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  • Environmental Impacts of Household Size, Bringing Family Planning Outside the Health Sector

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    Reading Radar  //  March 13, 2014  //  By Paris Achenbach

    BradburyWhat are the environmental implications of changing household sizes? A recent article by Mason Bradbury, M. Nils Peterson, and Jianguo Liu, published in Population and Environment, analyzes data from 213 countries over 400 years and finds the average number of occupants per home tends to decline as population grows. This dynamic, they write, indicates that accommodating housing could prove to be one of “the greatest environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.” As countries develop and urbanize, “according to convergence theory, household size decreases (often from greater than five to less than three).” Other cultural shifts, like increasing divorce rates, urban sprawl driven by rising affluence, decreasing numbers of multigenerational households, and larger houses (in the United States, homes more than doubled in size between 1950 and 2002, according to the article) compound the issue. As population growth continues in parts of the world, these trends pose critical questions for conservation and environmental sustainability, since “households are the end consumers of most natural resources and ecosystem services.”

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  • USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah on Public-Private Partnerships and the Future of Aid

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    Friday Podcasts  //  March 7, 2014  //  By Paris Achenbach

    rajiv_shahWhat’s the best way for America’s chief development agency to help other countries reach prosperity and democracy? Increasingly, it’s creating partnerships not just with other governments, but with the private sector too, says USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah in this week’s podcast.

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  • Alison Brysk: Urbanization, Economic Change Hidden Drivers of Gender-Based Violence

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 28, 2014  //  By Paris Achenbach
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    Gender-based violence in developing countries is more than just a product of culture, war, extreme poverty, or historical patriarchy; it’s also a result of rapid economic change and urbanization, according to Alison Brysk, a fellow at the Wilson Center and the Mellichamp professor of global governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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  • Nat Geo’s Dennis Dimick on the Food-Water-Energy Nexus, Coal, and the Year Ahead

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 21, 2014  //  By Paris Achenbach
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    How clean can coal be? What is the future of food security in water-deprived regions, and how will that affect national security? Dennis Dimick, National Geographic Magazine’s executive editor for the environment, discusses some of the most pressing global environmental problems in this week’s podcast.

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