Indonesia’s key exports and the importance of water stewardship
The Alliance for Water Stewardship is involved in a number of demonstration projects across Indonesia. Here is why the success of these projects in modelling good water stewardship is important to the country.
Continue readingPlanning with water: part two
Planning with Water is a six-part series that looks toward building a new value premise and societal change around water as the most valuable commodity on earth, essential to our future survival.
Continue readingWhat the world’s worsening water crisis needs — another conference
By Dean Muruven, WWF Everywhere you look, cities and countries are battling to cope with too much water or too little. From floods in Queensland to South Africa’s national drought disaster, the warning signs about the impacts of our warming world are flashing. Companies and governments are paying more attention to water risk but it […]
Continue readingHow to extract water from thin air
By Beata Sochacka, IWCAN In an interview, Zenia Tata, from XPRIZE discussed the importance of funding innovation and the Water Abundance XPRIZE launched to support the development of technologies that harvest water from thin air. She suggested that: “Perception is the big deal in the WASH sector. One of the big challenges when unpacking issues about atmospheric water […]
Continue readingStrategic 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 […]
Continue readingLearning 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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A quote from Professor Quentin Grafton’s interview about the water-food-energy nexus and addressing wicked problems.
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A quote from Professor Quentin Grafton’s interview about the water-food-energy nexus and addressing wicked problems.
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An insightful quote from Professor Quentin Grafton’s interview on the water-food-energy nexus and addressing wicked problems.
Continue readingProfessor Quentin Grafton interview: the water-food-energy nexus and addressing wicked problems
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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