The Top 5 of March 2021
Jordan is facing a deepening, multi-faceted freshwater crisis and it’ll take aggressive action by the country and its international partners to gain a foothold on its water future. In this month’s top post, Steven M. Gorelick, Jim Yoon, Christian Klassert feature their recently published framework that assesses the key factors playing a role in exacerbating Jordan’s limited natural water availability and Jordan’s water security outlook.
The Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum continues the conversation around a different threat facing water security in this month’s second and third top posts plastic waste pollution. Dieuwertje Nelissen and Tauhid Pandji showcase Indonesia’s leadership in building a circular economy for reducing, reusing, and recycling plastic waste. Ruyi Li and Clare Auld-Brokish sat down with Break Free From Plastic’s former Asia-Pacific Coordinator Beau Baconguis to learn about her efforts to end plastic waste poll
The Top 5 Posts of January 2021
The nature of climate risks complicates efforts to pinpoint and articulate climate’s impact on conflict. In January’s top post, Peter Schwartzstein draws on years of environmental reporting across the MENA region to share examples of how environmental and climate changes are driving conflict in areas where the climate angle isn’t immediately obvious.
Speaking of climate and conflict, the recently released Global Fragility Strategy fails to include climate change as a driver of fragility, notes ECSP Director Lauren Risi in the fifth top post. It does, however, signal a growing awareness of the role that environmental issues play in fragility, conflict, and peace.
The Top 5 Posts of December 2020
Approximately 200,000 women in the U.S. are incarcerated a nearly 800 percent increase over the past forty years. An often overlooked aspect of the increasing rates of women’s incarceration is its impact on women’s sexual and reproductive health needs. In our top post this month, the Maternal Health Initiative’s Hannah Chosid writes about the overlooked needs and barriers to incarcerated women’s reproductive autonomy.
Sara Matthews continues the conversation on women’s sexual and reproductive health in our third top post featuring a conversation with Registered Māori Midwives, Camille Harris and Waimaire Onekawa, on their experiences as Indigenous midwives and the power of Indigenous birthing practices.