New working paper: India’s development cooperation with Africa
A new working paper by Barnaby Dye analyses how India’s development cooperation with Africa has significantly changed. Founded after India’s independence, the country’s development cooperation programme was rhetorically framed as demand-led, non-interventionist and...
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EGU2021Call for abstracts: Water resources policy and management-systems solutions in an uncertain world
In 2021, EGU will be hosting vEGU21: Gather Online (#vEGU21), a fully virtual meeting that will be held in place of the General Assembly in Vienna. FutureDAMS research Director Prof. Julien Harou is co-convening an EGU session on water resource systems under...
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Call for abstracts: water resources policy and management at EGU 2021
HS5.3.1: Water resources policy and management - managing trade-offs at the nexus between water, food and energy As part of the “Water Resources Policy and Management” group of sessions, Tim Foster and Roshan Adhikari are convening a session at EGU 2021 focused on...
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Integrating natural and built infrastructure in water resource development: what’s stopping us?
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Is the dam-age over? The growth of dam removals in America
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...
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The political power controlling Ghana’s electricity system and the ensuing crises
By Barnaby Dye On the 27 August 2012, a small group of pirates triggered the first of two major power crises in Ghana. Attempting to escape from the Togolese Navy on a captured oil tanker, the pirates left the ship’s anchor trailing. It snagged on the West African Gas...
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The World Commission on Dams: then and now
By Christopher Schulz and Bill Adams On 16 November 2000, the World Commission on Dams (WCD) launched its final report in London, in the presence of Nelson Mandela. This event marked the conclusion of an unlikely process. WCD was composed of 12 eminent personalities...
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River basins and energy systems – what synergies are possible and how can they be discovered?
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 somewhat arbitrary allocation of benefits and costs across sectors and geographic regions....
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How to improve dam planning in Latin America – what environmental and social scientists say
Latin America is currently seeing a boom in the construction of new dams. Brazil is the world’s third largest producer of hydroelectric energy, largely thanks to its abundant water resources. Small-scale hydropower dams (locally known as PCHs) have become an...
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Researchers win new grant to study the role of natural resources in India-Africa development cooperation
Dr Barnaby Dye (FutureDAMS, University of Manchester) and Professor Soares de Oliveira (Oxford) have recently won a grant to study the role of natural resources within India’s development cooperation activities in Africa. The project, starting in October will research...
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