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  • The Future of the Sustainable Development Goals

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    From the Wilson Center  //  May 18, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook

    Iron and Steel giant ISKOR's Vanderbijl Park refinery. Farm land bordering the industrial area.

    “As we go forward, we will discover that 2015 was when we really started getting serious about transdisciplinary challenges inherent in sustainable development,” said Melinda Kimble, senior vice president for programs at the UN Foundation, at the Wilson Center on April 13. [Video Below]

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  • How Effective Is the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative? And a Transatlantic Food Security Strategy

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    April 28, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook

    EITI ImageSovacool et al. in a study published in World Development compare the performance of the first 16 member countries of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to their performance before membership and to other non-member countries and find little difference in most governance and economic development categories.

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  • Pathways to Resilience: Evidence on Links Between Conflict Management, Natural Resources, and Food Security

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    From the Wilson Center  //  April 26, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook
    food for peace

    In 2015, the NGO Mercy Corps released some surprising findings from conflict management programs in the Horn of Africa. Interventions from 2013 to 2015 focused on building community-level cooperation, strengthening institutions, and enhancing resilience. The results indicate that natural resource management can be a key governance pillar to build around and that such cooperation can strengthen household resilience to climate and food security shocks. [Video Below]

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  • Global Stories From the Nexus of Gender and Climate Change Vulnerability

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    March 21, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook
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    Developing countries are in a pitched fight against the effects of climate change, and women, playing prominent roles in agriculture and household resource collection, are “at the front lines in the battle,” writes UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, in a new report.

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  • 4 Billion Face Regular Water Scarcity, and Three Climate Conflict Narratives

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    Reading Radar  //  February 25, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook

    In a study published in Science Advances, Mesfin M. Mekonnen and Arjen Y. Hoekstra estimate that over 4 billion people, approximately two-thirds of the world’s population, face severe water scarcity for at least one month out of the year – far greater than previous estimates of between 1.7 billion and 3.1 billion. The authors examined global water scarcity data from 1996 to 2005 on a monthly basis and at a more localized resolution to show how water scarcity affects different places at different times of year.

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  • What’s Next? A Report Out From the First Planetary Security Conference

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    February 18, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook

    In November 2015, experts from a variety of fields gathered at the Peace Palace in The Hague for the Planetary Security Conference, one of the first large-scale conferences on environmental security and what is hoped to be the start of an annual series. The conference report gives a sense of the diverse discussions held in the Netherlands.

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  • Water and Security Hotspots to Watch in 2016 [Infographic]

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    Eye On  //  February 15, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook
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    The ongoing violence in Syria exhibits the potential for water problems – a historic drought, in this case – to exacerbate existing social and political problems and contribute to humanitarian crises. In a recently released infographic, Circle of Blue combined data from the European Commission Joint Research Center’s Global Conflict Risk Index and the World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas to identify 10 hotspots around the world where water “could play a role in developing or exacerbating humanitarian crises” in 2016.

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  • Climate Change, Disasters, and Security: Unconventional Approaches to Building Stability

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    From the Wilson Center  //  February 8, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook
    PACOM Nepal relief

    It is “not sufficient to look at history for lessons on how we should prepare for and prevent future security risks in a climate change world,” said Swathi Veeravalli, research scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Geospatial Research Laboratory, at the Wilson Center on January 14. Climate change and the extreme weather events it brings pose an “unprecedented” threat to human security. [Video Below]

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