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Assessing the hydrological processes of high Andean ecosystems

By: Walter Martín Leyva Molina on 20th Feb 2020

Since 2015, the Agua-Andes Program of Centro de Competencias del Agua (PAA-CCA) and Imperial College London (ICL) have been conducting scientific projects on water resources in the Andean region under the direction of Dr. Bram Willems (PAA-CCA) and Dr.... Read more »

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‘Environment and society in the Peruvian Andes’ workshop takes place in Bristol

By: Rossi Taboada on 17th Feb 2020

On 28-30 January 2020, researchers from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), Centro de Competencias del Agua (CCA), University of Bristol and Imperial College London (ICL), plus indigenous leaders and other interested academics, came together for... Read more »

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Comparative catchment-scale water management approaches in global developing drylands zones

By: Mark Everard on 10th Feb 2020

The upland region of Ayacucho in Peru, the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso, and the state of Rajasthan in India have many differences. They span three continents, differ in altitude, and have different trajectories of development due variously to... Read more »

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Rebuilding the Earth

By: Mark Everard on 4th Feb 2020

The many IWSN blogposts I have written have an underpinning theme: getting ecosystems working and embedding their diverse and mainly unappreciated values into the full spectrum of societal policy and practice. As a culmination (to date) of that vision... Read more »

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South African PhD hydrology student reflects on IWSN-funded UK visit

By: Mlungisi Shabalala on 16th Jan 2020

I am a PhD hydrology student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN, South Africa). Last year, I visited the UK for two months as part of the Advanced Professional and Academic Development Program which is led by the Institute... Read more »

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The wrong trees in the wrong places

By: Mark Everard on 9th Jan 2020

The right trees in the right places can do a great deal of good supporting the livelihoods of people and the integrity and functioning of the ecosystems upon which they depend. Indeed, trees play pivotal roles in the water... Read more »

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Presenting project results at the International Symposium ‘The mountains: Our future’

By: Rossi Taboada on 19th Dec 2019

Three researchers from the Centro de Competencias del Agua (CCA) presented posters at the International Symposium ‘The mountains: Our future’, organized by the National Institute of Glaciers and Mountain Ecosystems (INAIGEM) at the Convention Center of the Provincial Municipality... Read more »

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Strengthening local capacities for the sustainable management of the high Andean wetlands of Ayacucho, Peru

By: Rossi Taboada on 28th Nov 2019

On 6 November, researchers from the Centro de Competencias del Agua, the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia and the University of the West of England, presented results from the research project Strengthening local capacities for the sustainable management of Andean... Read more »

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Robert Varady discusses the threats to science at the Third Budapest Water Forum

By: Robert G. Varady on 7th Nov 2019

Some background The third iteration of the triennial Budapest Water Summit took place on 15-17 October. I’ve attended all three and served on the organizing committee of the first of these events in 2013. Budapest is the city of... Read more »

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IWSN and HWISE in the Andes

By: Rossi Taboada (Centro de Competencias del Agua, Peru) and Chad Staddon (UWE, Bristol) on 5th Sep 2019

As part of a larger project being jointly developed by the International Water Security Network (IWSN) and the Centro de Competencias del Agua (CCA), the 12 questions underpinning the household water insecurity index developed by the HWISE Consortium were... Read more »

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