Solutions Through Reproductive Health: Recommended Readings

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Solutions Through Reproductive Health: Why Family Planning Matters to Climate Change

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Academic Sources:

  1. Bryant, L. et al. (2009). Climate change and family planning: least-developed countries define the agenda. Bull World Health Organ, 87. 852-857. doi:10.2471/BLT.08.062562. https://www.scielosp.org/pdf/bwho/2009.v87n11/852-857/en
  2. Gerlagh, R., Lupi, V., Galeotti, M. (2019). Family planning and climate change. CESifo Working Paper No. 7421. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3338775
  3. Guillebaud, J. (2016). Voluntary family planning to minimise and mitigate climate change. BMJ, 353:i2102. https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2102.
  4. Joshi, Shareen and Schultz, T. Paul, Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program’s Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh (2007). Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 951; IZA Discussion Paper No. 2639; iHEA 2007 6th World Congress: Explorations in Health Economics Paper. https://ssrn.com/abstract=962938
  5. Mazur, L. (2010). A pivotal moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge. Island Press.Washington DC. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. https://islandpress.org/books/pivotal-moment
  6. Patterson, K., et al. (2019). Building resilience through family planning and climate adaptation finance:systematic review and opportunity analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(12). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30155-X
  7. Starbird, E., Norton, M., Marcus, R. (2016). Investing in family planning: key to achieving the sustainable development goals. Global Health: Science and Practice. 4(2), 191-210. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00374

General Sources:

  1. Canning, D., Raja, S., Yazbeck, A.S. (2015). African’s Demographic Transition. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/ The World Bank. Washington, DC: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/22036/AfrDemographicTransitionOVERVIEW.pdf
  2. Climate Change: Time to Think Family Planning: An advocacy toolkit for planning advocates. (2016).International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). https://www.ippf.org/sites/default/files/2016-11/ Climate%20Change%20Time%20to%20Think%20Family%20Planning%20Advocacy%20Toolkit%20Final.pdf
  3. Family planning/ Contraception. (2018). World Health Organization (WHO). https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/family-planning-contraception
  4. Hammer, D. and Wheeler, D. (2010). The economics of population policy for carbon emissions reduction in developing countries. Center for Global Development. Washington, D.C. https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/1424557_file_Wheeler_Hammer_Economics_Pop_Policy.pdf
  5. Hawken, P. et al. (2020). The Drawdown Review. Project Drawdown. https://www.drawdown.org/drawdown-framework/drawdown-review-2020
  6. Horton, R. The Lancet. (2017). Deliver for Good: Investments in girls and women power progress for all. The investment case for girls and women. Women Deliver. https://womendeliver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Deliver-for-Good-Booklet.pdf
  7. Just the math: Methodology for calculating the U.S. share of the cost of addressing the unmet need for contraception in developing countries. (2018). Population Action International. https://pai.org/newsletters/just-math-methodology-calculating-u-s-share-cost-addressing-unmet-need-contraception-developing-countries/
  8. Kanem, N. (2018). Family planning is a human right. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). https://www.unfpa.org/press/family-planning-human-right
  9. Miller, G. and Babiarz, K.S. (2016). Family planning program effects: A review of evidence from microdata. Center for Global Development. Working Paper 442. Washington, D.C. http://www.cgdev.org/publication/family-planning-program-effects-review-evidencemicrodata-working-paper-422
  10. Mutunga, C., Zulu, E., De Souza, R.M. (2012). Population dynamics, climate change, and sustainable development in Africa. Population Action International (PAI). African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP). https://pai.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Sustainable-Development-in-Africa.pdf
  11. Patterson, K. (2016). Climate Change, Health, and Population Dynamics: A View from Tanzania. PRB, Cool Green Science. https://www.prb.org/family-planning-cool-green-science/
  12. Singh, S, J E Darroch, L S Ashford and M Vlasoff. (2017). Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health. New York: Guttmacher Institute and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).; Dennis, S and C Mutunga. Funding Common Ground: Cost Estimates for International Reproductive Health. Washington, DC. PAI.
  13. Sustainable Development Goals. (2019). United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs
  14. Summary for Policymakers. In: Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, A. Pirani, W.Moufouma-Okia, C. Péan, R. Pidcock, S. Connors, J.B.R. Matthews, Y. Chen, X. Zhou, M.I. Gomis, E. Lonnoy, T.
    Maycock, M. Tignor, and T. Waterfield (eds.)]. In Press. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SR15_SPM_version_report_LR.pdf
  15. Thornton PK, Jones PG, Owiyo T, Kruska RL, Herrero M, Kristjanson P, Notenbaert A, Bekele N and Omolo A, with contributions from Orindi V, Otiende B, Ochieng A, Bhadwal S, Anantram K, Nair S, Kumar V and Kulkar U (2006). Mapping climate vulnerability and poverty in Africa. Report to the Department for International Development, ILRI, PO Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya. Pp 171. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/2307/Mapping_Vuln_Africa.pdf?sequence=1%26isAllowed=y
  16. World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights. (2019). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York. https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2019_Highlights.pdf

News Articles:

  1. Ahmed, O. (2020). Integrating a reproductive justice framework in climate research. Center for American Progress. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/news/2020/03/06/481359/integrating-reproductive-justice-framework-climate-research/?fbclid=IwAR3lYAa6ApaGZNlXmxJSMctfAeaikLyAUZv58KcuBV2utMpLjFOQkScCz9c
  2. Calma, J. (2020). Birth control and books can slow down climate change. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/3/21163135/education-reproductive-healthcare-climate-change-solution-drawdown
  3. Dattler, R. (2018). World Contraception Day: Contraceptive funding in crisis. Countdown 2030 Europe. IPPF. https://www.countdown2030europe.org/news/world-contraception-day-contraceptive-funding-crisis
  4. Engelman, R. (2018). Why family planning makes a climate-sustainable future more likely. Salon.com, LLC. https://www.salon.com/2018/11/25/why-family-planning-makes-a-climate-sustainable-future-more-likely_partner/
  5. Hirsch, C. (2017). Family Planning: A win-win for women and climate change. Women Deliver. Population & Sustainability Network. https://womendeliver.org/2017/family-planning-win-win-women-climate-change/
  6. Kelly, B. (2019). Opinion: Why family planning is key to climate adaptation. Thomson Reuters Foundation. https://news.trust.org/item/20190927141807-uhqjk/
  7. Lieberman, A. (2019). How UNFPA rebounded from US funding cuts. Devex. https://www.devex.com/news/how-unfpa-rebounded-from-us-funding-cuts-95225
  8. Mueller, R. (2019). In Sahel: Family planning meets climate change. Yale Climate Connections.https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/01/family-planning-to-combat-climate-change-in-sahel/
  9. Patterson, K. (2015). How family planning could help slow climate change. Population Reference Bureau. https://www.prb.org/ms-blog-family-planning-climate-change/
  10. The Associated Press. (2020). UN Report: Equality for women remains a distant goal. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/03/05/world/ap-un-united-nations-gender-inequality.html?fbclid=IwAR1NcBqbzumTCEEq1uJ4Z8qmhDaMzC0uGE9tTKtepRSDHKO_RoevBfgvYrY
  11. Watkins, A. (2019). Why climate change is really about social justice. Population Education. Population Connection. https://populationeducation.org/why-climate-change-is-really-about-social-justice/?utm_content=116342313&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-130639713648371&fbclid=IwAR1cAFPRR5Mq1oTBVZ_qbllux–9AYQ3XgtfTX_Omh3uDaEBvxgfwNBoRCU
  12. What we do: Family Planning 2020. Family Planning 2020. https://www.familyplanning2020.org/about-us
  13. Whitley-Berry, V. (2017). Want to slow global warming? Researchers look to family planning. National Public Radio (NPR). https://www.npr.org/2017/07/19/537954372/want-to-slow-global-warming-researchers-look-to-family-planning
  14. Weinberg, A. (2019). The climate change solution scientists have been overlooking. Mother Jones. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/10/the-climate-change-solution-scientists-have-been-overlooking/