Laurie Mazur
Laurie Mazur is a writer and advocate on population, environment, and reproductive health and rights issues. She is the editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & the Environmental Challenge which received a Global Media Award from the Population Institute in 2010. She also edited Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment (Island Press, 1994). Mazur founded and, for several years, directed the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights.
Of Rights and Resilience: Why Women’s Rights are Key to Thriving in the Age of the “Black Swan”
by Laurie Mazur
August 11, 2011 - 8:20am (Print)
Black Swan events are proliferating for many reasons—notably climate change and the growing scale and interconnectedness of the human enterprise. World population doubled in the last half-century to just under seven billion people, so there are simply more people living in harm’s way, on geologic faults and along vulnerable coastlines. In effect, we have re-engineered the planet and ushered in a new era of radical instability. Advancing and securing women's rights are a key aspect of the solution to these problems.
Is Haiti Overpopulated?
by Laurie Mazur
January 21, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)
