FutureDAMS lecture – Anna Mdee
'The missing middle: addressing tensions in interdisciplinary 'solutions-focused' water research projects' The latest FutureDAMS seminar was delivered by Dr Anna Mdee, Associate Professor in International Development in the School of Politics and International Studies...
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FutureDAMS at World Water Week
World Water Week, Stockholm, 25-30 August 2019 Julien Harou and Anthony Hurford attended Stockholm World Water Week to present FutureDAMS research. The theme for 2019 was Water for Society: Including all, which drew attention to broad solutions to humanity's major...
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Hydro 2019 in Porto, Portugal
Hydro 2019. 14-16 October 2019, Porto, Portugal Dr Judith Plummer Braeckman and Dr Sanna Markkanen attended the 'Hydro 2019' international conference in Porto, Portugal on 14-16 October, 2019 to disseminate FutureDAMS research on the topic of hydropower finance. On...
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‘Building better dams: the past, present and future of dams’ – University of Peking lecture by Prof David Hulme
On 29th October 2019, Professor David Hulme was welcomed by Peking University to present FutureDAMS' review of dams and development. David's lecture 'Building better dams: the past, present and future of dams' reviewed what is known about dam-building in developing...
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Resettlement from large dams – what have we learned?
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....
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FutureDAMS on the BBC
FutureDAMS research Barnaby Dye featured extensively in a BBC World report on ‘the challenge of dams’ broadcast this weekend. Following Egypt’s recent call for international mediation with Ethiopia to help agree an operating framework for the GERD dam on the Nile, the...
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Understanding the concepts and terminology of financing sustainable hydropower projects. New working paper.
By Sanna Markkanen Financing sustainable hydropower projects in emerging markets: an introduction to concepts and terminology (Working paper) is the first in a series of working papers emerging from the CISL’s contribution to the FutureDAMS project, with a specific...
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Financing sustainable energy infrastructure – CISL online survey
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) are seeking responses to an online survey: 'Financing Energy Infrastructure'. The purpose of the survey is to help understand how financiers make decisions on renewable energy infrastructure...
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FutureDAMS Annual Forum 2019
FutureDAMS Annual Forum, 17-19 September 2019, Manchester UK The FutureDAMS Annual Forum brought together more than 70 members of the consortium for three days of participatory activities and discussion. The objectives of the event were to: Develop a culture of...
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New Research: Continuity or Change in the Infrastructure Turn?
Development is undergoing an infrastructure turn, no more so than in resurgent dam building. But how are new projects planned and constructed? Are we seeing the underestimation of economic, environmental and social costs? Have past critiques changed infrastructure...
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