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Family Planning and Environmental Sustainability Assessment Aims to Shed Light on Pop-Environment Link
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As global environmental change accelerates, understanding how population dynamics affect the environment is more important than ever. It seems obvious that human-caused climate change has at least something to do with the quadrupling of world population over the last 100 years.
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Seven Billion People, One Planet: Roger-Mark De Souza on Empowering Young People
›“Population is critical to thinking about sustainability and human wellbeing, and how we live and subsist on the planet,” says ECSP’s Roger-Mark De Souza on this World Population Day.
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From the PHE Conference in Addis Ababa, a Progress Report on Integrated Development
›My grandmother was pleased when I told her I was heading to Ethiopia last November for an international conference focused on population, health, and the environment.
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Special Issue of ‘Reproductive Health Matters’ Highlights Integrated Development, Resilience Efforts
›The May edition of Reproductive Health Matters is a special edition on sustainable development and reproductive health and rights. Our own Roger-Mark De Souza writes that in the quest to build resilience, development practitioners can learn from integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs. -
Partnering on Climate Change Adaptation, Peacebuilding, and Population in Africa
›June 12, 2014 // By Lauren Herzer RisiRapid population growth can be a contributing factor to climate change vulnerability and should be considered in climate adaptation and peacebuilding efforts, said the Wilson Center’s Roger-Mark De Souza at a workshop on climate change adaptation and peacebuilding hosted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Addis Ababa.
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CNN Profiles the Work of Conservation Through Public Health in Uganda
›Reporting on long-term, complex human-environment interactions can be daunting. As the saying goes, “if it bleeds, it leads,” and slow, sometimes-distant changes rarely make headlines. Yet, earlier this year CNN International’s African Voices program took a stab at it, diving into the world of integrated development in a three-part profile of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), a Ugandan NGO that is working to preserve one of Central Africa’s most important biodiversity hotspots while strengthening the health and wellbeing of nearby communities.
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To Build Resilience Through Development, Learn From Population, Health, and Environment Programs
›May 19, 2014 // By Laurie MazurIn an era defined by climate change and other disruptions, “resilience” – the capacity to survive and thrive in times of crisis and change – is increasingly essential.
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The Future of Population Funding in the U.S.: Mixed Prospects for Foundation Support
›May 12, 2014 // By Laurie MazurWorld population continues its steady climb, surpassing 7 billion in 2011 and heading to somewhere between 8 and 11 billion by midcentury. But funding to address population-related issues is moving in the opposite direction.
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