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8 Billion and Counting: How Population Trends Shape Our World

In this edition of ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ NOW, Jennifer D. Sciubba discusses her new book, β€œ8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World.”

In this edition of ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ NOW, our guest is Jennifer D. Sciubba, ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ Fellow and Associate Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College.  She discusses her new bookβ€œ.” The book argues that, β€œthe story of the twenty-first century is less a story about exponential population growth, as the previous century was, than it is a story about differential growth―marked by a stark divide between the world’s richest and poorest countries.” November 15, 2022, is the day the UN has estimated that global population will officially top 8 billion. 

 

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Environmental Change and Security Program

The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.   Read more

Environmental Change and Security Program

Maternal Health Initiative

Housed within the ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ's Environmental Change and Security Program, the Maternal Health Initiative (MHI) leads the ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ’s work on maternal health, global health equity, and gender equality.   Read more

Maternal Health Initiative