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Is the dam-age over? The growth of dam removals in America

Is the dam-age over? The growth of dam removals in America

Nov 25, 2020 | comment, Ecology, News, Politics and governance

By Barnaby Dye and François Edwards This week the BBC featured an article describing the largest-scale project of dam removal to date on the Klamath River in the Western USA. The project involves the gradual disassembling of four out of eight hydroelectric dams. These...
Stakeholders should get a fair share of benefits from inter-connected water-energy systems

Stakeholders should get a fair share of benefits from inter-connected water-energy systems

Jul 7, 2020 | comment, News, power systems, Research, Water resources

By Julien Harou, Mathaios Panteli, Jose Gonzalez Cabrera, Gloria Salmoral and Rose Sumner. Traditionally planners considered the effects of water and energy systems on the other in simplified ways or not at all. This has often led to inefficient use of resources and a...
Power Systems and Covid-19: Crisis or bringing sectors together to survive and thrive?

Power Systems and Covid-19: Crisis or bringing sectors together to survive and thrive?

May 28, 2020 | comment, News, power systems

By Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña, Wentao Zhu, Jose Nicolas Melchor Gutierrez, Mathaios Panteli The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of critical services and infrastructures to large scale crises and the power sector is no exception. Electrical...
Dams and Covid-19: Some Thoughts

Dams and Covid-19: Some Thoughts

Apr 23, 2020 | comment, News, Politics and governance, Social impacts

By David Hulme and Barnaby Dye, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Today we live in a lockdown world as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across countries and continents: air travel has virtually ceased; billions of people have been told to stay at...
Resettlement from large dams – what have we learned?

Resettlement from large dams – what have we learned?

Oct 28, 2019 | comment, News, Research, Social impacts

By Jamie Skinner, IIED Millions of people have been displaced by reservoir construction around the world and the negative effects this has had on their livelihoods has prompted many questions about the uneven distribution of costs and benefits of large dams....
Dammed Dams: Prioritising Long-Term Gain or Short-Term Completion

Dammed Dams: Prioritising Long-Term Gain or Short-Term Completion

Apr 17, 2019 | comment, Politics and governance

By Barnaby Dye The movement for dam reforms in the 1990s generated more detailed methodologies in assessing environmental and social impacts. They also advocated reform in the contracting process whereby the credentials of the prospective companies are considered with...

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