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FutureDAMS lecture: Have irrigation developments in Africa delivered the benefits they promised?

FutureDAMS lecture: Have irrigation developments in Africa delivered the benefits they promised?

Feb 14, 2020 | Agriculture and livelihoods, East Africa and Eastern Nile, News

Tom Higginbottom presents ‘have irrigation developments in Africa delivered the benefits they promised?’. Tom is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. His research uses...
New working paper: Mapping the evolving complexity of large hydropower project finance in low and lower-middle income countries

New working paper: Mapping the evolving complexity of large hydropower project finance in low and lower-middle income countries

Feb 14, 2020 | Finance, News, Research

By Sanna Markkanen The new FutureDAMS working paper is the second in a series emerging from the CISL’s contribution to the FutureDAMS project, with a specific focus on the questions around sustainable finance for sustainable hydropower projects in low-income and...
5th Batch of Young Water Professionals (1st Batch of Myanmar Water Academy) training: Myanmar

5th Batch of Young Water Professionals (1st Batch of Myanmar Water Academy) training: Myanmar

Feb 5, 2020 | News, Water resources

During the second week of January 2020, Professor Aung Ze Ya of Yangon Technological University (Ministry of Education, Myanmar) delivered a three-day workshop to the 5th batch of young water professionals (YWP), which is also the 1st batch of the Myanmar Water...
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship: The Political Ecology of Large Dams in India

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship: The Political Ecology of Large Dams in India

Feb 4, 2020 | News

Based at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University Enclave, North Campus, Delhi 110007 IEG invites applications from postdoctoral scholars for a two-year fellowship to conduct research on a topic related to the political ecology of large dams in India. The...
DW Radio’s Living Planet: What are the lessons learned from Brazil’s Brumadinho dam collapse?

DW Radio’s Living Planet: What are the lessons learned from Brazil’s Brumadinho dam collapse?

Jan 24, 2020 | News, Politics and governance

Listen to DW’s radio show ‘Living Planet’ to hear FutureDAMS’ Barnaby Dye talk about the safety of dams, how we can improve the planning of integrated water-energy-food-environment systems using the FutureDAMS integrated assessment toolset and...
Understanding how the FutureDAMS modelling and visualisation interface can support Kenya’s Water Resources Authority

Understanding how the FutureDAMS modelling and visualisation interface can support Kenya’s Water Resources Authority

Jan 21, 2020 | News, Water resources

3-day workshop, December 2019, Nairobi, Kenya FutureDAMS is co-developing a state-of-the-art online integrated assessment modelling toolset for assessing and optimising water-energy-food-environment system designs. Anthony Hurford travelled to Nairobi to deliver a...
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