World: 
Background Readings
SUSTAINING
WATER SYSTEMS
Agricultural pollution, aquifer depletion, sanitation infrastructure, waste disposal, modifying waterways (dams, levees), safe drinking water.
ENSURING
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Gender wage gap, global wealth inequality, workers’ rights, poverty cycle, microfinance, green jobs.
IMPROVING
CLIMATE RESILIENCY
Climate migrants, poor urban planning, extreme weather events, agricultural productivity, disease evolution, global inequity in climate adaptation.
Sources for Further Research
SUSTAINING WATER SYSTEMS
Websites:
- UN Water – Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
- SDG – Sustainable Development Goal 6
- USGS – Aquifers and Groundwater
- WWF – Waste Disposal
- FAO – Land and Water
Articles:
- Amid Climate-Linked Drought, Farmers Turn To New Water Sources. Those Are Drying Up Too. Forbes, 7/2019
- Study examines consequences of groundwater depletion Water and Waste Digest, 3/2019
- The Sources and Solutions: Agriculture EPA
- Why water, sanitation, and hygiene are critical for children in fragile and conflict-affected areas. UNICEF, 8/2019
- Rethinking the water cycle McKinsey, 05/2015
ENSURING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Websites:
- PayScale – The State of the Gender Pay Gap 2019
- SDGs – Sustainable Development Goal 8
- Center for Global Development – Microfinance
- UN – World Economic Situation and Prospects 2019
- National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights – Workers’ rights
Articles:
- The narrowing, but persistent, gender gap in pay Pew Research Center, 3/2019
- New Pakistani Law Protects Women Farm Workers Human Rights Watch, 8/2019
- World’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam The Guardian, 7/2019
- These are the top sectors for jobs in the renewable energy industry CNBC, 8/2019
- What is the cycle of poverty? World Vision, 2/2018
IMPROVING CLIMATE RESILIENCY
Websites:
- SDGs – Sustainable Development Goal 11
- ESRI StoryMap – Climate Migrants
- WRI – Climate Resilience
- USGBC – The Center for Resilience
- CDC – Climate and Health
Articles:
- 143 Million People May Soon Become Climate Migrants NatGeo, 3/2018
- Migration and the climate crisis: the UN’s search for solutions UN News, 7/2019
- Climate change or just crazy weather? How improving tools make it easier to tell. MIT Technology Review, 8/2019
- Summertime means disease-carrying insects. Here’s what you should know. NatGeo, 7/2019
- These Are the Cities That Should Be Worried the Most About Climate Change Disaster Mother Jones, 8/2019