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New Architecture for a New World? Making the Millennium Development Goals...
Next year, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted by the United Nations after the Millennium Declaration, are set to expire. As they wind down, the global development community is taking...
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Population Dynamics Are Crucial to Sustainable Development – So Why Isn’t...
The original version of this article, by A. Tianna Scozzaro, appeared on Population Action International’s All Access blog. For the past 11 months, a group of United Nations member states has been...
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State of the Oceans 2013: Acidification, Overfishing Major Threats to...
“The rate of speed of change in the global oceans are greater than [that] of any time in known history,” said Karen Sack of the Pew Charitable Trusts, speaking at the Wilson Center on November 13. She...
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Bouncing Forward: Why “Resilience” Is Important and Needs a Definition
As policymakers respond to the threat of climate and environmental change, the concept of resilience has found itself at the center of discussion. Few scientists and policymakers, however, can come to...
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In Quest to Understand Climate Change and Conflict, Avoid Simplification
As the war in Syria shows no signs of letting up, a recent article in Middle Eastern Studies put forward the hypothesis that the brutal conflict was triggered by government mismanagement of the...
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Kathleen Mogelgaard: Four Steps to Better Link Climate Adaptation and...
Climate change vulnerability is closely tied to population dynamics, says Kathleen Mogelgaard in this week’s podcast. “We know that population size, composition and spatial distribution around the...
View ArticleAssessing Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation: IPCC Working Group II in...
The latest report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) brings new evidence to bear on the real and potential impacts of climate change, emphasizing the need to manage...
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High Food Prices an Unlikely Cause for the Start of the Arab Spring
Just months after popular uprisings toppled Tunisia and Egypt’s authoritarian regimes, a trio of complex-system researchers published a brief article linking these demonstrations with high levels of...
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Not There Yet: Burma’s Fragile Ecosystems Show Challenges for Continued Progress
Political and economic changes in Burma have been as rapid as they are surprising. In just three years, the country has gone from an isolated military dictatorship to a largely open country that is at...
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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programs as a Strategy to Advance Maternal Health
Of all the Millennium Development Goals, the maternal health and sanitation targets are among the farthest off track, said Rebecca Fishman, operations and special projects director of WASH Advocates....
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Oil in South Sudan: Turning Crisis Into Opportunity
Outside of donor and humanitarian aid, South Sudan’s economy is almost entirely dependent on the oil sector – and that sector is in crisis. After a unilateral shutdown of the industry by the...
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Time to Get Creative: Cold War Lessons for Climate Negotiators
You might wonder what the Cold War has to do with climate change, but as I listened last month to historian James Graham Wilson talk about the “triumph of improvisation” that ended the nearly 50-year...
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Nepal’s Micro-Hydropower Projects Have Surprising Effect on Peace Process
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment, which has been rolling out in stages since last September, confirms a crucial divide in current climate thinking: efforts to adapt and...
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To Build Resilience Through Development, Learn From Population, Health, and...
In 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. Today, there is new interest in...
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How Do We Bounce Back Better? 2015 a Critical Year for Global Resilience,...
According to NASA and a team of scientists from the University of California, significant portions of the West Antarctic ice sheet have begun an unstoppable slide towards oblivion, slowly melting in...
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No REDD+ Program Is an Island: Integrating Gender Into Forest Conservation...
Since 2005, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program (REDD+) has functioned as a mechanism to financially incentivize the preservation of forestlands in order to reduce...
View ArticleSeven 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. World Population...
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Investing in the Leaders of Tomorrow: World Population Day 2014
World Population Day began in 1987 after public imagination was sparked by the idea that there could be 5 billion people on Earth. Today, we’re well past 7 billion and according to the latest UN...
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Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Recovery: Learning From Post-Conflict...
“Environmental specialists need to change,” said Anita van Breda at the Wilson Center on June 25. “In the new normal, our work has to have a different relevancy.” [Video Below] Events like Typhoon...
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The Politics of Food Technology Innovation for Africa
The original version of this article, by Lisa Palmer, appeared on Future Food 2050. As a boy growing up on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, Harvard international development professor Calestous...
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