Topic: Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience

Integrating climate adaptation, water governance and conflict management policies in lake riparian zones: Insights from African drylands

As river basin authorities and national governments develop policies to achieve sustainable development outcomes, conflicting signals between existing policies are undermining cross-thematic integrative modes of policy planning. This raises fundamental questions over how coherent portfolios of policy interventions across vital themes can best be advanced and managed. Taking the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) as an […]

“Hold Back The River: Fellowship reflections” by Rosalind Bark

On 27th June, CCCEP Associate and European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow,  Rosalind Bark, gave her end of Fellowship Seminar entitled “Hold Back The River: Fellowship reflections”.  Her project, Catchments under Pressure: Ecosystem Service Solutions (CuPESS), comprised six interlinked inquiries to assess opportunities for, and mechanisms to, mainstream natural flood risk management in U.K. catchments.

Identifying opportunities for coherence between the intended Nationally Determined Contributions and the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of ECOWAS member states

While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) are two of the most important policy frameworks of the twenty-first century so far, the interactions and trade-offs between them have not yet been analysed, especially in sub-Saharan African countries. Such analyses are of paramount importance if member states of the Economic Community […]