What’s the risk? Understanding and mitigating risk for hydropower project investment
Hydropower projects can support sustainable development but they’re often seen as risky so can struggle to get finance. A new framework from FutureDAMS researchers Plummer Braeckman and Markkanen for identifying, measuring and managing risk for large hydropower...
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Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa are consistently falling short of their promises
Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans. They are consistently delivering a much smaller area of irrigation or are completely broken. And things aren’t improving. Large-scale irrigation infrastructure projects are back on the...
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New working paper: India’s development cooperation with Africa
A new working paper by Barnaby Dye analyses how India’s development cooperation with Africa has significantly changed. Founded after India’s independence, the country’s development cooperation programme was rhetorically framed as demand-led, non-interventionist and...
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EGU2021Call for abstracts: Water resources policy and management-systems solutions in an uncertain world
In 2021, EGU will be hosting vEGU21: Gather Online (#vEGU21), a fully virtual meeting that will be held in place of the General Assembly in Vienna. FutureDAMS research Director Prof. Julien Harou is co-convening an EGU session on water resource systems under...
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Call for abstracts: water resources policy and management at EGU 2021
HS5.3.1: Water resources policy and management - managing trade-offs at the nexus between water, food and energy As part of the “Water Resources Policy and Management” group of sessions, Tim Foster and Roshan Adhikari are convening a session at EGU 2021 focused on...
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Integrating natural and built infrastructure in water resource development: what’s stopping us?
FutureDAMS welcomed Mark Smith, Director General of International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Matthew McCartney, IWMI's Sustainable Water Infrastructure & Ecosystems Research Group Leader, to present a webinar discussing how to support the planning and...
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Is the dam-age over? The growth of dam removals in America
By Barnaby Dye and François Edwards This week the BBC featured an article describing the largest-scale project of dam removal to date on the Klamath River in the Western USA. The project involves the gradual disassembling of four out of eight hydroelectric dams. These...
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The political power controlling Ghana’s electricity system and the ensuing crises
By Barnaby Dye On the 27 August 2012, a small group of pirates triggered the first of two major power crises in Ghana. Attempting to escape from the Togolese Navy on a captured oil tanker, the pirates left the ship’s anchor trailing. It snagged on the West African Gas...
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The World Commission on Dams: then and now
By Christopher Schulz and Bill Adams On 16 November 2000, the World Commission on Dams (WCD) launched its final report in London, in the presence of Nelson Mandela. This event marked the conclusion of an unlikely process. WCD was composed of 12 eminent personalities...
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River basins and energy systems – what synergies are possible and how can they be discovered?
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 somewhat arbitrary allocation of benefits and costs across sectors and geographic regions....
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