Environmental Health Events
Photography Exhibit and Reception: Water Stories: A Focus on Mexico
October 11, 2007 // 5:00pm — 7:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
More than 1 billion people lack access to potable water and more than 2.6 billion do not have adequate sanitation. "Water Stories: A Focus on Mexico" offers a vivid glimpse of the lives that lie behind these statistics.
Book Discussion: Too Poor For Peace? Links Between Poverty, Conflict, Demography, and Environment
October 05, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Poverty not only causes insecurity in individuals' lives, but can also contribute to broader political instability, say contributors to "Too Poor for Peace."
China's Green Olympics: A Lasting Impact?
September 26, 2007 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm
China Environment Forum
Since winning the Olympic bid in 2001, Beijing has invested heavily in green construction materials and sustainable energy for the Olympic Village, and made momentous efforts to clean the city's notoriously dirty air and water.
Examining Environmental Links to Peace and Conflict in Sudan: The UN Environment Programme's Sudan Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment
September 21, 2007 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Efforts to end the ongoing violence in Darfur and build on the 2005 peace agreement must consider how environmental problems such as deforestation, drought, and desertification affect the balance between peace and conflict.
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor: The Orangi Pilot Project in Karachi, Pakistan and Density & Urban Form in Dakar, Senegal
September 07, 2007 // 9:00am — 11:30am
Comparative Urban Studies Project
According to the United Nations, over one billion people lack access to clean water and over two billion have no access to sanitation, the primary cause of diseases like cholera that take the lives of more than 6,000 children in poor countries every day.
The State of the World's Population: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth
June 27, 2007 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Global Health Initiative
Is urbanization really bad?, asks George Martine, lead author of the UN Population Fund's recent report.
The Other Side of the Indian Growth Story: Confronting Agriculture and Rural Development
June 26, 2007 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Asia Program
Experts discuss how and why agriculture and rural development factor into long-term economic growth and poverty reduction in India.
The Role of Gender in Population, Health, and Environment Programs
June 19, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Experts advocate greater integration of gender into reproductive health and sustainable livelihood programs.
Special Briefing for the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water Supply and Sanitation
May 08, 2007 // 8:30am — 9:45am
Environmental Change and Security Program
ECSP organizes a special briefing for the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water Supply and Sanitation to offer perspectives on U.S.-based efforts on global water supply and sanitation services.
Restoring Nature's Capital: An Action Agenda to Sustain Ecosystem Services
May 07, 2007 // 10:00am — 11:30am
Environmental Change and Security Program
Speakers discuss the possible reasons for and solutions to ecosystem degradation, and debate why the topic is virtually ignored by policymakers and the media.