by gdi | Dec 19, 2018 | Research
By Barnaby Dye, FutureDAMS Research Associate A recent study financed by the World Bank suggests that low-cost floating solar panels could produce an equivalent amount of power at a fraction of the footprint of a large dam’s reservoir. Many developing countries have...
by gdi | Dec 12, 2018 | News
Call for papers: Development Studies Association Annual Meeting 2019, Milton Keynes, UK 19-21 June Deadline for abstracts: 14 January 2019 Session Title: Dams, Development & Decision-making Organizers: Pon Souvannaseng (University of Manchester); David Hulme...
by gdi | Dec 11, 2018 | News, Research
By Judith Plummer Braeckman (CISL) and Jamie Skinner (IIED) Large hydropower projects can cost more than a billion dollars to build. For the private sector, to whom Governments are increasingly turning for infrastructure finance, this represents a significant...
by gdi | Dec 5, 2018 | News
This autumn at UNESCO in Paris the International Hydropower Association held a meeting entitled ‘Improving decision-making for hydropower’. FutureDAMS Research Director Julien Harou was an invited speaker and gave the following 10 minute presentation on the...
