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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.
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SEP 15, 2011 • Article
SUSTAINABILITY FORUM: The Population and Sustainability Debate
According to UN projections, our world will be home to more than 9 billion people by 2050, increasing competition for livable space and critical resources such as ...