Research Resources

We’ll be posting additional resources to our Twitter page all contest long. Follow us (@PopulationEd) for ongoing news and related articles associated with each of the three global challenges. All materials will be searchable using #W7B2017. You can also search for specific content using these individual global challenge hashtags: #W7Bclimate, #W7Bocean, #W7Burbanization.

Background Readings

Further Sources for Research

ADVANCING WOMEN AND GIRLS

Websites about Women’s status

United Nations: Equality and Empowerment
World Bank: Girls’ Education
Population Action International: Families, Sustainability, and Reproductive Rights
World Resources Institute: Gender
Women’s Environment & Development Organization: Why Women?
International Women’s Health Coalition: Health and Rights
World Health Organization: Women’s Health

Articles about Women’s status

“How climate change affects women differently – and what we can do about it” Conservation International, December 2015
“Safe, effective family planning is key to ‘empowering people, developing nations’” United Nations News Centre, July 2017
“This is how women are exploited in today’s global workforce” World Economic Forum, March 2016
“Time to Get Serious about Child Marriage in Latin America” Human Rights Watch, July 2017
“2017: the year we lost control of world population surge?” The Guardian, July 2017

FEEDING 10 BILLION

Websites about Agriculture

Union of Concerned Scientists: Food & Agriculture
United Nations: Hunger & Food Security
Natural Resources Defense Council: Food
Conservation International: Agriculture and Fisheries
State Department of Agriculture: Conservation
Sustainable Table: Food Issues

Articles about Agriculture

“2018 Farm Bill Holds Potential to Reduce Problem of Food Waste in America” Food Tank, July 2017
“Climate Change Is Transforming the World’s Food Supply” Live Science, February 2017
“UN experts denounce ‘myth’ pesticides are necessary to feed the world” The Guardian, March 2017
“18-Year Study Links Neonicotinoids to Bee Colony Decline” Discover Magazine, August 2016
“How to stop deforestation: ‘Indigenous people are the best park rangers’” The Guardian, April 2017
“How Agriculture Can Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions” The Wall Street Journal, October 2016
“Global Tree Cover Loss Remains High, Emerging Patterns Reveal Shifting Contributors” World Resources Institute, July 2017

PREVENTING POLLUTION

Websites about Pollution

World Wildlife Fund: Pollution
Natural Resources Defense Council: Air Pollution, Water Pollution
Union of Concerned Scientists: Clean Energy
International Dark-Sky Association: Light Pollution
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Ocean Pollution
Environmental Protection Agency: Land, Waste, and Cleanup

Articles about Pollution

“Plastic pollution risks ‘near permanent contamination of natural environment’” The Guardian, July 2017
“Sources and Effects of Common Air Pollutants” Conserve Energy Future, July 2017
“Is Noise Pollution Making Desert Bugs Disappear?” The Atlantic, June 2017
“Wastewater Is Key to Reducing Nitrogen Pollution” Scientific American, June 2016
“The Hidden Costs of Fossil Fuels” Union of Concerned Scientists, August 2016