New Working Paper: What holds back dam building? The role of Brazil in the stagnation of dams in Tanzania
By Barnaby Dye Africa has experienced a dam boom since the mid-2000s with projects across the continent being built by the so-called rising powers like China, ‘traditional donors’ (e.g. the USA and Germany) and established international development organisation such...
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New research: idealogical drivers of Rwanda’s electricity boom
By Barnaby Dye A boom in constructing electricity infrastructure is underway in Africa – whether in generation plants or power lines. However, there aren’t many studies explaining why this building wave is taking place. My new paper presents a detailed case study of...
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Climate finance, hydropower and the transition to a low-carbon future
International climate funds, set up to finance the global transition to a low carbon future has the potential to invest in hydropower to enable the shift to reliable, affordable, clean distributed smart grids and incentivise infrastructure which is socially,...
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UN Climate Change Conference COP 25
FutureDAMS presented two sessions at this year's UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 (Madrid, 2 - 13 December 2019). Search for #FutureDAMS on Twitter for live coverage of the events. Building Better Dams: the Past, Present and Future of Hydropower Wednesday 4...
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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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Perceptions of risk and options for risk mitigation in hydropower investment: Roundtable, Singapore
Tuesday 29th October 2019, 12:30 – 16:15, King & Spalding (Singapore) The roundtable discussion commenced with a brief welcome and introduction to the FutureDAMS project by Judith Plummer Braeckman. Judith then delivered presentations providing an overview of our...
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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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