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Integrated Development Programs Work to Expand Conservation and Health Efforts in Uganda and Madagascar
›As is becoming clear, climate change, environmental degradation, population, and poverty alleviation are inextricably linked in many parts of the world. [Video Below]
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Earth Pushes Back: Era of Indifference Greets Droughts, Floods, Storms, Tsunamis
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A New Population Paradigm? Wolfgang Lutz on the “Education Effect”
›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
›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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What’s Next? Two Decades Tracking the Environment-Security-Population Nexus
›Global crises like the Ebola outbreak force us to consider what “security” really means, said Sharon Burke, senior advisor for the New America Foundation. “Is security getting our kids to school and food on the table…or are you talking about military security and defense threats that require a weapon to counter?”
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Exhausting the Planet: Jonathan Foley on Balancing Food Security With Environmental Sustainability
›“We’re living in a time of unprecedented change,” says Jonathan Foley, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences.
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Innovative Technology and Trainings Empower New Generation of Midwives
›Imagine you are a physician working in a rural health center in a developing country. You’re helping a woman deliver her baby, and it’s just arrived but is not breathing. Meanwhile, the mother has started to hemorrhage. You’re the only one working in the clinic that day, and many life-saving treatments need to start within one minute. You have 60 seconds to make decisions that could cost the lives of two people. [Video Below]
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Can We Forecast Where Water Conflicts Are Likely to Occur?
›Many of the world’s freshwater systems reach across national boundaries, and growing demands combined with supply constraints may lead to increased potential for international water conflicts. If that’s the case, which international river basins are most at risk of conflict or, conversely, which are most prone to cooperation? What are the factors that increase or decrease conflict risk?
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