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  • Lessons From Africa’s Great Lakes on How to Address Migration

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 1, 2016  //  By Alec Crawford & Angie Dazé
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    Migration is an important strategy for coping with environmental variability and change, but it can also place additional stress on ecosystems. Policymakers and practitioners are not always fully aware of these threats, nor fully prepared to manage them through appropriate interventions. Conservation professionals in the field therefore have a key role to play in reducing the harmful impacts that migration can have on the environment, and in mitigating any tensions that may emerge between migrant and host communities.

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  • Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue

    Durban’s Decentralized Water and Sanitation System Sets Global Standard

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    Choke Point  //  February 17, 2016  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Keith Schneider, appeared on Circle of Blue.

    DURBAN, South Africa — Arguably the most elegant aspect of an inelegant subject is how this city of 3.2 million residents, South Africa’s second largest, is solving monumental water and waste challenges in its jammed informal settlements.

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  • Making Nunavut a Full Partner in Canadian Confederation

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    From the Wilson Center  //  February 16, 2016  //  By Anthony Speca
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    The original version of this article appeared as a Polar Initiative policy brief.

    Canada is well known as a world leader in measures of human wellbeing. Since the launch of the UN Human Development Index in 1990, Canada has ranked among the top 10 countries every single year except one. But though Canadians can take a just pride in their country’s achievement on the global stage, it nevertheless masks grave concerns at home.

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  • Jagdish Upadhyay: Don’t Wait for the Demographic Dividend, Seize It

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 5, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    jagdish-small“The demographic dividend is about inclusive growth, not just economic growth,” says Jagdish Upadhyay, chief of commodity security at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in this week’s podcast. “If it’s not inclusive, achieving the demographic dividend will be difficult.”

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  • Adapting to Climate Change in Cities May Require a Major Rethink

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 1, 2016  //  By Linda Shi
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    Around the world, urbanization and climate change are transforming societies and environments, and the stakes could not be higher for the poor and marginalized. The 2015 UN climate conference in Paris (COP-21) highlighted the need for coordinated action to address the profound injustice of the world’s most disadvantaged people bearing the greatest costs of climate impacts. Among those at the COP were mayors from around the world advocating for the important role of cities in these efforts.

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  • Zika Virus Prompts El Salvador and Others to Discourage Pregnancy – What Are the Potential Consequences?

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 29, 2016  //  By Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba
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    The government of El Salvador took a truly extraordinary step in an attempt to control the rapidly spreading Zika virus last week by asking its citizens to avoid getting pregnant from now until 2018. Yes, you read that right.

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  • Can Myanmar Avoid Conflict Pitfalls in its Hydro Blitz?

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 27, 2016  //  By Alec Forss
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    Myanmar is undergoing multiple transitions, from military rule to democracy, decades of civil war to peace, and from a command economy to a market-based one. No less of an important challenge amidst this backdrop of change and hope is addressing the country’s energy poverty.

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  • After Paris, What’s the Status of “Environmental Refugees?”

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    Wilson on COP-21  //  January 7, 2016  //  By James F. Hollifield & Idean Salehyan
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    “Wilson Perspectives: The Paris Climate Agreement” is a series of short essays exploring the key issues that emerged during the 21st Conference of Parties that originally appeared on WilsonCenter.org.

    One of the hidden costs of climate change is the displacement of millions of people in some of the poorest regions of the globe. The existing international refugee regime is ill-suited to cope with those seeking refuge from environmental disasters. Countries must get serious about developing coordinated plans to address the issue, lest they be caught by surprise when another humanitarian crisis hits.

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