What role can people play to effectively achieve SDG 6 and other SDGs?
In an interview, Tony Slatyer emphasized that each and every one of us has a role to lay in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) by 2030. Bringing the SDGs and SDG 6, in particular, into our everyday lives is an admirable and achievable objective. This article explores Tony’s ideas for how we can […]
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Creating water champions by breaking down disciplinary barriers
By Katrina Bukauskas, International Water Centre Alumni Network
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Tony Slatyer interview — Part 1: the High-Level Panel on Water, its initiatives, and Sustainable Development Goal 6
Interview quotes Tony Slatyer interview — Part 1 Tony Slatyer interview — Part 2 Tony Slatyer interview — Part 3 Tony Slatyer interview — Part 4 This interview and related content was originally part of the Kini Interview Series. Kini is a retired brand of the AWP and IWCAN.
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Risks and options assessment for decision-making
In an interview, Professor Quentin Grafton discussed the risks and option for decision-making (ROAD) process, as a successful approach for helping communities to deal with complex challenges. This article provides a primer of the ROAD process and explains how it can be used. The ROAD process is one that can be used to engage with multiple […]
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Strategic foresighting to address complex challenges
In his recent interview, Quentin Grafton spoke about how strategic foresight has been used to address challenges around food security. Strategic foresighting seems like a useful way to maximise face-to-face engagement to address wicked problems and complex, systemic challenges. This article looks more closely at what foresighting is, and how it can be applied. When unpacking […]
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Learning from the 2008 food crisis: what happened, lessons learned, and ongoing consequences
By Simon Ross, IWCAN In an interview, Quentin Fradton, an economist at the Australian National University, spoke about how a key report created in response to the 2007/2008 food crisis had inspired his work to bring people together to do something about it. This article gives a bit of background to this crisis, including how […]
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Change requires a crisis
A quote from Professor Quentin Grafton’s interview about the water-food-energy nexus and addressing wicked problems.
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Any successful endeavour has to be integrated
A quote from Professor Quentin Grafton’s interview about the water-food-energy nexus and addressing wicked problems.
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Resilient decision making: what it is and what value it can provide for global communities
In an interview, Professor Quentin Grafton discussed the importance of resiliency and resilient decision making. This article explores the concepts of resilience and resilient decision making, looking more closely at what they mean and how they can be applied at a community level. Resilient decision making addresses what can be done about problems, within stakeholders’ control, to […]
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Incremental improvements
An insightful quote from Professor Quentin Grafton’s interview on the water-food-energy nexus and addressing wicked problems.
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