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  • Earth Pushes Back: Era of Indifference Greets Droughts, Floods, Storms, Tsunamis

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    Choke Point  //  November 10, 2014  //  By Keith Schneider
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    The original version of this article appeared on Circle of Blue.

    There’s nothing demur about Mother Earth these days. She’s fuming and pushing back hard. Very hard.

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  • UK Global Trends Report Forecasts Security Threats in Face of Growth, Climate and Technological Change

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    October 22, 2014  //  By Heather Randall
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    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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  • Hydro-Diplomacy Can Build Peace Over Shared Waters, But Needs More Support

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 22, 2014  //  By Benjamin Pohl & Susanne Schmeier
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    From Ukraine and the Middle East to sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia, the world is engulfed in a series of significant international crises. But despite such urgent issues, it would be a grave mistake to forget about the structural foreign policy challenges – such as access to water – that could become the crises of the future.

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  • Book Review: ‘Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources’

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    August 18, 2014  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
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    The original version of this article appeared on Americas Quarterly.

    Since the early 1990s, the rising price of crude oil and other key natural resources – and the resulting drive by governments and private companies to extract those resources – has led to sharp conflicts in Latin America. At the core of these disputes is the clash between national economic interest and the rights of indigenous people inhabiting the land where most natural resources are located.

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  • No REDD+ Program Is an Island: Integrating Gender Into Forest Conservation Efforts

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 25, 2014  //  By Donald Borenstein

    Nepalese women carry wood harvested sustainably from a forest.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 greenhouse gas emissions. But beyond its original use, some organizations have also started exploring ways it can help with other development initiatives, like women’s empowerment. [Video Below]

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  • Dawn of the Smart City? Perspectives From New York, Ahmedabad, São Paulo, and Beijing (Report Launch)

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 19, 2014  //  By Schuyler Null
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    Rapid growth and environmental change are creating new challenges for urban areas around the world. By 2050, as many as 7 out of 10 people on Earth will live in cities, with the vast majority of growth occurring in today’s developing countries. [Video Below]

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  • Unveiling the Dark Places: Urbanization, Economic Change, and Gender-Based Violence

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    From the Wilson Center  //  March 12, 2014  //  By Moses Jackson
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    “If there was a perfect slum, Kibera would be it.” The notoriously overcrowded and underserved settlement in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi captivates the public imagination, engendering visions of urban violence, poverty, and hopelessness, said Caroline Wanjiku Kihato of the University of the Witwatersrand at the Wilson Center on February 18. The area was ravaged by ethnic violence that erupted across the country following Kenya’s disputed 2007 elections, pitting neighbor against neighbor in tribal clashes that killed more than 1,000 people, displaced many thousands more, and provoked an alarming surge in sexual violence.

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  • Climate Change and National Security in an Age of Austerity: The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review

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    March 7, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond
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    Earlier this week, the Department of Defense released its first Quadrennial Defense Review since fiscal cliffs, shutdowns, and spending cuts hit the federal government. Not surprisingly, “austerity” shows up in almost every chapter of the report. What shows up even more? Climate change. For the second QDR in a row, the Pentagon has called out climate change as a “significant challenge for the United States and the world at large.”

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