The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
In September 2021, Project Poldergeist was launched, a series of animated videos that explore the complexities of life below sea level in the Netherlands and other coastal regions. The host of the series is...
Pension funds have a great influence on our future, but they often invest in projects affecting human rights or the environment. Following the example of other Dutch universities, Pieter van der Zaag, Leon Hermans,...
Fiction can shape our understanding of water. Ashley Cahillane discusses how two novels narrate the relation between water infrastructure, privatization, climate change and gender, telling stories of oppression but also of resistance. This study...
On the 5th of December, the Water, Peace & Security (WPS) Partnership launches its Global Early Warning Tool. Susanne Schmeier, Emilie Broek, Rolien Sasse, Charles Iceland, Rozemarijn ter Horst, and Karen Meijer discuss how...
At this moment policy makers from 195 countries are together in Katowice, Poland, for the annual UNFCCC Climate Change Conference (COP24) to discuss their commitments to reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses. Countries can...
Jaap Evers and Assela Pathirana edited a special issue on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Mekong River Basin in the journal Climatic Change. The special issue features research from multiple scientific disciplines (hydrology,...
The IHE Water governance chair group is joining forces with the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and other academic institutions, to organise a conference on Critical Perspectives...
A new opinion article published on WIREs Climate Change by Jeroen Warner, Anna Wesselink and Govert Geldof discusses the politics of adaptive climate management. Adaptive Management (AM) has emerged as a promising approach to...
This blog post is a collaboration of the “Team Zika & Water”: Karin Bremer, Maya Velis, Leslie Ford, Marieke Hagg, and mentor Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero. The hum of mosquitoes can be heard around the...
