2015

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The water–energy–food–health nexus

22 December 2015

Ursula Schaefer-Preuss wants a water-secure world where the productive power of water is harnessed and its destructive force is minimized

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2030 Agenda, drinking water, Global Water Partnership, International Decade for Action, sanitation, stewardship of water resources, Ursula Schaefer-Preuss, water pollution, water-energy-food-health nexus, “Water for Life”

Exploring climate change from a gender perspective

19 December 2015

Virginie Le Masson argues that paying that attention to gender differences matters

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged climate change, climate change mitigation, European Institute for Gender Equality, gender, gender relations, Ladakh, Overseas Development Institute, Uttar Pradesh, Virginie Le Masson

Good business: Oribags Innovations

29 October 2015

A young Ugandan is transforming agricultural waste into fashionable bags

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agricultural waste, environmentally friendly, Good Business, Oribags Innovations, plastic bags, Rusia Orikiriza Bariho, SEED Initiative, small business, start-ups, sustainable, Ugandan, women entrepreneurs, Young African Leaders Initiative, young entrepreneurs

In the century of cities

29 October 2015

Parag Khanna surveys some of the opportunities and challenges facing the world’s metropolises in the 21st century

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged cities, city clusters, diplomacity, inclusive cities, industry, mega-cities, Parag Khanna, Pearl RIver Delta, sustainability, urban strategy, urbanization

Half full or half empty?

18 October 2015

Water can be a catalyst for conflict or for cooperation

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged conflict, cooperation, droughts, ecosystems, floods, groundwater, integrated water resources management, IWRM, Mitidaption, nation-states, rivers, Robert C. Brears, runoff, water, water resources

Getting the new urban agenda right

20 September 2015

The major challenges that will be generated by urbanization

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged cities, citizens, development, economic growth, Fernando Casado Cañeque, Habitat III, innovation, population, SDG 11, urban areas, urbanization, youth employment

Our prosperity is in peril unless we shift from a wasteful world to a ‘circular economy’

11 September 2015

Can a more sustainable economy also deliver the gains in prosperity we’ve grown used to?

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged circular economy, economic productivity, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, linear economy, Mark Esposito, rebound effect, recycled, remanufactured, resource efficiency, reused, sustainability, Terence Tse

A post-GDP world

1 September 2015

Lorenzo Fioramonti on why it’s time to end the tyranny of Gross Domestic Product

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged GDP, Gross Domestic Product, Lorenzo Fioramonti, SDG, SDGs, superpower, Sustainable Development Goals

Nurturing an industrial cluster in Nigeria

26 August 2015

The Panteka Market cluster in Yola

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged clustering, Daniel Barkley, Economics On The Move, industrial cluster, Nigeria, Panteka, Panteka Market Association, Yola

Why privatize water?

24 August 2015

Anna Lappé believes that private sector engagement in water provision brings greater disparities in access and higher costs

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Anna Lappé, Bechtel, Corporate Accountability International, corporate equity, failing infrastructure, Focus on the Global South, International Finance Corporation, municipal water, Nagpur, Nagpur Municipal Corporation Employees Union, private sector engagement, public-private partnership, Shayda Naficy, water privatization, water provision, World Bank Group