Behind the Numbers: The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment
The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment
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Author ArchivePopulation, Health, and Environment Champions Bring Their Experiences From the Field to the International Family Planning ConferenceWednesday, December 7th, 2011 Posted in Environment by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment This past week at the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning, four practitioners from the field traveled from remote parts of Democratic ... Read more..An Oasis in a Rapidly Growing NairobiTuesday, March 29th, 2011 Posted in Environment by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment Flying over Kenya and into the Nairobi airport, you can see the expansive National Park that abuts the city of more than ... Read more..Where Did Global Warming Go?Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 Posted in Environment by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="263" caption="Photo credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)"][/caption] The weather across the United States this winter has been consistently cold, snowy, and ... Read more..Clean Cookstoves Benefit Health and the EnvironmentThursday, October 7th, 2010 Posted in Environment by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment Hillary Clinton recently announced the formation of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves – a United Nations Foundation-led public-private partnership that aims ... Read more..PRB in the Field: A Few Ponderings on Field VisitsFriday, December 18th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment My mind is often flooded with indicators: population size, percent of the population living on less than a dollar per day, landholdings per ... Read more..Carbon Offsets and Drawing the Distinction Between Population “Control” and Voluntary Family PlanningWednesday, December 9th, 2009 Posted in Environment, Reproductive Health by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment I was recently asked whether I thought Optimum Population Trust's Carbon Offsets Program was akin to “population control” by rich countries on poor ... Read more..World Water Week and the Challenges of the FutureFriday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Environment by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment This week is World Water Week, and an international conference in Stockholm, Sweden is focusing on the converging challenges that characterize the ... Read more..Fertility Rise for Richest and Climate Change RevisitedFriday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Environment, Population Basics by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment Andy Revkin’s post this week on The New York Times’ DotEarth blog highlights a recent paper published in Nature that indicates that countries ... Read more..Links Between HIV/AIDS and…the Environment?Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Environment, HIV/AIDS by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment When I tell friends and colleagues that I’ve just returned from a trip to Kenya to participate in a seminar on HIV/AIDS ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Population, Health, and Environment in Rwanda, part 2Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment (Read part 1 of this post) The next morning, our group rises early for a long drive to Nyungwe National Park, in the ... Read more.. |
