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Who is eating up the world's aquifers? Groundwater depletion in international food
Who is eating up the world's aquifers? Groundwater depletion in international food. 17 May 2017, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Availability. Yes. Organiser. UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Location. Room G01, Central…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Global food supply at risk from agricultural misuse of non-renewable water – global study
New UCL ISR research highlights the growing issue of the global misuse of non-renewable groundwater reserves.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
UCL ISR Term 1 events roundup
UCL ISR Term 1 events roundup. 16 December 2016–20 January 2017, 9:00 am–9:00 am. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. UCL. iede-isr-comms@ucl.ac.uk. Location. Gower Street. The 2016-17 academic year events calendar at UCL ISR has got off…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Urban Water Trajectories
Urban Water Trajectories. 7 November 2016. Urban Water Trajectories. Co-edited by Adriana Allen and Pascale Hofmann in collaboration with Sarah Bell and T. H Teh, published by Springer. Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It…
Development Planning Unit
Call for Papers: Water SDGs and future water management
Call for Papers: Water SDGs and future water management. 16 August 2016. On 8 – 9 November 2016 the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR) will be hosting a two-day conference in London. Being the 5th in a series of BHP Billiton…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities – DPU at Urban Nexus
Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities – DPU at Urban Nexus. 31 May 2016. Funded by the ESRC, the Nexus Network brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners to develop a holistic…
Development Planning Unit
Social protection for inclusive development in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
Social protection for inclusive development in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. 8 February 2016. By Zeremariam Fre (PhD) Consortium leader and principal investigator. The ‘Social Protection for Inclusive Development in the Afar Region of Ethiopia…
Development Planning Unit
Mapping Food Safety and Environmental Hazards
Mapping Food Safety and Environmental Hazards. 29 January 2016. The Urban Zoonoses research project is investigating the effects of close interactions between people and animals in urban and peri-urban Nairobi on the spread of pathogens such…
Development Planning Unit
DPU in VII Waterlat meeting - Guadalajara, México
DPU in VII Waterlat meeting - Guadalajara, México. 27 November 2015. DPU's Étienne von Bertrab, together with Irene Bonilla (in picture) from the Mexican Institute for Community Development (IMDEC) participated in the VII Meeting of…
Development Planning Unit
Water-Energy-Land Nexus - Modelling long-term scenarios for Brazil
Water-Energy-Land Nexus - Modelling long-term scenarios for Brazil. 8 October 2015. This paper analyses the water-energy-land nexus in Brazil. Recent drought saw more than 1% of the nation’s economy lost and resulted in unprecedented widespread…
UCL Energy Institute