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A New Population Paradigm? Wolfgang Lutz on the “Education Effect”
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If you want to understand global population dynamics, you have to look past quantity and look at quality, says Wolfgang Lutz, founding director of the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital, in this week’s podcast.
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A Reset for International Development? UN Debates What to Include in Sustainable Development Goals
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The 69th UN General Assembly was “an absolutely extraordinary opportunity” to rethink global development, said Genevieve Maricle, a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Social and Economic Council (ECOSOC) who participated in the summit. [Video Below]
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Exhausting the Planet: Jonathan Foley on Balancing Food Security With Environmental Sustainability
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“We’re living in a time of unprecedented change,” says Jonathan Foley, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences.
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Caroline Savitzky: Surge of Interest in Population, Health, and Environment Development in Madagascar
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The past year brought not only an end to political instability in Madagascar but a new surge of interest in integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) development, says Caroline Savitzky of Blue Ventures in this week’s podcast.
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UK Global Trends Report Forecasts Security Threats in Face of Growth, Climate and Technological Change
›October 22, 2014 // By Heather Randall
By 2045, global population will be north of 9 billion with increased urbanization and migration, natural resource stress, improved medical technologies, greater use of robotic labor, and a shift towards lifelong (and increasingly online) learning, according to a recent report from the UK Ministry of Defense.
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The Making of a Tragedy: Inequality, Mistrust, Environmental Change Drive Ebola Epidemic
›October 9, 2014 // By Laurie Mazur
In August, armed men stormed an Ebola clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, releasing infected patients and stealing contaminated bedding. The following month, eight health workers were attacked and killed in a Guinean village as they tried to educate residents about the deadly disease; their bodies were found in a village latrine. Days later, Red Cross workers in western Guinea were assaulted as they tried to collect and bury Ebola victims.
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New Network Links Madagascar’s Environment and Health Sectors
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As the international community seeks to articulate a collective vision for sustainable development following the Millennium Development Goals, a vibrant new network has emerged in Madagascar to advance integrated population, health and environment (PHE) initiatives across this island nation.
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Wael Hmaidan: Development Goals Unattainable Without Addressing Climate Change
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When it comes to sustainable development, not all goals are created equal, says Wael Hmaidan, the director of Climate Action Network International, in this week’s podcast. Climate change “intersects everything we do,” he says, but is underrepresented in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a global development agenda being drafted to replace the Millennium Development Goals next year.
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