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Tackling irrigation poverty traps in South Asia

By Tim Foster and Roshan Adhikari Filed Under: All posts Posted: March 20, 2020

As we celebrate World Water day, Dr Timothy Foster, Lecturer in Water-Food Security in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and Dr Roshan Adhikari, Research Associate in the Global Development Institute, take a look at how rainfall variability impacts farmers in South Asia and explore what local and national governments can be doing […]

Tagged With: Clean water, climate change, food & agriculture, GDI, inequalities, international development, irrigation, water

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The UK must improve water management in the face of droughts

Claire Hoolohan By Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Energy and Environment Posted: May 11, 2017

As the threat of drought rises in the UK, Claire Hoolohan Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, considers how we might change the way society uses water. The UK is braced for drought, and though weather is part of drought, so is the amount of water used by people going about […]

Tagged With: droughts, environment, environmental policy, water, water management, weather

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Are land-use policies jeopardising the UK’s resilience to climate change and population growth?

Claire HoolohanMaria Sharmina By Claire Hoolohan and Maria Sharmina Filed Under: All posts Posted: April 22, 2016

Land provides a wide range of goods and services to society. But with multiple demands placed on our land, both now and into the future, Claire Hoolohan and Maria Sharmina ask why are land-use policies failing to make the most of UK land? Land is an invaluable resource that sustains much of the UK economy […]

Tagged With: climate change, energy, food, Land, planning, sustainability, water

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Managing water demand

Alison Browne By Alison Browne Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: July 14, 2015

The water industry has tried to manage consumption through technological ‘fixes’. But only by understanding how and why water is used can demand be reduced, argues Dr Alison Browne. For many years the mismatch between the demand for water and its available supply was ‘solved’ by the industry through engineering or technological solutions, including mega-projects […]

Tagged With: climate change, energy consumption, environment, gardening, resource management, washing, water, water management, water use

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Today’s global poverty is down to the way we run the world

David Hulme By David Hulme Filed Under: Featured Posted: October 16, 2014

Today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and also Blog Action Day 2014, with the theme of inequality. Professor David Hulme laments the fact that global poverty still continues to plague our world – despite previous headline-grabbing pledges by the richest nations. Today, as on all the previous days of the 21st century, […]

Tagged With: blog action day 2014, Brooks World Poverty Institute, famine, global poor, health, inequality, MDGs, Millennium Declaration, nutrition, poverty, third world, water

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Pickles-Paterson floods spat highlights true top-down nature of UK policymaking

Danny Fitzpatrick By Danny Fitzpatrick Filed Under: Science and Technology Posted: February 13, 2014

A top-down centralised decision-making process and government functions working in silos are not new features of UK politics, writes Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick. But as communities across the UK experience misery due to flooding, it seems these deeply entrenched pathologies of policymaking are increasingly out of step with the ‘wicked’ issues that society is facing. The […]

Tagged With: cameron, CLG, enviornment agency, floods, paterson, pickles, policy, rain, storms, water, water management

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Innovation in the water industry: Is the price too high?

Andrew Balmer By Andrew Balmer Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: October 30, 2013

While the recent hike in energy prices has made headlines, issues around the UK water supply get rather less attention. Breaching the UK’s impregnable ‘innovation barrier’ – to fix leaking pipes and tackle climate change – is one big challenge, writes Dr Andrew Balmer. Another is to prompt policymakers to be brave enough to ensure […]

Tagged With: electricity, fuel, gas, industry, infrastructure, policy, poverty, privitisation, utilities, water

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Avoiding catastrophe: the role of the state in the water-food-energy nexus

Danny Fitzpatrick By Danny Fitzpatrick Filed Under: Science and Technology Posted: October 2, 2013

The recurring themes of water, food and energy in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals suggest the policy-making community is waking up to the deep inter-dependencies between these three essential resources.  The role of central governments in translating such a ‘nexus thinking’ into meaningful action, in order to avoid a potential catastrophe, will be critical, writes […]

Tagged With: development, energy, environment, food, nexus, sustainability, UN, water

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