Private sector investment and the anatomy of risk
Download 'Private sector investment and the anatomy of risk' from International Water Power & Dam Construction Magazine. The article covers a recent FutureDAMS webinar where Judith Plummer Braeckman from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership discussed...
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Welcome to the team
The FutureDAMS consortium is delighted to welcome Gloria Salmoral to the team as the Technical Project Manager. Gloria will be responsible for coordinating our technical work, tracking milestones, organising meetings and co-development workshops, and contributing to...
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Stakeholders should get a fair share of benefits from inter-connected water-energy systems
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...
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Resilience shift: ‘Seeing the bigger picture – the water-energy nexus’
Read the Resilience Shift blog 'Seeing the bigger picture - the water-energy nexus' by FutureDAMS researchers Mathaios Panteli, Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña and Julien Harou. The authors discuss the opportunities and challenges in jointly planning and developing...
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How will Covid-19 shape the future of agricultural investments?
By Sarah Redicker and Roshan Adhikari, The Global Development Institute The Covid-19 pandemic is having wide ranging effects on agricultural systems including major disruptions in food supply chains and other shocks affecting food production, as well as rural...
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Webinar – Meeting Africa’s Latest Dam Builders: The Indian ExIm Bank, ‘Entrepreneurial’ Companies and the Outcomes of South-South Cooperation
Barnaby Dye, The Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 14th July 2020 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wq6uGTxnAbc https://youtu.be/wq6uGTxnAbc In the 21st Century, India has become a dam builder in Africa. In line with booming development...
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Webinar: Alternative models of irrigation development in Ghana
Roshan Adhikari, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 30th June 2020 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KuMvOyX4_5I https://youtu.be/KuMvOyX4_5I Expansion of irrigated agriculture is central to efforts to enhance food security, reduce rural...
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The ex-ante economic analysis of investments in large dams: a brief history
By Dale Whittington and Kerry Smith Tuesday 16th June, 4pm Watch: https://youtu.be/lqpzbpSnstE https://youtu.be/lqpzbpSnstE In this presentation Dale and Kerry explore the history of the ex-ante economic analysis of large dams through the discussion of six key...
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Power Systems and Covid-19: Crisis or bringing sectors together to survive and thrive?
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...
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Webinar – Climate finance for hydropower: enabling the transition to a low-carbon future
By Sejal Patel and Neha Rai, IIED Tuesday 2nd June 2020 Watch: https://youtu.be/egmlWKoNNqQ In this presentation, we discuss the role of climate financiers in supporting hydropower, and look at why hydropower project developers should be interested in the benefits of...
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