- Water resources / power system simulation and optimisation
- The social impacts of dams
- Political science and governance
- Climate, ecology and hydrological science
- Economic analyses of dams, including food, agriculutre and livelihoods
- Financing dams
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Presentations will usually follow a standard academic 30-minute format + 15 minutes for questions and moderated discussion. The webinars will take place every two weeks on Zoom and recordings of the webinars will be made available afterwards.
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Upcoming webinars
Hydropower in LDCs with Chinese characteristics
Lila Buckley (IIED) & Professor Wang Hua (PACE)
9th March 2021. REGISTER.
The focus of this webinar is the dynamics and safeguarding practices of Chinese overseas hydropower investments, providing insight into whether practices are improving and what is driving this. Understanding these drivers helps us to identify leverage points for improving the social and environmental outcomes of large dams in LDCs.
Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes: Implications for flash floods in urban areas
Professor Hayley Fowler, Newcastle University
Date TBC.
Hayley will present findings of research on short-duration rainfall intensification, which call for urgent climate-change adaptation measures to manage increasing flood risks, including rethinking the way climate change is incorporated into flood estimation guidance.
Engaging stakeholders in water-energy-food-environment systems modelling
Professor David Hulme & Dr Barnaby Dye
Coming soon…
Join us for the launch of the FutureDAMS manual for engaging stakeholders in water-energy-food-environment (WEFE) systems modelling. Authors David Hulme and Barnaby Dye will be explaining the FutureDAMS approach to stakeholder enagement in considering development options across the water, energy, food and environment nexus. Following their presentation, Judith Plummer Braeckmann will chair a panel session exploring the principles and applications of the FutureDAMS approach. They will be joined by FutureDAMS partner Emmanuel Obuobie and directors Professor Julien Harou and Jamie Skinner. More…
Past webinars
- Integrating natural and built infrastructure in water resource development: what’s stopping us?
Mark Smith & Matthew McCartney, International Water Management Institute, Sri lanka. - River basins and energy systems – what synergies are possible, and how can they be discovered?
Professor Julien Harou, University of Manchester, 03/11/2020 - Financing national scale energy projects in developing countries – An economy-wide evaluation of Ghana’s Bui Dam
Dr Alvaro Calzadilla, University College London, 06/10/2020.
- Meeting Africa’s Latest Dam Builders: The Indian ExIm Bank, ‘Entrepreneurial’ Companies and the Outcomes of South-South Cooperation
Barnaby Dye, University of Manchester. 14/07/2020. - Alternative models of irrigation development in Ghana
Roshan Adhikari, University of Manchester. 30/06/2020. - The ex-ante economic analysis of investments in large dams: a brief history
Dale Whittington, University of Manchester/University of North Carolina and Kerry Smith, Arizona State University. 16/06/2020. - Climate finance for hydropower: enabling the transition to a low-carbon future
Sejal Patel and Neha Rai, IIED. 02/06/2020. - Hydropower finance: complexity, risk and private sector investment
Judith Plummer Braeckmann and Sanna Markkanen, Cambridge Centre for Sustainability Leadership. 12/05/2020. - Resettlement of Gumuz communities around Ethiopia’s Blue Nile dam
Dr Sarah Vaughan, Honorary Fellow of Edinburgh University, UK, and Principal at thepolicypractice.com. 21/04/2020.