Conflict Potential of Natural Resources
- Backdraft: Minimizing Conflict in Climate Change Responses
- Sajeda Amin on Population Growth, Urbanization, and Gender Rights in Bangladesh
- What’s the Impact of Family Planning in the Developing World?
- Population, Health, and Environment Approaches in Tanzania
- Reducing Health Inequities to Better Weather Climate Change
- Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: What New Research Evidence Shows
- The Year of Drought and Flood
- Top 10 Posts for July 2011
- July (25)
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- The Specter of “Climate Wars”
- Watch: Alecia Fields on Population, Health, and Environment Advocacy with the Sierra Club
- Maternal Health in Kenya From a Human Rights Perspective
- Second Generation Biofuels and Revitalizing African Agriculture
- Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: An Overview of the Meetings
- Drought Does Not Equal Famine
- Farahnaz Zahidi Moazzam on the Population Reference Bureau’s “Women’s Edition” Trip to Ethiopia
- In Rush for Land, Is it All About Water?
- Indonesia’s Military and Climate Change
- Water, Energy, and the U.S. Department of Defense
- UN Security Council Debates Climate Change
- Failed States Index 2011
- Leona D'Agnes on Evaluating PHE Service Delivery in the Philippines
- Life on the Edge: Climate Change and Reproductive Health in the Philippines
- Pakistan’s Demographic Dilemma
- Watch: Michael Renner on Creating Peacebuilding Opportunities From Disasters
- Preparing for the Impact of a Changing Climate on U.S. Humanitarian and Disaster Response
- In FOCUS: To Live With the Sea: Reproductive Health Care and Marine Conservation in Madagascar
- World Population Day 2011: The Year of Seven Billion
- Watch ‘Dialogue’ TV on Severe Weather and Climate Change: Is There a Connection?
- Rare Earths No More?
- Double Choke Point: Demand for Energy Tests Water Supply and Economic Stability in China and the U.S.
- Consumption and Global Growth: How Much Does Population Contribute to Carbon Emissions?
- Women, Food Security, and Peacebuilding
- Top 10 Posts for June 2011
- June (34)
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- Quality and Quanitity: The State of the World’s Midwifery in 2011
- Nepal to East Africa: Population, Health, and Environment Programs Compared
- In FOCUS Coffee and Community: Combining Agribusiness and Health in Rwanda
- Ecological Tourism and Development in Chi Phat, Cambodia
- Watch: Demographic Security 101 With Elizabeth Leahy Madsen
- Why Fund Both Farm Subsidies and Foreign Aid?
- Watch ‘Dialogue’ TV on the Future of Women and the Arab Spring
- A Death Foretold
- Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development and World Hunger
- Food Security in Kenya’s Yala Swamp
- Watch: Richard Matthew at TEDxChange on Natural Resources, Conflict, and Environmental Peacemaking
- Enhancing Public Engagement in Climate Change: The 2011 Climate Change Communicators of the Year
- New Oxfam Report Tackles Broken Food System
- The Implications of Urbanization on Food Security and Child Mortality of the Urban Poor
- Will Expanding “Human Security” Really Improve People’s Lives?
- Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
- China’s Other Looming Choke Point: Food Production
- Finding the Right Paddle: Navigating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies
- Pakistan’s Population Bomb Defused?
- Watch: Catherine Kyobutungi on Monitoring the Health Needs of Urban Slums
- Helping Hands: An Integrated Approach to Development
- Global Climate Change Vulnerability and the Risk of Conflict
- Book Launch: ‘Human Population: Its Influence on Biological Diversity’
- Save the Date: “Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: What Research Evidence Shows”
- One in Three People Will Live in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2100, Says UN
- Aquaculture’s Promise for Food-Insecure Pakistan
- Watch: Younger Generation Will Prioritize Health, Education, Human Rights, Says Frederick Burkle
- The Future of Women in the MENA Region: A Tunisian and Egyptian Perspective
- Measuring Ecosystem Vitality and Public Health With the Environmental Performance Index
- Yemen Beyond the Headlines: Losing the Battle to Balance Water Supply and Population Growth
- Watch: Janani Vivekananda on Climate Change and Stability in Fragile States
- Yemen Beyond the Headlines: Governance, State Capacity, and the U.S.
- Top 10 Posts for May 2011
- Health Development: Providing Free Care and Overcoming Gender-Based Violence
- May (31)
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- Mozambique Coal Mine Brings Jobs, Concerns
- Yemen Beyond the Headlines: Women’s Health and Well-Being, Foundations of a Fragile State
- Admiral Mullen: “Security Means More Than Defense”
- USAID Egypt’s Health and Population Legacy Review
- The Truth About the Three Gorges Dam
- Environmental Action Plans in Darfur: Improving Resilience, Reducing Vulnerability
- Watch: Eric Kaufmann on How Demography Is Enhancing Religious Fundamentalism
- Biofuels: The Grassroots Solution
- Mapping Population and Climate Change
- Winning Hearts and Minds: An Interview with Chief Naval Officer Admiral Gary Roughead
- Bolivia: A Return to Pachamama?
- USAID, Muslim Separatists, and Politics in the Southern Philippines
- The Walk to Water in Conflict-Affected Areas
- Connections Between Climate and Stability: Lessons From Asia and Africa
- The Mineral Security of the United States
- India’s Quest for a Lower Carbon Footprint
- Watch: Edward Carr on Delivering Development and Rethinking Assumptions
- Ten Billion: UN Updates Population Projections
- Family Planning as a Strategic Focus of U.S. Foreign Policy
- Population and Environment Connections: The Role of Family Planning in U.S. Foreign Policy
- Report: Family Planning and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Reporting on Global Health: A Conversation With the International Reporting Project Fellows
- A New Security Narrative: What’s America’s Story for the 21st Century?
- How Does Organic Farming in the U.S. Affect Global Food Security?
- Population Growth and Climate Change Threaten Urban Freshwater Provision
- Designing Health and Population Programs to Improve Equity: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric
- Where Does It Hurt? Climate Vulnerability Index
- Managing Our Forests: Carbon, Climate Change, and Fire
- Accessing Maternal Health Care Services in Urban Slums: What Do We Know?
- Top 10 Posts for April 2011
- Coping with Change: Climate Adaptation Today
- April (30)
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- Watch ‘Dialogue’ TV on Integrating Development, Population, Health, and the Environment
- Watch: Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba on Population and National Security
- The U.S. Government’s Response to Disasters: Myth, Mistakes, and Recovery
- Watch: Addressing the National Security Implications of U.S. Oil Dependency
- Aspen Institute: The Revolution We Need in Food Security and Population
- Population Growth and its Relation to Poverty, the Environment, and Human Rights
- Making Life Easier in Rural Tanzania
- Overcoming Pakistan’s Demographic Challenges
- Is Universal Access to Family Planning a Realistic Goal for Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Dividend or Deficit? The Economic Effects of Population Age Structure
- Watch: Frederick Burkle on Lessons from Haiti and Professionalizing Humanitarian Assistance
- Our Shared Future: Environmental Pathways to Peace
- Integrating Development: A Livelihood Approach to Population, Health, and Environment Programs
- UN Releases Early Results of Global Population Projections
- Climate Adaptation, Development, and Peacebuilding in Fragile States
- PRB Discussion on Population and National Security
- Madagascar, Past and Future: Lessons From Population, Health, and Environment Programs
- In Search of a New Security Narrative
- Watch: Elizabeth Leahy Madsen Explains the Demography-Civil Conflict Interface in Less Than Two Minutes
- UK Helping to Relieve Climate-Related Stress on China’s Agriculture
- What “Lost” Cultures Can Contribute to Management of Our Planet
- Book Review: Envisioning a Broader Context to Security With ‘The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon’
- Innovations From Development to Delivery
- Watch: Dan Smith on How International Alert Builds Peace
- Tunisia Predicted: Demography and the Probability of Liberal Democracy in the Greater Middle East
- ‘The Fence’ on U.S.-Mexico Border: Ineffective, Destructive, Absurd, Say Filmmakers
- Biofuels: Food, Fuel, and Future?
- What’s the Link Between Population and Nuclear Energy?
- Top 10 Posts for March 2011
- Forest Conservation Method a Fit for Canada’s Oil Sands?
- March (33)
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- The Impact of Environmental Change and Geography on Conflict
- Book Launch: ‘The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security,’ by Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba
- Watch Michael Renner on Improving Environmental Peacebuilding by Moving From the Technical to the Social
- The Gathering Global Food Storm
- Building a Gender Strategy for the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health
- Integrated Approach Helps “Model Farmers” Increase Productivity
- Surging on a Knife’s Edge
- Watch: David Lopez Carr and Liza Grandia on Rural Population Growth and Development in Guatemala
- The Continuing Challenges of Integrated Development
- “Better Bang for the Buck” With the Population, Health, and Environment Consortium
- USAID: Maternal Deaths in Bangladesh Decline by 40 Percent in Less Than 10 Years
- Congressional Hearing: Clean Water Access Is a Global Crisis, Human Right, and National Security Issue
- China’s Green Five-Year Plan: Making “Ecological Security” a National Strategy
- Congressional Report: Avoiding “Water Wars” in Central and South Asia
- Somali Piracy Shows How an Environmental Issue Can Evolve Into a Security Crisis
- Managing the Planet’s Freshwater
- Make Sure Women Can Lead in the Middle East
- Watch: Roger-Mark De Souza on the Scaling Advantages of Population, Health, and Environment Integration
- Mapping the Hot Spots of the 2010/11 Food Crisis
- Rural Poverty: The Bottom One Billion
- Watch: Richard Cincotta on Political Demography and Unrest in the Middle East
- Engineering Solutions to the Infrastructure and Scarcity Challenges of Population Seven Billion (and Beyond)
- Celebrating Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things to Improve Gender Equality and Maternal Health Worldwide
- World Bank Pipeline Project in Chad Reveals Development Challenges
- Of Revolutions, Regime Change, and State Collapse in the Arab World
- Watch: Stephan Bognar on Integrated Development for Donors and Practitioners
- What’s Behind Iraq’s Day of Rage? It’s Pretty Basic
- Joan Castro on Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management in the Southern Philippines
- Carrying Capacity: Should We Be Aiming to Survive or Flourish?
- Youth Revolt in Egypt: A Country at the Turning Point
- Encouraging Childhood Education and Birth Spacing as an Approach to Conservation
- Watch: Sir John Sulston on the Royal Society’s People and the Planet Study
- Top 10 Posts for February 2011
- February (32)
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- ‘Dialogue’ Interviews International Reporting Project Fellows on Liberia
- Choke Point China: Escalating Confrontation Between Water Scarcity and Energy Demand Has Global Implications
- Mapping Demographics in WWF Priority Conservation Areas
- The Middle East’s Demographic Destiny
- Watch: Laurie Mazur on a Pivotal Moment for the Global Environment and World Population
- Deforestation, Population, and Development in a Warming World: A Roundtable on Latin America
- Coverage Wrap-up: Institutional Shifts, Development-as-Security, Women’s Empowerment, and Complex New Threats
- USAID’s Role in National Security
- Health, Demographics, and the Environment in Southeast Asia
- Watch: Geoff Dabelko and John Sewell on Integrating Environment, Development, and Security and the QDDR
- Promoting Family Planning and Livelihoods for a Healthy Environment in Uganda
- Civilian Power in a Complex, Uncertain World
- Can Women Help Make Peace Agreements Sustainable?
- Watch: Teaching Environment and Security at West Point
- Yemen’s Revolt Won’t Be Like Egypt or Tunisia
- Demographic Trends and Policy Implications in Northeast Asia
- Climate-Induced Migration: Catastrophe or Adaptation Strategy?
- Eliya Zulu on Population Growth, Family Planning, and Urbanization in Africa
- A Dialogue on Managing the Planet
- Food Price Shocks and Instability Highlight Weaknesses in Governance and Markets
- A Conversation on Art and Social Change
- Why the Poorest Aren’t Necessarily the Most Vulnerable to Food Price Shocks
- Reality Check: Challenges and Innovations in Addressing Postpartum Hemorrhage
- The International Framework for Climate-Induced Displacement
- First Steps on Human Security and Emerging Risks
- More on Tunisia’s Age Structure, its Measurement, and the Knowledge Derived
- ‘Blood in the Mobile’ Documents the Conflict Minerals of Eastern Congo
- Book Preview: ‘The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security’
- Mapping Muslim Population Growth
- Improving Health and Preserving Ecosystems in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Book Preview: ‘Environmental Politics: Scale and Power’
- Top 10 Posts for January 2011
- January (36)
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- U.S.-Mexico Cooperation in Renewable Energies
- A Lens Into Liberia: Experiences from IRP Gatekeepers
- The Age of Revolution? Demography Experts Comment on Tunisia’s Shot at Democracy
- Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
- Taiwan’s Birth Rate Lowest Recorded in History
- Watch: Joan Castro on Resource Management and Family Planning in the Philippines
- ASRI’s Integrated Health and Conservation Programming in Borneo
- Tunisia’s Shot at Democracy: What Demographics and Recent History Tell Us
- Water Security, Nonproliferation, and Aid Shocks in the Middle East
- Mapping the “Republic of NGOs” in Haiti
- China’s Biggest Environmental Stories of 2010/11
- Elizabeth Malone on Climate Change and Glacial Melt in High Asia
- Watch: Amy Webb Girard on Integrated Development Strategies for Improved Women’s Nutrition
- National Geographic's Population Seven Billion
- In FOCUS: To Get HELP, Add Livelihoods to Population, Health, and Environment
- Doing Research on Reproductive Health, Environment, and Security?
- Turning Up the Water Pressure [Part Two]
- Turning Up the Water Pressure [Part One]
- Haiti 2011: Looking One Year Back and Twenty Years Forward
- Watch: Cynthia Brady on Natural Resources, Climate Change, and Conflict at USAID
- Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Quantifying the Integration of Population, Health, and Environment in Development
- Women and Climate Change
- Civil-Military Interface Still Lacks Operational Clarity
- Integrated Development in PHE: Updates From Ethiopia and the Philippines
- UNEP/PCDMB Progress Report From Brussels
- Women and Youth in 21st Century Statecraft
- Watch: Annie Wallace on Connecting PHE Approaches With Climate and Poverty
- Abdalah Overcomes the Odds
- Peter Gleick on Peak Water
- Gender-Based Violence in the DRC
- ‘Clear Gold’ Report From CSIS
- A Crucial Connection: India’s Natural Security
- Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
- New Insights Into the Population Growth Factor in Development
- End of the Year Edition: Top 10 Posts for 2010
- Top 10 Posts for December 2010
- December (29)
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- December (28)
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- A Review of Brazil’s Environmental Policies and Challenges Ahead
- The Cholera Quandary
- Those Who Would Carry the Water
- ‘New Security Beat’ Goes Mobile and a Guide to ECSP Media Sources
- Maternal Undernutrition
- The Role of Population Dynamics in Climate Adaptation
- U of M’s ‘Momentum’ on Water Scarcity, Population, and Climate Change
- Watch: Too Few or Too Many?
- Demographic Security Comes to the Hill
- Judith Bruce on Empowering Adolescent Girls in Post-Earthquake Haiti
- The GRRT Toolkit for Humanitarian Aid
- The World’s Toilet Crisis
- Watch: Joel E. Cohen on Solving the Resource-Population Equation in the Developing World
- Whither the Demographic Arc of Instability?
- COP-16 Cancun Coverage Wrap-up
- Bringing Cambodia Back from the Brink: An Audio Interview with Suwanna Gauntlett
- Expanding Access to Maternal Health Commodities
- The Number Left Out: Bringing Population Into the Climate Conversation
- From Cancun: Getting a Climate Green Fund
- Hans Rosling Double Feature: ‘The Joy of Stats’ on BBC and Population Growth at TED
- Afghanistan’s Non-Confrontational Conservation
- International Responses to Pakistan’s Water Crisis
- From Cancun: Roger-Mark De Souza on Women and Integrated Climate Adaptation Strategies
- Nervous Neighbors: China-India Water Relations
- Empowering Women in the Muslim World
- Top 10 Posts for November 2010
- Managing the Mekong: Conflict or Compromise?
- World AIDS Day 2010: Not Yet in a Position to Say “Mission Accomplished”
- November (30)
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- Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia
- IGWG’s K4Health Gender and Health Toolkit Is a One-Stop Shop for Integration
- Climate-Proofing Development: An Interview With Karen Hardee
- PRB’s Jay Gribble at Kenya’s National Leaders Conference on Population and Development
- Food and Environmental Insecurity a Factor in North Korean Shelling?
- Watch: Blue Ventures PHE Program in Madagascar
- ECSP Seeking Interns for Spring 2011
- Robert Walker on Family Planning Promotion and Global Population Growth
- What’s Good for Women Is Good for the Planet
- Nigeria’s Future Clouded by Oil, Climate Change, and Scarcity [Part Two, The Sahel]
- Nigeria’s Future Clouded by Oil, Climate Change, and Scarcity [Part One, The Delta]
- Human and Climate Security in Africa
- Colin Kahl on Demography, Scarcity, and the "Intervening Variables" of Conflict
- Former Botswana President Champions Health, Governance Issues
- Poverty, Politics, and Pollution
- Governing the Far North: Assessing Cooperation Between Arctic and Non-Arctic Nations
- No Peace Without Women
- Yale Environment 360: ‘When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts’
- John Bongaarts on the Impacts of Demographic Change in the Developing World
- Where Have All the Malthusians Gone?
- Blue Ventures’ Integrated PHE Initiative in Madagascar
- The Ultimate Weapon Is No Weapon: Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace
- Demography and Women's Empowerment: Urgency for Action?
- Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
- Mapping World Bank-Funded Projects
- Tamara Kreinin on Women's Empowerment, Population Growth, and Sustainability
- Meeting the Health Challenges of the Urban Poor
- Rare Earths Intrigue: In Response to Chinese Ban, Japan and Vietnam Make a Deal
- Mobile Phones for Maternal Health in the Developing World
- Top 10 Posts for October 2010
- October (31)
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- PATH Foundation’s ‘Population, Health, and Environment Leadership as a Way of Life’
- Watch: David Aylward on How Wireless Technology is Changing Global Health and Empowering Women
- Energy and Climate Change in the Context of National Security
- Watch: Alex Evans on Natural Resource Supply and Demand, Scarcity, and Resilience
- Christian Leuprecht on Demography, Conflict, and Sub-National Security
- Rape, Resource Management, and the UN in Congo: What Can Be Done?
- Watch: Population, Health, and Environment in Ethiopia
- UNFPA State of World Population 2010
- Assessing Our Impact on the World's Rivers
- Barbara Crossette on UNFPA State of the World Population 2010 Report
- Laurie Mazur at SEJ 2010 on ‘A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge’
- Brian O’Neill: Population is Neither a Silver Bullet nor a Red Herring in Climate Problem
- New Study Finds Lower Population Growth Could Cut Carbon Emissions
- MDGs for Women Largely Unmet
- Meeting the Needs of Latin America's Rural and Urban Populations
- Youth on Fire at UN Climate Talks in Tianjin
- Admiral Mullen and the "Strategic Imperative" of Energy Security
- Welcome Back, Roger-Mark: A Powerful Voice Returns to PHE
- The “Condom King” speaks at TEDxChange on Poverty Reduction and a “9th MDG”
- Tracking the End Game: Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement
- Youth Delegation Makes a Splash at UNFCCC
- What You're Saying: Uncommon Discourse on Climate-Security Linkages
- Rare Earths Wake-Up, Aid Shocks, and the "Securitization" Distraction
- Wilson Center Scholar Huma Yusuf on Pakistan's Population Policy: Will it Work?
- Tackling Youth Unemployment, Instability in Kenya
- Nicholas Kristof on Maternal Health Challenges and Opportunities
- Choke Point U.S.: Understanding the Tightening Conflict Between Energy and Water in the Era of Climate Change
- Ethiopian Case Study Illustrates Shortcomings of “Land Grab” Debate
- Google Data Maps Development Indicators
- The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
- Top 10 Posts for September 2010
- September (30)
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- India’s Threat from Within
- Jon Barnett on Climate Change, Small Island States, and Migration
- Integrated Analysis for Development and Security Policymakers
- Pakistan After the Floods: A Continuing Disaster
- Syria: Beyond the Euphrates
- Apply Today: Deadline Approaching for Wilson Center Fellowship Applications
- Weather as a Weapon: The Troubling History of Geoengineering So Far
- Latin America’s Future: Emerging Trends in Economic Growth and Environmental Protection
- The Effects of Climate Change on Water in South Africa and Tibet
- Women, Water and Conflict as Development Priorities Plus Some Geoengineering Context
- Circle of Blue Launches ‘Choke Point: U.S.’ Series Examining Intersection of Water and Energy Resources
- Alex Evans on Resource Scarcity and Global Consumption
- U.S. v. China: The Global Battle for Hearts, Minds, and Resources
- UN Millennium Development Goals Summit: PHE On the Side
- Iraq: Steve Lonergan on the Southern Marshes
- Environmental Security Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
- Israel and Lebanon: New Natural Gas Riches in the Levant
- A Blueprint for Action on the U.S.-Mexico Border
- Joseph Speidel on Population, the Environment, and Growth
- Improving Monitoring, Transparency, and Accountability for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
- Climate Science, Military and Gender Roles, and the Tibetan Plateau
- Yemen: Population, Environment, and Security Collide
- Climate-Security Linkages Lost in Translation
- New World Bank Report on Land Grabs Is a Dud
- Saleem Ali at TEDxUVM on Environmental Peacemaking
- The Dead Sea: A Pathway to Peace for Israel and Jordan?
- GMHC 2010: Lessons Learned & Recommendations
- Top 10 Posts for August 2010
- ‘Watch Live: September 2, 2010’ Integrated Analysis for Development and Security: Scarcity and Climate, Population, and Natural Resources
- GMHC 2010: Maternal Health Realities: Accountability and Behavior Change
- August (25)
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- Iraq: Water, Power, Trash, and Security
- GMHC 2010: Empowering the Next Generation
- ‘NSB’ Blogs from the 2010 Global Maternal Health Conference in New Delhi
- The Complexities of Decarbonizing China's Power Sector
- The Future of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Tentative Fertility Decline
- When National Security Overlaps With Human Security
- The Feed for Fresh News on Population
- “All Consuming:” U of M’s ‘Momentum’ on Population, Health, Environment, and More
- Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Agricultural Sector
- Historic Floods Plague Pakistan
- Fire in the Hole: A Look Inside India’s Hidden Resource War
- Floods, Fire, Landslides, and Drought: The Guardian’s “Weather Crisis 2010”
- ‘Interview with Maria Ivanova, Wilson Center Scholar:’ Engaging Civil Society in Global Environmental Governance
- ‘UK Royal Society: Call for Submissions’ "People and the Planet" Study To Examine Population, Environment, Development Links
- Misguided Projections for Africa's Fertility
- How Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Impact Economic Development
- Flooded With Food Insecurity in Pakistan
- Land, Education, and Fertility in Rural Kenya
- “There Is No Choice:” Climate, Health, Water, Food Security Must Be Integrated, Say Experts
- Seven Billion and Counting
- Reform Aid to Pakistan's Health Sector, Says Former Wilson Center Scholar
- The Conflict Potential of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
- Boosting the U.S. Role in the Global Health Arena
- Top 10 Posts for July 2010
- ‘Restrepo’: Inside Afghanistan's Korengal Valley
- July (31)
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- PRB Maps the PHE World
- Ban Ki-moon: Natural Resources Should Be Part of Peacebuilding
- Interview With Wilson Center Scholar Margaret Wamuyu Muthee: Envisioning a New Future for Kenya’s Next Generation
- Drug Barons, Poachers, Ranchers, Oh My! Guatemala’s Forests Under Siege
- ‘Dialogue Television’ on Rebuilding Haiti
- Addressing Gender-Based Violence to Curb HIV
- Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman Finds the Real Culprit in Pakistan's Water Shortage
- Cleo Paskal: India Is Key to Climate Geopolitics
- A Return to Rural Unrest in Nepal?
- Stephanie Hanson Reports on PHE in Agricultural Development and Rwanda’s ‘One Acre Fund’
- WomanStats Maps Gender-Linked Security Issues
- Landmark Law Takes Aim at the “Resource Curse”
- Harnessing the Peace Potential of Youth in Post-Conflict Societies
- Chad Briggs: Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Climate-Security Issues
- Demographics, Depleted Resources, and Al Qaeda Inflame Tensions in Yemen
- In Pakistan, Clinton Calls for Human Security; USAID’s Shah Commends Birth Spacing
- In Kampala, African Leaders Discuss Maternal Health While Attacks Renew Concern over Somalia
- Local Case Studies of Population-Environment Connections
- ‘Dialogue Television’ Interviews Paul Collier
- Rear Admiral Morisetti Launches the UK’s “4 Degree Map” on Google Earth
- DRC’s Conflict Minerals: Can U.S. Law Impact the Violence?
- An "Aye" for an "Aye": Everyone Has a Right to Be Counted
- Stacy VanDeveer: Will Using Less Oil Affect Petrostate Stability?
- New Film Looks at Sub-Saharan Africa’s Unmet Need for Family Planning
- Time to Give a Dam: Alternative Energy as Source of Cooperation or Conflict?
- The United States and China: Clean Energy Friends or Foes?
- India’s Maoists: South Asia’s “Other” Insurgency
- Rough Waters Ahead: Our Changing Ocean
- USAID Head Calls for Integrating Health Services in New Global Health Initiative
- Top 10 Posts for June 2010
- Is the Third Pole the Next Site for Water Crisis?
- June (28)
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- U.S. Navy Task Force on Implications of Climate Change
- U.S.-Mexico Cooperation on Renewable Energy: Building a Green Agenda
- ‘Interview:’ Educate Girls, Boys, To Meet the Population Challenge, Say Pakistan’s Leading Demographers
- Interview With Wilson Center Scholar Jill Shankleman: Could Transparency Initiatives Mitigate the Resource Curse in Afghanistan?
- Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
- Cutting the Head Off Conservation
- ‘Dialogue Television’ Explores Pakistan's Population Challenge
- Brookings’ “Taking Stock of the Youth Challenge in the Middle East”
- Women Deliver in the Climate Change Debate
- Trillions of Dollars of Minerals? Misusing Geology and Economics to the Detriment of Policy
- Sustainable Development
- Protect Nature to Protect Us: Biodiversity and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Defusing the Bomb: Overcoming Pakistan's Population Challenge
- Women Deliver: Real Solutions for Reproductive Health and Maternal Mortality
- Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Gold Mine, Curse, or Illusion?
- Natural Resource Frontiers at Sea
- The Feed for Fresh News on Population
- Women Deliver 2010: First Impressions
- ‘The Plundered Planet’: A Discussion With Paul Collier
- Book Review: ‘Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do About It’ by Jeffrey Mazo
- Rare Earth: A New Roadblock for Sustainable Energy?
- New Security Challenges in Obama’s Grand Strategy
- VIDEO: Paul Collier On Romantics and Ostriches
- Shrinking Desired Family Size and Declining Child Mortality
- Improving Transportation and Referral for Maternal Health
- VIDEO: Family Planning in Conflict Areas
- Top 10 Posts for May 2010
- Voices of World Water Day: Water and Health
- May (36)
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- ‘Frontlines’ Interviews John Sewell: "Promoting Development Is a Risky Business"
- Can Food Security Stop Terrorism?
- USDA v. Taliban
- The Eye in the Sky: Using Remote Sensing for Population-Environment Research
- The Contradictions That Define China
- Visualizing Human and Natural Resources
- Urbanization, Climate Change, and Indigenous Populations: Finding USAID’s Comparative Advantage
- Look Beyond Islamabad To Solve Pakistan’s “Other” Threats
- Securing Food in Insecure Areas
- ‘NATO 2020’ Recommendations Avoid “New Security” Challenges
- 21st Century Water
- Political Rhetoric or Policy Reality? Tracking Trends in Environment, Peace, and Security
- The Feed for Fresh News on Population
- USAID’s Shah Focuses on Women, Innovation, Integration
- Interplays Between Demographic and Climatic Changes
- USAID Launches GeoExplorer: Connecting Natural Resource Management Activities, Practitioners, and Communities
- Coffee and Contraception: Combining Agribusiness and Community Health Projects in Rwanda
- Challenges Found in ‘The Places We Live’
- New Maternal Mortality Statistics: A Catalyst for Increased Investment
- As Somalia Sinks, Neighbors Face a Fight to Stay Afloat
- ‘Campus Beat:’ Finding a Home for Political Demography
- Population and Environmental Challenges in Rwanda
- Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina: Why a Melting Arctic Needs Stronger Governance
- New Research on Population and Climate: The Impact of Demographic Change on Carbon Emissions
- Want to Model Climate Change? There's an App for That
- The Food Security Debate: From Malthus to Seinfeld
- Deepwater Horizon Prompts DOD Relief Efforts, Questions About Energy Security
- Pop-Up Video: Cable News Covers PHE Connections
- Climate Security: Join in the Dialogue!
- DOD Measures Up On Climate Change, Energy
- The Feed for Fresh News on Population
- Population and Sustainability
- Philippines’ Bohol Province: Elin Torell Reports on Integrating Population, Health, and Environment
- Family Planning in Fragile States
- Thinking Outside the (Lunch) Box: Meat and Family Planning
- Top 10 Posts for April 2010
- April (32)
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- Food Security Comes to Capitol Hill, Part Two: Women's Edition
- Food Security Comes to Capitol Hill, Part One
- Parched and Hoarse, Indus Negotiations Continue to Simmer
- Paul Collier Discusses the Plundering of the Planet at the World Bank
- Climate Change and Gender
- VIDEO - A World of Water: Teaching Water Conflict and Cooperation in the Classroom
- Event Update: Sustainable Urbanization
- Water Scarcity in Dhaka: The Mess in Bangladesh
- The Feed for Fresh News on Population
- Sustainable Urbanization: Strategies For Resilience
- High Altitude Turbulence: Challenges to the Cordillera del Cóndor of Peru
- Climate Change and U.S. Military Strategy
- World Bank President: Climate Policy Is Not "One-Size-Fits All"
- Maternal Health Solutions in Peru
- Integrating Population, Health, and Environment in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains
- Shape of Things to Come: Uganda’s Demographic Barriers to Democracy
- Shape of Things to Come: A Demographic Perspective of Haiti’s Reconstruction
- ‘The Shape of Things to Come:’ Yemen
Why Women Matter for Demographic Security - Demobilized Soldiers Developing Water Projects – and Peace
- Book Review: ‘Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map’ by Cleo Paskal
- City Living: World Health Day 2010 Focuses on Urban Health
- Watch: Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba on Bringing Demography Into the Classroom
- SOUTHCOM Takes Disaster Response to Google
- Population, Health, and Environment
- VIDEO – Joshua Busby on Climate Change and African Political Stability
- To Invest in a Sustainable Future, Fund Voluntary Family Planning
- A Tough Nut to Crack: Agricultural Remediation Efforts in Afghanistan
- The Feed for Fresh News on Population
- Canada Flip-Flops on Family Planning, Will the G-8 Follow?
- Top 10 Posts for March 2010
- Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa
- Send in the Scientists, Says Finnish MP
- March (26)
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- On the Air With Arab Demographics
- Guerrillas vs. Gorillas in the Congo Basin
- The Plight of Urban Refugees in Nairobi
- Climate Change and Energy in Defense Doctrine: The QDR and UK Defence Green Paper
- Megatrends: Embracing Complexity in Today’s Population and Migration Challenges
- Maintaining the Momentum: Highlights From the Uganda International Conference on Family Planning
- Demographic Trends
- ‘Wilson Center on the Hill:’ Haiti’s Long Road Ahead
- The Feed for Fresh News on Population
- Energy Is a “Constraint on Our Deployed Forces”: DOD DOEPP Nominee Sharon Burke
- Is the Melting Arctic a Security Challenge or Crisis? The View From Russia and Washington
- Tapping In: ‘Secretary Clinton on World Water Day’
- Maternal and Newborn Health as a Priority for Strengthening Health Systems
- ‘A Question of Quality: ’ World Water Day 2010
- Imagine There Are No Countries: Conservation Beyond Borders in the Balkans
- Family Planning and Reproductive Health
- Climate Change: A Threat to Global Security
- Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment at Aynak
- A Forecast of Push and Pull: Climate Change and Global Migration
- World Bank Data Visualization
- Urbanization and Deforestation
- Green Objections to the Green Line: A Struggle for a Shared Environment in the Middle East
- Visualizing Natural Resources, Population, and Conflict
- The Diane Rehm Show Tackles Water Challenges With ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko
- Healing the Rift: Mitigating Conflict Over Natural Resources in the Albertine Rift
- The Top 10 Posts of 2010 (So Far)
- February (10)
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- Monitoring Resources and Conflict
- VIDEO – Juan Dumas on Natural Resources, Conflict, and Peace
- VIDEO – Ken Conca: Future Faces of Water Conflict
- Climate Change and Conflict
- Patriotism: Red, White, and Blue...and Green?
- Video—Ken Conca: ‘Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics’
- VIDEO—Daryl Collins: Portfolios of the Poor—How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day
- VIDEO—Pape Gaye: Improving Maternal Health Training and Services
- Point of View: Investing in Maternal Health
- Video—Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) to Conserve Ethiopian Wetlands
- January (21)
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- Gates: More Money for Global Health Is Good for the Environment
- Oli Brown on Climate Security and Environmental Peacebuilding
- Land Grab: Sacrificing the Environment for Food Security
- Peace Through Parks on Israel's Borders - Dream or Reality?
- Watch: Harriet Birungi: Challenges Facing HIV-Positive Adolescents in Kenya
- Collier and Birdsall: Plunder or Peace
- VIDEO—How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day
- Lessons from the Field: Focusing on Environment, Health, and Development to Address Conflict
- Challenges to Covering Population
- Water: The Next Climate Negotiation Tool?
- Water, Conflict, and Cooperation: Practical Concerns for Water Development Projects
- Human Resources for Maternal Health
- Walker's World: From Warming to Warring: A Review of Cleo Paskal's New Book
- Alec Crawford on Climate Change and Conflict in Africa and the Middle East
- An Island of Peace in a Sea of Conflict: The Jordan River Peace Park
- The Top 10 Posts of 2009
- Reforming Development: New Year’s Resolutions for Policymakers
- Welcome Back, Family Planning
- 2010: Worldwide Year of the Census
- How Copenhagen Has Changed Geopolitics: The Real Take-Home Message Is Not What You Think
- Making the Connections: An Integration Wish List for Research, Policy, and Practice
- December (28)
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- December (24)
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- ‘DotPop: ’ New Toolkit for Population, Health, and Environment
- Price of Coal Surges!
- ‘DotPop:’ Copenhagen’s Collapse: An Opportunity for Population?
- Eco-Tourism: Kenya's Development Engine Under Threat
- Science and Geopolitics in Copenhagen
- VIDEO—Alexander Carius, Adelphi Research: Finding Empirical Evidence for Environmental Peacebuilding
- Amid Blizzards, Protests, and Lock-downs, Population Gets Stunning Moments in the Sun in Copenhagen
- Integrating HIV/AIDS and Maternal Health Services
- Climate Combat? Security Impacts of Climate Change Discussed in Copenhagen
- Google’s Fight Against Climate Change
- The Ambivalent Security Agenda in Copenhagen
- Development Seeking its Place Among the Three “Ds”
- NATO Says Don't Fight the Planet
- Tackling the Biggest Maternal Killer: How the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative Strengthened Efforts Around the World
- Climate Reporting Awards Live From COP; Revkin To Quit NYT
- Climate and Security Hopes
- Nobel Pursuits: Linking Climate Efforts With Development, Natural Resources, and Stability
- Water Conflicts Enter the Fourth Dimension
- Climate and Security Comes to Copenhagen
- U.S. Policy on Post-Conflict Health Reconstruction
- VIDEO – Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) in Ethiopia
- Interactive U.S. Map Shows Population, Energy, and Climate Data by State
- UK Leads With a Military Voice on Climate Security
- November's Top 10 Blog Posts on the Beat
- November (19)
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- New Tool Maps Deforestation
- Too Much or Too Little? A Changing Climate in the Mekong and Ganges River Basins
- The Kids Aren't Alright: Surveying Pakistan's Youth
- Hot and Cold Wars: Climate, Conflict, and Cooperation
- The Campus Beat: Using Blogs, Facebook, to Teach Environmental Security at West Point
- UNEP’s David Jensen on Linking Environment, Conflict, and Peace in the United Nations
- Start With A Girl: A New Agenda For Global Health
- Traffic Jam: Gender, Labor, Migration, and Trafficking in Dubai
- Pakistan’s Demographic Challenge Is Not Just Economic
- Ethiopia: A Holistic Approach to Community Development Blossoms Two Years After Taking Root
- The Youth Bulge Question
- Covering Climate: What's Population Got to Do With It?
- Today: International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
- VIDEO: David Jensen on UNEP and Natural Resource Management After Conflict
- Climate-Security Gets "To the Point" Today
- Reporting From Kenya: U.S. Editors Cover Health, Environment, and Security
- The Future of Family Planning Funding
- VIDEO: Scott Radloff on Family Planning Under the Obama Administration
- VIDEO: Carol Dumaine on Energy and Environmental Security in the 21st Century
- October (15)
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- VIDEO: José G. Rimon on Key Trends in Funding Family Planning
- VIDEO: Cleo Paskal on How Climate Change Will Destabilize Energy Supplies
- Bringing the Climate Fight to New Battlefields
- Send in the Scientists: Finnish MP Calls for Assessing Toxic Waste Threats in Somalia
- Video: Laurie Mazur on Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge
- If It Bleeds It Leads: Pop-Climate Hits the Blogosphere
- VIDEO: Alexander Carius on Climate Change and Security in Europe
- Population’s Links to Climate Change
- Steady Drum Beat for Climate and Security Linkages
- VIDEO: Geoff Dabelko on Environment and Security at Society of Environmental Journalists Conference
- Teaching Demographic Security: Jennifer Sciubba on Explaining Population’s Conflict Links to Undergrads
- Missives From Marrakech: Growing and Slowing, and a Letter From the King
- Watch: Nicholas Kristof on Maternal Mortality
- VIDEO: Nicholas Kristof On Comprehensive Approaches to Family Planning
- Missives From Marrakech: Enter the Environment
- September (15)
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- Trees: The Natural Answer to Climate Change, Food Insecurity, and Global Poverty
- Missives From Marrakech: 50 Years of Counting. And Counting.
- Columbia University's Marc Levy on Mapping Population and Geographic Data
- Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation Bert Koenders on the Future of Family Planning
- Weekly Reading
- When Talking Copenhagen, Think Pinch, Not Scoop
- Running on Empty: Pakistan’s Water Crisis
- Wind Farms’ Dirty Laundry Aired in Mexico and the United States
- Combating Climate Change with Condoms
- Going Gaga Over Grain: Pakistan and the International Farms Race
- Weekly Reading
- The Creek Runs Black in West Virginia – and Dry in Mexico City
- Is the White Ribbon the New Black? Making Maternal Health Fashionable
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- Connecting the Dots on Natural Interdependence
- August (15)
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- Climate Change Is Linked to Security, But Don’t Overplay It
- Half the Sky, All the Promise: The Personal is Political in NYT Special Issue
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- Climate Engineering is Untested and Dangerous
- A Response to Will Rogers’ “Budgeting for Climate”
- Video: Roger-Mark De Souza on The Integration Imperative
- How Family Planning Meets Development Goals
- Weekly Reading
- Budgeting for Climate
- Demography and Democracy in Iran
- Copenhagen’s Chance to Reduce Poverty and Improve Human Security
- Weekly Reading
- Focus on Food Security as Clinton Lands in Africa
- Glaciers, Cheetahs, and Nukes, Oh My! EP in the FT
- Going Back to Cali--or Chennai: Cities Should Plan For "Climate Migration"
- July (17)
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- Senate, Pentagon Focus on Climate-Security Challenges
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- Who Does Development? Civil-Military Relations (Part I)
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- Weekly Reading
- Clinton, Congress Link Family Planning, Climate Change
- Summer in the City: Water Supplies Fall and Tempers Flare in South Asia
- 9.2 Billion Carbon Copies: The Impact of Demography on Climate Change
- VIDEO: Karen O’Brien on Human Security and the Climate Change Agenda
- Lithium: Are "Blood Batteries" Next?
- Weekly Reading
- Strength in Numbers: Can “Girl Power” Save Us From the Financial Crisis?
- Climate Disequilibrium Puts Human, Ecological Health at Risk
- Post-Conflict Recovery in Biodiversity Hotspots
- VIDEO: Neil Adger on Adapting to Climate Change
- Climate Change Threatens Water Supplies in Australia, California
- VIDEO: Dan Smith on Climate Change, Development, and Peacebuilding
- June (23)
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- VIDEO: Jon Barnett on Remembering REDD Realities
- Climate and Migration: Threat or Opportunity?
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- VIDEO: Geoff Dabelko on the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Conference (Day Two)
- Strategic Thinking on Climate, Conflict, and Adaptation
- Managing Environmental Conflict in Latin America: Resolution Rests on Inclusion, Communication, Development
- VIDEO: Simon Dalby on ‘Security and Environmental Change’
- VIDEO: Geoff Dabelko on the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Conference
- VIDEO: Jon Barnett on Climate Change, Small Island States, and Migration
- Science Diplomacy: An Expectations Game
- Weekly Reading
- Retired Generals, Admirals Warn of Energy's Security Risks
- Weekly Reading
- At Heavy-Hitting Conference, CNAS Launches Natural Security Program, Blog
- Conflict, Cooperation, and Kabbalah: Lessons for Environmental Negotiations
- The Scoop on Development Reform
- The Indian Ocean: Nexus of Environment, Energy, Trade, and Security
- Weekly Reading
- Climate-Security Links Recognized by UN General Assembly
- Wildlife Trafficking a Silent Menace to Biodiversity
- ‘Earth 2100’ To Explore Climate, Natural Resources, Population Growth
- VIDEO: Environment Key to Resolving Conflicts, Building Peace, Says UN Environment Programme Director Achim Steiner
- Hans Rosling Animates DHS Data, Moves Debate
- May (20)
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- Weekly Reading
- AFRICOM Steps Into the Spotlight
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- Climate Change Not the Only Environmental Problem, Says U.K. Environment Secretary
- Women’s Rights: A Silver Bullet for Development?
- World-Renowned Inventor Dean Kamen Talks Water, Energy
- The High Politics of a Humble Resource: Water
- Reforming Foreign Assistance: The Quest for the Holy Grail?
- Energy, Climate Change, National Security Are Closely Linked, Assert Retired Generals, Admirals
- Are Fences the Bridge to a Sustainable Future in Kenya?
- Weekly Reading
- Next QDR Could Include Climate Adaptation Measures
- Land Grab: The Race for the World's Farmland
- Weekly Reading
- Projecting Population: A Risky Business
- With Demography, the Devil Is in the Details—and the Assumptions
- Cowboy Logging to Carbon Cowboys: Natural Resources in Indonesia and India
- Under Secretary Flournoy: Climate Change, Demography, Natural Resources Pose Security Challenges
- The Challenge for Africa: A Conversation With Wangari Maathai
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- April (21)
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- Pakistan’s Daunting—and Deteriorating—Demographic Challenge
- Swine Flu Not Out of the Blue for U.S. Intelligence Community
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- Environmental Cooperation Could Boost U.S.-Chinese Military Engagement, Says ECSP Director Dabelko
- Food, Water, Energy, Timber, Population: Do Madagascar’s Forests Stand a Chance?
- Weekly Reading
- Climate Change and “Developed-Country Complacency Syndrome”
- China Eyes Expansion of Electric Cars, With Global Implications for Energy, Climate, Health
- VIDEO: Leona D'Agnes on Population, Health, and Environment
- Hardship in Haiti: Family Planning and Poverty
- In Dealing with Climate Change, A Role for Global Governance
- Water’s Role in International Development
- Reading Radar-- A Weekly Roundup
- From Assessment to Intervention: Redefining UNEP's Role in Conflict Resolution
- VIDEO: Steven Sinding on ‘Making the Case for U.S. International Family Planning Assistance’
- Former USAID Population Directors Argue for Major Boost in Family Planning Funding
- PODCAST - Forests for the Future: Family Planning in Nepal's Terai Arc Landscape
- At the Fifth World Water Forum, Africa Steps Up
- ‘60 Minutes’ Gives Community-Conservation Programs Short Shrift
- VIDEO: Duff Gillespie on ‘Making the Case for U.S. International Family Planning Assistance’
- Grassroots Efforts Help Achieve Population, Health, and Environment Goals in Nepal
- March (23)
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- VIDEO: Joseph Speidel on Population, Health, and Environment
- Green Advisers Assisting UN Peacekeeping Troops: Is the Third Time the Charm?
- In Yemen, Water’s Role in the War on Terror
- Weekly Reading
- In Uganda, First Trip for Journalists Bolsters International Reporting
- Teaching Geographic Perspectives on Environmental Security
- Water a National Security Issue, Says Senator Richard Durbin
- Weekly Reading
- VIDEO: Avner Vengosh on Radioactivity in Jordan's Fossil Groundwater
- World Water Forum Receives Icy Welcome From Protesters
- VIDEO: Gidon Bromberg on the Jordan River Peace Park and the Good Water Neighbors Project
- Weekly Reading
- VIDEO: Gidon Bromberg on the Good Water Neighbors Project
- New UNEP Report Explores Environment's Links to Conflict, Peacebuilding
- Specialty Coffee Project Brings Jolt of Attention to Agriculture, Health in Rural Rwanda
- VIDEO: Nick Mabey on Climate Change and Security on the Road to Copenhagen
- Weekly Reading
- Fallout From Jordan's Radioactive Water
- Video: Malcolm Potts on ‘Sex and War’
- Mind the Gap: Forging a Consensus on Security and Climate Change in EU and US Foreign Policy
- VIDEO: From Report 13 - Christian Leuprecht on Migration as the Demographic Wild Card in Civil Conflict
- In Land Grab, Food Is Not the Only Consideration
- Testosterone: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction?
- February (22)
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- Reading Radar -- A Weekly Roundup
- Rwanda: More Than Mountain Gorillas
- From Report 13: Watch Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba on Population in Defense Policy Planning
- East Africa PHE Network: Translating Strong Results Into Informed Policies
- PODCAST - A Discussion on Climate Change and Security: Arctic Links and U.S. Intelligence Community Responses
- Hot Water: High Levels of Radioactivity Found in Jordan's Groundwater
- East Africa Population-Health-Environment Conference Kicks Off in Kigali
- Weekly Reading
- In Kashmir, No Refuge for Wildlife
- New Director of National Intelligence Assesses Climate, Energy, Food, Water, Health
- Weekly Reading
- Pacific Institute's Peter Gleick Piques Interest With "Peak Water"
- In $800 Billion Economic Stimulus Package, Not a Penny for Family Planning
- Global Public Health: An Agenda for the 111th Congress
- For Many, Sea-Level Rise Already an Issue
- Weekly Reading
- This Just In: Panel Ponders Perils to Planetary Reporting
- Watch: Peter Gleick on Peak Water
- VIDEO: Kent Butts on Climate Change, Security, and the U.S. Military
- Developed World's Dominance Declines with Age, Say Demographers
- VIDEO: Jim Jarvie on How Humanitarian Groups Are Responding to Climate Change
- In the Wake of Conflict, Gaza Faces Severe Public Health Challenges
- January (17)
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- Weekly Reading
- VIDEO: Christian Leuprecht on Demography, Conflict, and National Security
- Human Health Dependent on Biodiversity, Argue Scientists
- Head of AFRICOM Discusses Civilian-Military Cooperation
- Reading Radar-- A Weekly Roundup
- Obama Mentions International Development in Inaugural Address; NGOs Rush to Respond
- In Rio de Janeiro, an Opportunity to Break Barriers
- Population, Family Planning Experts Urge Obama to Make Billion-Plus Investment
- Man vs. Wildlife: Now Playing in Southeast Asia
- United States Elevates Arctic to National Security Prerogative
- Egyptian, Sudanese Governments Stall Nile Treaty
- Weekly Reading
- Natural Gas Standoff Between Russia, Ukraine Brings New Meaning to “Cold War”
- The Air Force’s Softer Side: Airpower, Counterterrorism, and Human Security
- Weekly Reading
- Demography and "Aging Alarmists"
- ‘miniAtlas’ Misses Opportunity to Map Environmental Causes of Conflict
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- Could Threat of Regional Cholera Pandemic Finally Topple Zimbabwe’s Mugabe?
- The Biological Roots of Conflict
- VIDEO: Crisis Management and Natural Resources Featuring Charles Kelly
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- In Somalia, a Pirate’s Life for Many
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- Greening the U.S. Army: Report Calls Environment Critical to Post-Conflict Operations
- Food Production Goes Global, Sparking Land Grabs in Developing World
- South African Water Expert Suspended: Turton Tells Hard Truths – And Pays a Price
- Weekly Reading
- Sustaining the Environment After Crisis and Conflict
- Natural-Resource, Demographic Pressures Collide With Political Repression as Guinea Reaches Potential Breaking Point
- UC Berkeley to Open New Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability
- Coltan, Cell Phones, and Conflict: The War Economy of the DRC
- November (19)
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- Development From the Bottom Up and the Top Down
- How to Win (Green) Friends and Influence People (Who Are Interested the Environment)—Without Leaving Your Computer
- “I’d Like to Thank the Academy…”: ‘New Security Beat’ Wins Global Media Award
- Population-Health-Environment Effort Launched in American Samoa
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- NYT Magazine Features “Climate Conflicts” as One of 2007’s Ideas
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- October (11)
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- UN Highlights Climate Change-Security Link in Sudan
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- Climate and Security Meets YouTube
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- Saving the World
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- Pentagon Source on Environmental Activities
- Tackle Violence to Address AIDS, Say Experts
- UN: Environment Threatened in Post-Conflict Lebanon
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- Poor Aid, Trade Policies Can Undermine Security, Say Authors of New Volume
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