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World Water Day on Water and Energy: The Nexus and beyond

Bonn, 20. March 2014

At this Water Lecture, a panel of high-level experts from International Organizations, Policy think tanks and the academia discussed the various links between water and energy as well as potential challenges and opportunities of the interface between water and energy at different levels and settings. The emphasis of this panel discussion…

Opportunities for the 2015 Climate Agreement

Bonn, 11. March 2014

The notion of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) is a cornerstone of international climate policy. It essentially acknowledges that individual countries’ contributions to global warming are often at odds with the climate change impacts they will be facing while at the same time there exist considerable differences in…

Green Transformational Policies towards Sustainability

Berlin, 11. March 2014

If we are to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system and to preserve humanity's life support systems for future generations, we need a radical transformation in the way we use our planet's natural resources. The market is failing to bring about the necessary changes and its incentive structures even caused the…

Capital investments in fossil fuels: The Flight of the Investors

Wolff, Peter (2014)
The Current Column, 10. March 2014

Economists and climate politicians agree that a price for CO2 emissions would be the best instrument to reduce emissions and steer investors towards investments in low-carbon energy production, but this is still a long way away.

Applying the concept of fit to water governance reforms in South Africa

Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke (2014)
External Publications

Framework for participatory food security research in rural food value chains

Graef, Frieder / Stefan Sieber / Khamaldin Mutabazi / Folkard Asch / Hans Konrad Biesalski / Janet Bitegeko / Wolfgang Bokelmann / Michael Brüntrup / Ottfried Dietrich / Nickson Elly / Aanja Fasse / Jörn Germer / Ulrike Grote / Ludgar Herrmann / Raoul Her (2014)
External Publications

Green industrial policy in emerging countries

Pegels, Anna (2014)
Books

Closing the Science-Practice Gap in Risk Management

Bonn, 30. January 2014

Public Lecture by Roger Kasperson, Research Professor at Clark University, Worchester/ USA The gap between science and decision making has long been a major concern in risk management. This presentation reports on the project "Vulnerability and Resilience in Science and Practice." This project has expored how knowledge enters into and…

The institutionalization of river basin management as politics of scale: insights from Mongolia

Houdret, Annabelle / Ines Dombrowsky / Lena Horlemann (2014)
External Publications

2013

2013 Jump to: Archive 2013 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2013 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sep . Oct. Nov. Dec. December Aid on the edge of chaos - reviewThe solutions Ben Ramalingam offers to the problems in the aid system are innovative ways of aligning aid with its complex environment and introduces 'exotic' new development terms, describe Heiner Janus and Sebastian Paulo in their review.…

The technologist’s dilemma: ethical challenges of using crowdsourcing technology in conflict and disaster-affected regions

Martin-Shields, Charles (2013)
External Publications

Boundary management and the discursive sphere: negotiating ‘realities’ in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Lisa Oberkircher / Anisiya Kudryavtseva (2013)
External Publications

Inter-ethnic cooperation revisited: why mobile phones can help prevent discrete events of violence, using the Kenyan case study

Martin-Shields, Charles (2013)
External Publications

How physical and social factors affect village-level irrigation: an institutional analysis of water governance in northern China

Wang, Xiaoxi / M. Ilona Otto / Lu Yu (2013)
External Publications

Individualized pastureland use: responses of herders on institutional arrangements in pastoral China

Yu, Lu / Katharine Nora Farrell (2013)
External Publications

Disaster risk management & climate change joint platform 2013: communications and information technology sector role in disaster and climate change policy

Aiolupotea, Ronnie / Manusamoa Tony Sa’aga / Charles Martin-Shields (2013)
External Publications

Adapting to water scarcity: constraints and opportunities for improving irrigation management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

Tischbein, Bernhard / Ahmad M. Manschadi / Christopher Conrad / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Anik Bhaduri / Ul Hassan Mehmood / John P.A. Lamers / Usman K. Awan / Paul L.G. Vlek (2013)
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Payment for environmental services and unequal resource control in Pimampiro, Ecuador

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Jessica Budds / Rutgerd Boelens (2013)
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Post 2015: making migration work for sustainable development

Schraven, Benjamin / Niels Keijzer / Anna Knoll (2013)
Briefing Paper 21/2013

Discussions on a post-2015 framework pay increasing attention to the issue of migration, albeit with a main emphasis on its functionalist and non-contentious dimensions. Real progress necessitates a more holistic treatment of migration that covers all components of sustainable development.

Alpaca sweaters or Innovation Tourette's? Hopes for a more evidence-based approach to development policy in a grand coalition

Koch, Svea / Stefan Leiderer (2013)
The Current Column, 02. December 2013

The signing of the draft coalition agreement sees the grand coalition's development policy beginning to take shape.